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Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti was born in London, one of four children of Italian parents. She is best known for her ballads and her mystic religious lyrics. Her poetry is marked by symbolism and intense feeling...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Christmas
A Christmas Carol
by George Wither
A Visit from Saint Nicholas
by Clement Clark Moore
Christmas Bells
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christmas Trees
by Robert Frost
Noël
by Anne Porter
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
by John Milton
The Mahogany Tree
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Oxen
by Thomas Hardy
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487)
by Emily Dickinson
The Shivering Beggar
by Robert Graves
Toward the Winter Solstice
by Timothy Steele
Related Prose
Poems about Christmas
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A Christmas Carol  
by Christina Rossetti

In The bleak mid-winter
Frosty winds made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter,
Long ago.

Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When he comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty
Jesus Christ.






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