English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. A Christmas Carol. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти)

A Christmas Carol

In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind 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.


Enough for Him whom cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him whom angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.


Angels and archangels
May have gathered there.
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air,
But only His mother
In her maiden bliss
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.


What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part, -
Yet what I can I give Him,
Give my heart.

Christina Georgina Rossetti’s other poems:

1. A Testimony
2. Repining
3. Maiden May
4. Twice
5. The Convent Threshold

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Samuel Coleridge (Сэмюэл Кольридж) A Christmas Carol (“The shepherds went their hasty way”)

Gilbert Chesterton (Гилберт Честертон) A Christmas Carol (“The Christ-child lay on Mary’s lap”)

Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) A Christmas Carol (“Hark! In the air, around, above”)

Algernon Swinburne (Алджернон Суинбёрн) A Christmas Carol (“THREE DAMSELS in the queen’s chamber”)

William McGonagall (Уильям Макгонаголл) A Christmas Carol (“Welcome, sweet Christmas, blest be the morn”)

George Wither (Джордж Уидер) A Christmas Carol (“So now is come our joyful’st feast”)

Josiah Holland (Джозайя Холланд) A Christmas Carol (“There’s a song in the air!”)

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