English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. Christmas Day. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти)

Christmas Day

A baby is a harmless thing
  And wins our hearts with one accord,
And Flower of Babies was their King,
  Jesus Christ our Lord:
Lily of lilies He
Upon His Mother’s knee;
Rose of roses, soon to be
Crowned with thorns on leafless tree.

A lamb is innocent and mild
  And merry on the soft green sod;
And Jesus Christ, the Undefiled,
  Is the Lamb of God:
Only spotless He
Upon His Mother’s knee;
White and ruddy, soon to be
Sacrificed for you and me.

Nay, lamb is not so sweet a word,
  Nor lily half so pure a name;
Another name our hearts hath stirred,
  Kindling them to flame:
“Jesus” certainly
Is music and melody:
Heart with heart in harmony
Carol we and worship we.

Christina Georgina Rossetti’s other poems:

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

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

John Keble (Джон Кибл) Christmas Day (“What sudden blaze of song”)

Hartley Coleridge (Хартли Кольридж) Christmas Day (“WAS it a fancy, bred of vagrant guess”)

Charles Kingsley (Чарльз Кингсли) Christmas Day (“How will it dawn, the coming Christmas Day?”) Eversley, 1868

Henry White (Генри Уайт) Christmas Day (“Yet once more, and once more, awake, my Harp”)

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