English Poetry. Josiah Gilbert Holland. A Christmas Carol. Джозайя Гилберт Холланд.

Josiah Gilbert Holland (Джозайя Гилберт Холланд)

A Christmas Carol

There’s a song in the air!
There’s a star in the sky!
There’s a mother’s deep prayer
And a baby’s low cry!
And the star rains its fire while the beautiful sing,
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King!

There’s a tumult of joy
O’er the wonderful birth,
For the virgin’s sweet Boy
is the Lord of the earth.
Ay! the star rains its fire while the beautiful sing,
For the manger of Bethlehem cradles a King!

In the light of that star
lie the ages impearled;
And that song from afar
Has swept over the world.
Every hearth is aflame, and the beautiful sing
In the homes of the nations that Jesus is King!

We rejoice in the light,
And we echo the song
That comes down through the night
From the heavenly throng.
Ay! we shout to the lovely evangel they bring,
And we greet in His cradle our Savior and King!

Josiah Gilbert Holland’s other poems:

1. A Song of Doubt
2. Persons
3. Cradle Song
4. God, Give us Men!
5. Daniel Gray

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”)

Christina Rossetti (Кристина Россетти) A Christmas Carol (“In the bleak mid-winter”)

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”)

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