Love Poems – Page 4200

Up on the House-Top

Up on the house-top reindeer pause,
Out jumps good old Santa Claus;
Down through the chimney with lots of toys, …

Benjamin Hanby English
Christmas Greetings from a Fairy to a Child

Lady dear, if Fairies may
For a moment lay aside
Cunning tricks and elfish play, …

Lewis Carroll English
Carol of the Field Mice

Villagers all, this frosty tide,
Let your doors swing open wide,
Though wind may follow, and snow beside, …

Kenneth Grahame English
The Magi

Now as at all times I can see in the mind’s eye,
In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones
Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky …

William Butler Yeats English
Moonless Darkness Stands Between

Moonless darkness stands between.
Past, the Past, no more be seen!
But the Bethlehem-star may lead me …

Gerard Manley Hopkins English
Christmas Carol

The kings they came from out the south,
All dressed in ermine fine;
They bore Him gold and chrysoprase, …

Sara Teasdale English
Some Say That Ever ’Gainst That Season

Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated,
This bird of dawning singeth all night long: …

William Shakespeare English
Here We Come A-Wassailing

Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green;
Here we come a-wand’ring …

English
Alle Jahre wieder

Alle Jahre wieder
Kommt das Christuskind
Auf die Erde nieder, …

Wilhelm Hey German
Ihr Kinderlein, kommet

Ihr Kinderlein, kommet, o kommet doch all!
Zur Krippe her kommet in Betlehems Stall
und seht, was in dieser hochheiligen Nacht …

Christoph von Schmid German