Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DISAPPOINTED CAROL SINGERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, must we not sing our christmas hymn Last Line: Comes but once a year, you know. Subject(s): Christmas Carols | ||||||||
OH, must we not sing our Christmas hymn, And will you not hear our song? With joyous voices, but with weary limb, We have roamed the whole day long! We have thought of the merry Christmas time For many a week before, And have gleefully learned our Christmas rhyme To carol at your doo; There are no merry larks to wake you now, No blackbirds in woody dell; The nightingale loves not the leafless bough, The humming bee sleeps in his cell. Oh, winter is gloomy and dark enough, And must it be silent too? Are the chorus of winds and the storm-song rough The only sweet music for you? But we are the birds of the winter day, When all else is dark and still; Then, lady, send us not all away, And with sorrow our eager hearts fill. Oh, do not thus wave your beautiful hand, And bid us unheard to go; For the carolling time of our little band Comes but once a year, you know. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY (2) by JOHN BYROM A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1) by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON CHRISTMAS CAROL by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL by ROBERT HERRICK A CHRISTMAS CAROL by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND THREE KINGS OF ORIENT by JOHN HENRY HOPKINS JR. CHRISTMAS BELLS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I SAW THREE SHIPS by MOTHER GOOSE A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI CONSECRATION HYMN by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL I DID THIS FOR THEE! WHAT HAST THOU DONE FOR ME? by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL A BIRTHDAY GREETING TO MY FATHER, 1860 by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL |
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