Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography First Line: How hushed they were in heaven that / night Last Line: To man it seemed a star. Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Heaven; Stars; Nativity, The; Paradise | ||||||||
HOW hushed they were in Heaven that night, How lightly all the angels went, How dumb the singing spheres beneath Their many-candled tent! How silent all the drifting throng Of earth-freed spirits, strangely torn By dim and half-remembered pain And joy but newly born! The Glory in the Highest flamed With awful, unremembered ray But quiet as the falling dew Was He who went away. So swift He went, His passing left A low, bright door in Heaven ajar With God it was a covenant, To man it seemed a star. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX IF THIS IS PARADISE by DORIANNE LAUX A CHRISTMAS CHILD by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY |
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