Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ANGEL'S SONG; CAROL, by EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS Poet's Biography First Line: It came upon the midnight clear Last Line: Which now the angels sing Variant Title(s): Peace On Earth Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology | ||||||||
IT came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold: "Peace to the earth, good-will to men From heaven's all-gracious King!" The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing. Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wing unfurled; And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on heavenly wing, And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing. Yet with the woes of sin and strife The world has suffered long; Beneath the angel-strain have rolled Two thousand years of wrong; And man, at war with man, hears not The love-song which they bring: O, hush the noise, ye men of strife, And hear the angels sing! And ye, beneath life's crushing load Whose forms are bending low; Who toil along the climbing way With painful steps and slow, -- Look now! for glad and golden hours Come swiftly on the wing; O, rest beside the weary road, And hear the angels sing. For lo! the days are hastening on, By prophet-bards foretold, When with the ever-circling years Comes round the age of gold; When Peace shall over all the earth Its ancient splendors fling, And the whole world send back the song Which now the angels sing | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY THE BIRTH SONG OF CHRIST by EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS |
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