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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHRISTMASSE DAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT First Line: Wonders birthday / which maks't decembers face Last Line: It selfe more full on this contracting day. Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary | |||
WONDERS Birthday Which maks't Decembers face Fairer then May, And bidst ye Spring give place To fresher Winter, in whose hardie Snow A Flowre more sweet then ye wholl Spring doth grow. For Winter now A Virgin Plant espies Which all his snow Could never equalize: More white, more chast is shee, yet fertile too: The King of Miracles would have it so. For Hee it was Who would be borne below And find a place Amongst poor Us to grow: Him selfe He planted in our Dust, that Hee Might be as true a Mortall Thing as wee. That He should get A Birth all clean & pure, Him selfe He set, And by that Art was sure. Proud flesh corrupts & staine's ye Seed we sow: He, planted by his Spirit will spotlesse grow. Virginitie His Father vaunteth not Though glorious He So great a Son hath got. Wherfore Heavn orders that a Virgin be The Lilly-Mother of his Puritie. Upon ye white Church-wall oftimes have I Observ'd ye Light, Which darting from ye Skie Peirce'd ye unbroken Glasse, & wth it brought The orient colours in ye Window wrought. So from his sphear The Lord of Light doth come, And passing here His chrystall Mothers womb, Leaves her intirely whole, yet brings away Her perfect Image, borne as Man to Day He who did wear Gods radiant boundlesse Forme Shrinks Himselfe heer Into a simple worme. Heavn's moulded up in Earth, Eternity Grasp'd in a span of Time doth bounded ly. All Paradise Collected in one Bud Doth sweetly rise From its fair Virgin bed: Omnipotence an Infants shape puts on: Immensitie becomes a Little One. But onely Love Would not thus scanted be But stoutly strove 'Gainst this Conspiracie Of strange Epitomies, & did display It selfe more full on this contracting Day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MADONNA by KATHARINE LEE BATES BALLADE TO OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA by HILAIRE BELLOC OUR LORD AND OUR LADY by HILAIRE BELLOC PLASTIC BEATITUDE by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SONG OF MARY by LUCILLE CLIFTON |
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