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Subject: CHRISTMAS GIFTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the bleak mid-winter
Last Line: Give my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): My Gift
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Christmas Gifts; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology


A CHRISTMAS WISH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bright and blessed christmas day
Last Line: This is my christmas wish to thee!
Variant Title(s): Christmas Gifts: 3
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


BABY'S FIRST CHRISTMAS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They took away my bottle
Last Line: They make such noises in my ear.
Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Christmas Gifts; Infants; Nativity, The


BUNDLES, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bundle is a funny thing
Last Line: Now wouldn't it be much more fun %if shoppers carried thingsundone?
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Imagination


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stores wore christmas perfectly
Last Line: Morning after memory
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


CHRISTMAS EXCHANGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When bill gives me a book, I know
Last Line: So each gives twice - and that is pleasant - %to get the truly-wanted present
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


CHRISTMAS GIFTS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pope on christmas day
Last Line: To show us where christ was born!'
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Popes; Papacy


CHRISTMAS GIFTS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas gifts for thee
Last Line: Carols of praise for such christmas gifts.
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


CHRISTMAS MORN - THEN AND NOW, by RHODA HARTMAN FOGLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gray dawn, pale candlelight, and bubbling glee
Last Line: With mother -- heart and soul, what joys have we!
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR FIFTY YEARS AND OVER, by JUDITH STAHL VIORST    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He used to buy her lacy negligees
Last Line: He's bough a pillbox for her calcium. %she's ordered him the large-type new york times
Subject(s): Aging; Christmas Gifts; New York Times (newspaper)


CHRISTMAS SECRETS, by BERTHA E. NICHOLAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Say, fellers, how is it at your house'
Last Line: "will find our christmas secrets out."
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Secrets


MY GIVING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ask no merrier christmas
Last Line: That night.
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


PRESENTS, by MARCHETTE CHUTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wanted a rifle for christmas
Last Line: And they've given me mittens again!
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


THE CHRISTMAS RIFLE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the spine of the ridge
Last Line: The weight of his hand comes down on my shoulder.
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Rifles; Hunters


THE COMMON PROBLEM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I give this christmas?
Last Line: "what shall I give this christmas?"" (incidentally, ""what shall I get?"")"
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: DECEMBER, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glad christmas comes, and every hearth
Last Line: "to drink the christmas eve's ""good bye."
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; December; Toys; Nativity, The


WITH BEST WISHES, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glad christmas day once more has come
Last Line: "and a highly colored copy of ""that old sweetheart of mine."
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


WORK WANTED, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'd like to work for santa claus
Last Line: Jim.
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; December; Santa Claus; Toys; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint