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Subject: MAGI
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First Line: We saw the light shine out a-far
Last Line: The star of christmas morning
Subject(s): Christmas;magi; "nativity, The;


A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherds had an angel
Last Line: Through all the heavenly height.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Grandchildren; Magi; Grandsons; Granddaughters


BALLAD OF KINGS' GIFTS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the road a white star laid
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Magi


BALTHAZAR, MELCHIO AND JASPER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the blosme sprang a thorn
Subject(s): Magi


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kings they came from out the south
Last Line: Before the song was done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Magi; Nativity, The


DAVID IN HEAVEN, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where in white the saints see light
Subject(s): Christmas; Magi


FLOWERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whence are they? Who hath piloted
Last Line: The magi and the star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Flowers; Magi


GIFT (2), by LAURA SPENCER PORTOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caspar, melchior, balthazar, %these are they who followed the star
Last Line: These things I suspect; but sure I am %the litle lord christ preferred the lamb
Subject(s): Magi


GIFTS, by HELEN WIEAND COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three kings there were from orient who came
Last Line: Bring that of which they have the chiefest, love.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Magi; Nativity, The


HOW BALTHAZAR THE KING WENT DOWN INTO EGYPT, by FREDERICK AUGUSTUS DIXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nilus! Nilus! And befoer them rolled
Subject(s): Magi


HYMN OF THE THREE EASTERN MAGI, ADORING OUR SAVIOUR, by ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From those blessed regions where the sun displays
Subject(s): Magi


JOURNEY OF THE MAGI, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A cold coming we had of it
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi; Estrangement; Outcasts; Nativity, The


JOURNEY OF THE MAGI, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A cold coming we had of it
Last Line: With an alien people clutching their gods. %I should be glad of another death
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi


KINGS FROM THE EAST, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear children,' they asked in every town
Subject(s): Magi


LULLABY IN BETHLEHEM, by HENRY HOWARTH BASHFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There hath come an host to see thee
Last Line: Baby dear.
Subject(s): Magi


MAGI, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The abstracts hover like dull angels:
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Magi


OUT OF THE ORIENT, CRYSTAL SKIES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Magi


SONG OF THE WISE MEN, by EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do you not see the christmas star
Subject(s): Magi


THE BALLAD OF THE CROSS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Melchior, gaspar, balthazar
Last Line: Between her heart and his!
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Magi


THE KINGS OF THE EAST, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kings of the east are riding
Last Line: The child-face of a star.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Magi; Nativity, The


THE MAGI, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye
Last Line: The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Magi; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE MASQUE OF THE MAGI, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Three kings have come to bethlehem
Last Line: His wondering mother sings.
Subject(s): Magi


THE THREE KINGS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three kings came riding from far away, / melchior and gaspar and baltasar
Last Line: And returned to their homes by another way.
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Magi; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE THREE KINGS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the star in the east was lit to shine
Last Line: And laid in the manger on christmas morn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Christmas; Magi; Nativity, The


THE THREE KINGS [OF COLOGNE], by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From out cologne there came three kings
Last Line: My only tribute, christ, my king!
Subject(s): Christmas; Magi; Nativity, The


THE THREE WISE MEN, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I came from tigris' sandy plain
Last Line: Where christ himself could find no home.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Magi; Nativity, The


THREE KINGS' SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The magi came out of the orient land
Last Line: "right glad, then, were those three"
Subject(s): Christmas;magi; "nativity, The;


THREE WISE KINGS, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: To bethlehem town in the long ago
Subject(s): Christmas; Magi


WISE MEN SEEKING JESUS, by JAMES THOMAS EAST    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Magi; Religion