Monday, April 18, 2011

Poetry Notebook: Poems My Grandmother Read at Christmas


Poems My Grandmother Read at Christmas

Selected by Max’s Grandmother

Description

Every year at Christmas, just before we started to eat, my Grandmother thought it was appropriate to read a poem instead of saying grace (we are atheists) and of course nobody was going to stop her. I recalled a few of those poems and asked her about the others she read (she keeps them LONG after Christmas) and now I’m sharing them with you.

Synopsis

Poems can bring people together, even more so than the holidays.

Poetry

Christmas Trees by: Robert Frost

Noël by: Anne Porter

The Mysctic's Christmas by: John Greenleaf Whittier

The Oxen by: Thomas Hardy

Mama, Come Back by: Nellie Wong

A Christmas Carol by: George Wither

The Thread of Life by: Christina Rosetti

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity by: John Milton

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