poem Archives

The Christmas Tree

Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972) Put out the lights now!Look at the tree, the rough tree dazzledIn oriole plumes of flame,Tinselled with

Robert Brewster Beattie (1875-1946) To leave the old with a burst of song; To recall the right and forgive the

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,Seems nowhere to

William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) Lone Flower, hemmed in with snows and white as theyBut hardier far, once more I