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The Lord who said: Let there be light! He helped you in the harder fight, he stood with consolation and confidence, protective at your side. Faith in his holy word was your defense, your shield, your haven, so that you had to win. Hail, now immortality crowns you, pious hero, with glory. Hail to you, hail to us forever.
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn! Fall on your knees! O hear the angel voices! O night divine, O night when Christ was born! O night divine! O night, O night divine! Led by the light of faith serenely beaming, With glowing hearts by His cradle we stand. So led by light of a star sweetly gleaming, Here came the wise men from the orient ...
In 1840—a hundred years after the publication of Hymns and Sacred Poems—Mendelssohn composed a cantata to commemorate Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type, and it is music from this cantata, adapted by the English musician William H. Cummings to fit the lyrics of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", that is used for the carol today.
Yonder shines the infant light: Refrain. Sages, leave your contemplations, Brighter visions beam afar; Seek the great Desire of nations, Ye have seen his natal star: Refrain. Saints before the altar bending, Watching long in hope and fear, Suddenly the Lord, descending, In his temple shall appear. Refrain. Sinners, wrung with true repentance,
Glassed in a sea of light, Where everlasting waves Reflect his throne,--the Infinite! Who lives,--and loves--and saves. Crown him the Lord of heaven! One with the Father known,--And the blest Spirit, through him given From yonder triune throne! All hail! Redeemer,--Hail! For Thou hast died for me; Thy praise shall never, never fail
The original text is a pastoral love poem spoken from the point of view of a shepherdess herding her ewes ("yowes"), who has a romantic meeting with a shepherd lad. Burns's revised version is less explicit about the identity of the narrator, but follows a similar theme of love amid the beauty of nature.
"Locksley Hall" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of Poems. It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor upon coming to his childhood home, an apparently fictional Locksley Hall, though in fact Tennyson was a guest of the Arundel family in their stately home named Loxley Hall, in Staffordshire, where he spent much of his time writing whilst on ...
Shelley wrote a number of poems devoted to Jane including With a Guitar, To Jane, One Word is Too Often Profaned, To Jane: The Invitation, To Jane: The Recollection and To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling. [2] In One Word is Too Often Profaned, Shelley rejects the use of the word Love to describe his relationship with Jane. He says that this ...