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What Christmas Means to Me" is the name of several different Christmas songs. The most-covered version was written by Allen Story, Anna Gordy Gaye , and George Gordy. It has been recorded by many artists, including:
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" is a Christmas carol based on the 1863 poem "Christmas Bells" by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [1] The song tells of the narrator hearing Christmas bells during the American Civil War, but despairing that "hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men". After much anguish ...
Behold, the history and fun facts behind everyone's favorite festive poem, along with all of the words to read aloud to your family this Christmas. Related: 50 Best 'Nightmare Before Christmas' Quotes
Here are our 30 favorite Christmas poems. ... And I close my eyes and cross myself, and I pray ... And the Grinch put his hand to his ear.
George Michael and Ridgeley’s relentlessly cheery Christmas classic is celebrating its 40th anniversary (and a second year at No. 1 on the U.K. Christmas chart) with a commemorative EP, as well ...
It was one of two long poems included in Auden's book also titled For the Time Being, published in 1944; the other poem included in the book was "The Sea and the Mirror." The poem is a series of dramatic monologues spoken by the characters in the Christmas story and by choruses and a narrator. The characters all speak in modern diction, and the ...
The poem, written in 1908 and privately published in 1912, was part of a collection titled The Desert. It caught the public attention and the popular imagination when King George VI quoted it in his 1939 Christmas broadcast to the British Empire. The poem may have been brought to his attention by his wife, Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Consort). [1]
"I know the Christmas carols all by heart, my skull’s so full, it’s tearing me apart.” “Just because I cannot see it, doesn’t mean I can’t believe it.”