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"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 ...
A merry Christmas-day. – L.A. Franc. 24. When Santa Claus Comes. A good time is coming, I wish it were here, The very best time in the whole of the year; I’m counting each day on my fingers ...
"Christmas Bells", a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that is the basis for the Christmas carol "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"
His son Charles was injured during the war, [86] and he wrote the poem "Christmas Bells", later the basis of the carol I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day. He wrote in his journal in 1878: "I have only one desire; and that is for harmony, and a frank and honest understanding between North and South". [87]
Henry van Dyke originally wrote these lyrics in 1907 as a poem entitled "Hymn of Joy," and with the words set to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," the song ... "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" by ...
“Christmas Bells,” the 1863 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, inspired this classic. ... The narrator is listening to the peal of the bells on Christmas Day during the Civil War and feels ...
The poem was set to the tune "Waltham" by John Baptiste Calkin sometime after 1872 and has since been received into the established library of Christmas carols as "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day". The carol version does not include two stanzas from the original poem that focused on the war. [11] [12]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem "Christmas Bells" after his son was wounded at the Battle of New Hope Church, VA during the Mine Run Campaign on November 27, 1863. Longfellow received word of his son's injuries on December 1 of that year, and Charles was brought home on December 8. The poem was written during Charles Appleton ...