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Christmas, Easter and New Year's Eve are heavily represented here
at Poets' Corner. Before you leave have a look at
Cornish Midsummer Bonfire Song
for a glimpse of a celebration that you've probably not participated in.
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Christmas Everywhere
by Phillips Brooks
christmas finds a place everywhere
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Valentine Song
by Robert Argyle Campbell
love is like a rose - thorns and all
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The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day
by Lydia Maria Child
Over the river and through the wood...
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Christmas Day
by Hartley Coleridge
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Jest 'Fore Christmas
by Eugene Field
jest 'fore christmas this boy's as good as he can be
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Landing of the Pilgrims
by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
on why the Pilgrims came to the Americas
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Easter Wings
by George Herbert
written to appear like a set of wings
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Redemption
by George Herbert
an allegory on Christ's death as propitiation for our sin
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Corinna's Going A-Maying
by Robert Herrick
Then, while time serves, and we are but decaying,
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.
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Loveliest of Trees
by A. E. Housman
cherry blossoms at Eastertide, a reason to cherish each year
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New Year's Morning
by Helen Hunt Jackson
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Easter Week
by Charles Kingsley
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On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
by John Milton
... this the happy morn
Wherin the Son of Heav'ns eternal King,
Our great redemption from above did bring;
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A Visit From St. Nicholas
by Clement C. Moore
'Twas the night before Christmas
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A Valentine
by Edgar Allen Poe
find the riddle in this poem
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New Year's Eve
by Robert W. Service
a sad tale for what should be a festive night
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The Passing of the Year
by Robert W. Service
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In the Workhouse: Christmas Day
by George R. Sims
a cheerless tale reminding us that not everyone's Christmas is a blessed time
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Amoretti Sonnet LXVIII
by Edmund Spenser
an Easter sonnet
Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day
Didst make thy triumph over death and sin
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May Day
by Sara Teasdale
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The Death of the Old Year
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
the years personified must die though we may grieve their passing
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Ring Out, Wild Bells
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
at the end of the year let go the failures of the past and embrace the promise of the future
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Christmas Cheer
by Thomas Tusser
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On Easter Day
by Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde
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A Christmas Carol
by George Wither
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Gloucestershire Wassailers' Song
an ancient song
a traditional Christmas drinking song
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Cornish Midsummer Bonfire Song
An ancient song sung during the ancient custom of lighting fires on Midsummer-eve
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