{"id":17798,"date":"2016-12-25T06:14:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T05:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17798"},"modified":"2016-12-25T06:14:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T05:14:45","slug":"christmas-bells-from-poets-corner-tithe-farm-estate-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=17798","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Bells – from Poets Corner (Tithe Farm Estate, Abingdon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Christmas
\nFrom Christmas Bells<\/strong>
\nby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/strong><\/p>\n

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
\nTheir old, familiar carols play,
\nAnd wild and sweet
\nThe words repeat
\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!<\/p>\n

\"Christmas
\nFrom In Memorium<\/strong> by Alfred Lord Tennyson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky.
\nRing out the old, ring in the new,
\nThe flying cloud, the frosty light;
\nRing, happy bells, across the snow.
\nThe year is dying in the night;
\nThe year is going, let him go;
\nRing out, wild bells, and let him die
\nRing out the false, ring in the true.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas
\nFrom Noel Christmas Eve<\/strong> by Robert Bridges<\/strong>
\n…
\nTonight I can’t help thinking of those towers (the bell towers)
\nAnd I pray unto God for their souls and the souls of the world
\nThat stand in towers and ring their bells tonight,
\nArms lifted, clutching rattling ropes that race
\nInto dark above the mad and romping din
\nThat to me heard afar is starry music<\/p>\n

\"Christmas
\nFrom Christmas Eve at Sea<\/strong> by John Masefield<\/strong>
\n…
\nThe moon goes nodding down the west,
\nThe drowsy helmsman strikes the bell;
\nRex Judaorum natus est,
\nI charge you, brothers, sing Nowell, Nowell,
\nRex Judaorum natus est<\/p>\n

\"Christmas
\nFrom Minstrels a Christmas Poem<\/strong>
\nby William Wordsworth<\/strong><\/p>\n

The minstrels played their Christmas tune
\nTo-night beneath my cottage-eaves;
\nWhile, smitten by a lofty moon,
\nThe encircling laurels, thick with leaves,
\nGave back a rich and dazzling sheen,
\nThat overpowered their natural green.
\n\u2026
\nAnd who but listened?–till was paid
\nRespect to every inmate’s claim,
\nThe greeting given, the music played
\nIn honour of each household name,
\nDuly pronounced with lusty call,
\nAnd “Merry Christmas” wished to all.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas
\nFrom ‘A Christmas Carol<\/strong>‘ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joy rises in me, like a summer’s morn:
\nPeace, Peace on Earth! The Prince of Peace is born!<\/p>\n

(First posted on the Tithe Farm and Ladygrove Forum – Dec 25th 2003)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! From In Memorium by Alfred Lord Tennyson Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky. Ring out the old, ring in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}