O Holy Night!: Masterworks of Christmas Poetry

by Johann M. Moser

Book Overview

Gathered from twenty-eight centuries, ten languages, and sixty-four authors, here is a uniquely diverse and yet wondrously harmonious collection of voices that have joined in praise for the newborn... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918477247
• ISBN13: 9780918477248
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding

Quite simply the best and most complete collection of Christmas/Nativity poetry available. A wonderful gift that reminds us of the true meaning of Christmas. "A Child of the Snows" by Chesterton is my favorite: There is heard a hymn when the panes are dim, And never before or again, When the nights are strong with a darkness long, And the dark is alive with rain. Never we know but in sleet and in snow, The place where the great fires are, That the midst of the earth is a raging mirth And the heart of the earth a star. And at night we win to the ancient inn Where the child in the frost is furled, We follow the feet where all souls meet At the inn at the end of the world. The gods lie dead where the leaves lie red, For the flame of the sun is flown, The gods lie cold where the leaves lie gold, And a Child comes forth alone.

moser is a phenomenal poet and editor

deeply religious, deeply spiritual poems - from one the most intellectual poets and editors of poetry today.