Dad’s favorite Christmas hymn was, “I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day,” because his service during the war had made the words even more meaningful to him. I think of him every year when this song is ...

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, and mild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of ...

“Christmas Bells,” was written over 150 years ago in a time much darker and more divided than we can comprehend: the bleak days of the Civil War. Written on Christmas Day 1863 by Henry ...

"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." Modern readers living in a post-women's rights world shouldn't take offense at the "good will to men." The poem takes the reader on a journey from how the ...

So “Resignation” lectures us, its depersonalized “we.” Today’s Poem of the Day, “Christmas Bells,” is on every level a better and more interesting poem than “Resignation.” As the bells ring out for ...

“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” based on an 1863 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is a truly unusual Christmas song. Instead of the expected Christmas joy and mirth, the lyric forms a ...

and his "Christmas Bells" poem that became the popular Christmas carol "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." Through the Fathom Events website, tickets are available for showings at Penn Cinema ...

Lancaster County-based Sight & Sound Ministries’ first film, “I Heard the Bells,” grossed ... events that led him to write the poem "Christmas Bells," which would become the beloved ...