Rossetti’s “Love Came Down at Christmas” has simple verses that equate the birth of Jesus Christ as love sent from heaven itself, but it’s this simplicity that makes this Christmas poem so ...

In 2009, my poem was written from the perspective of Jesus becoming incarnate — becoming ... of Israel from birth. Lying in a cave; a manger, in the world I had made and loved, I was worshiped ...

In a 1956 Atlantic issue showcasing poetry, cummings offered a modernist take on the familiar story of Jesus’s birth. Over the past 160 years, The Atlantic has published the work of some of the ...

Though they always are, even in, especially in, the origin story of Jesus. This poem reminds me that I was reading a book of poems in the hospital room while my wife gave birth to our first son ...

Christmas carols tend to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, but over the years ... Here is a selection of 12 great Christmas poems. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News ...

Two decades before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the Roman poet Virgil ended his epic poem of Roman origins, the “Aeneid,” with an unforgettable image of violence. In the final lines of the ...

During this season when the world is celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ with related religious festivities it is relevant to trace briefly how the poetry, prose, and hymns of Christ in Sinhala, ...

That the Birth of Jesus made a deep and lasting impression on Tagore is evident from his poem, ‘The Child’. It is the only major poem Tagore composed in English in July 1930 after his return from the ...

Just after the First World War, William Butler Yeats wrote his poem The Second Coming ... gave himself to us in the person of the infant Jesus, whose destiny was not command and control but ...