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 ...

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." 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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

the American Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the "Christmas Bells" lyrics on Christmas day 1863, "I heard the bells on Christmas Day …. Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Following the ...

Known as America’s Poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow leads an idyllic life – until the day his world is shattered ... But it’s the sound of Christmas morning that reignites the poet’s ...