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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...