Fifty Christmas Poems for Children

HE came all so still


Where His mother was,


As dew in April


That falleth on the grass.


He came all so still


To His mother's bower,


As dew in April


That falleth on the flower.


He came all so still


Where His mother lay,


As dew in April


That falleth on the spray.


Mother and maiden


Was never none but she;


Well may such a lady


God's mother be.


WHEN Christ the Babe was born,


Full many a little lamb


Upon the wintry hills forlorn


Was nestled near its dam:


And, waking or asleep,


Upon His Mother's breast,


For love of her, each mother-sheep


And baby-lamb He blessed.


STAR high


Baby low:


'Twixt the two


Wise men go;


Find the baby,


Grasp the star


Heirs of all things


Near and far!


LITTLE one, who straight hast come


Down the heavenly stair,


Tell us all about your home,


And the father there."


"He is such a one as I


Like as like can be.


Do his will, and, by and by,


Home and him you'll see."