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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Гилберт Кит Честертон)


A Christmas Carol


The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap,
His hair was like a light.
(O weary, weary were the world,
But here is all aright.)

The Christ-child lay on Mary's breast
His hair was like a star.
(O stern and cunning are the kings,
But here the true hearts are.)

The Christ-child lay on Mary's heart,
His hair was like a fire.
(O weary, weary is the world,
But here the world's desire.)

The Christ-child stood on Mary's knee,
His hair was like a crown,
And all the flowers looked up at Him,
And all the stars looked down


'A Christmas Carol' poem

I

The shepherds went their hasty way,
And found the lowly stable-shed
Where the Virgin-Mother lay:
And now they checked their eager tread,
For to the Babe, that at her bosom clung,
A Mother's song the Virgin-Mother sung.

II

They told her how a glorious light,
Streaming from a heavenly throng.
Around them shone, suspending night!
While sweeter than a mother's song,
Blest Angels heralded the Savior's birth,
Glory to God on high! and Peace on Earth.

III

She listened to the tale divine,
And closer still the Babe she pressed:
And while she cried, the Babe is mine!
The milk rushed faster to her breast:
Joy rose within her, like a summer's morn;
Peace, Peace on Earth! the Prince of Peace is born.

IV

Thou Mother of the Prince of Peace,
Poor, simple, and of low estate!
That strife should vanish, battle cease,
O why should this thy soul elate?
Sweet Music's loudest note, the Poet's story,
Didst thou ne'er love to hear of fame and glory?

V

And is not War a youthful king,
A stately Hero clad in mail?
Beneath his footsteps laurels spring;
Him Earth's majestic monarchs hail
Their friends, their playmate! and his bold bright eye
Compels the maiden's love-confessing sigh.

VI

Tell this in some more courtly scene,
To maids and youths in robes of state!
I am a woman poor and mean,
And wherefore is my soul elate.
War is a ruffian, all with guilt defiled,
That from the aged father's tears his child!

VII

A murderous fiend, by fiends adored,
He kills the sire and starves the son;
The husband kills, and from her board
Steals all his widow's toil had won;
Plunders God's world of beauty; rends away
All safety from the night, all comfort from the day.

VIII

Then wisely is my soul elate,
That strife should vanish, battle cease:
I'm poor and of low estate,
The Mother of the Prince of Peace.
Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn:
Peace, Peace on Earth! The Prince of Peace is born! 



Gilbert Keith Chesterton's other poems:
  1. АнгличанинThe Englishman
  2. The New Freethinker
  3. Cyclopean
  4. The Holy of Holies
  5. Tribute to Gladstone


Poems of another poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

  • Samuel Coleridge (Сэмюэл Кольридж) A Christmas Carol ("The shepherds went their hasty way")
  • Christina Rossetti (Кристина Россетти) A Christmas Carol ("In the bleak mid-winter")
  • Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) A Christmas Carol ("Hark! In the air, around, above")
  • Algernon Swinburne (Алджернон Суинбёрн) A Christmas Carol ("THREE DAMSELS in the queen’s chamber")
  • William McGonagall (Уильям Макгонаголл) A Christmas Carol ("Welcome, sweet Christmas, blest be the morn")
  • Charles Kingsley (Чарльз Кингсли) A Christmas Carol ("It chanced upon the merry merry Christmas eve") Eversley, 1849
  • George Wither (Джордж Уидер) A Christmas Carol ("So now is come our joyful'st feast")
  • Josiah Holland (Джозайя Холланд) A Christmas Carol ("There’s a song in the air!")

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