English poem
'O! Christmas Day, Oh! happy day!
A foretaste from above, To him who hath a happy home And love returned from love!'
O! Christmas Day, O gloomy day, The barb in Memory's dart, To him who walks alone through Life, The desolate in heart.
1826.
More by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 'Batelier, Dit Lisette'
- 'Be, rather than be called, a child of God,'
- 'How seldom, friend! a good great man inherits
- 'Lest after this life it should prove my sad story
- 'Tis hard on Bagshot Heath to try
- 'Tis sweet to him who all the week
- 'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane!
- 'Twas my last waking thought, how it could be