Gaby Morgan

Book 257 - Edited by Gaby Morgan - Christmas Poems

A wonderful selection of old poems, new poems, Christmas carols and Christmas songs are beautifully presented in a book of all your festive favourites.

Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965) was an English author of children’s poems…stories…plays and satires. Perhaps best known as the author of the timeless and forever wonderful ‘Morning had broken’…a long time favourite of post primary assemblies in the 1980s as the music teacher could show more play it and the students knew the words.

Stephen Fry put her writings up there with AA Milne and Lewis Caroll…but I confess…I hadn’t heard of her…her work yes…but not her.

Worth reading about her life…her faith…and her love for all things literary.

I bring her up simply to put the poem I have reproduced below from this lovely book into context…

‘Mary’s Burden’ is one of those poems that has layer upon layer for the Christian and I won’t insult your intelligence here by explaining it to you…instead…I ask to to mull over…contemplate…meditate…pray even on the last lines of verses 2, 3 and the whole of verse 4.

Never a burden to His mother…carried a burden for the whole world.

Mary’s Burden

My Baby, my Burden,
Tomorrow the morn
I shall go lighter
And you will be born.

I shall go lighter,
But heavier too
For seeing the burden
That falls upon you.

The burden of love,
The burden of pain,
I'll see you bear both
Among men once again.

Tomorrow you'll bear it
Your burden alone,
Tonight you've no burden
That is not my own

My Baby, my Burden,
Tomorrow the morn
I shall go lighter
And you will be born. show less

This poetry book to celebrate National Poetry Day 2016 with poems on the theme of messages from Matt Goodfellow, Rachel McCrum, Deborah Alma, Brian Moses, Liz Brownlee, Michaela Morgan, Jan Dean, Paul Cookson, Roger Stevens, Joseph Coelho, Joshua Seigal, Rachel Rooney, Sophie Herxheimer and Sally Crabtree.

Along with favourite poetry they gaves tips how to write a poetry to budding writer and what techniques to use and what the inspiration behind the particular poetry they came up with in the show more book

National Poetry Day is the annual mass celebration of poetry and all things poetical, a special day on which all are invited to discover and share the enjoyment of poems.A great little anthology for people who like a lot of variety in their poetry. A combination of modern works by current poets, alongside their own choices of classic poems which fit the theme of 'messages', and which compliment the sentiments or tone of their own work. We can call it open poetry recitation with all the favourite in one book come together and make it a good read show less

It's filled with lots of chuckles and laughs