Here are a few snippets from classic Chrismtas poems that would make excellent themes for your homemade Christmas cards:

• Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
  Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid;
  Star of the East, the horizon adorning,
  Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
  ~ Reginald Heber

Lo, now is come our joyful feast!
Let every man be jolly,
Each room with ivy leaves is drest,
And every post with holly.
Now all our neighbour’s chimneys smoke,
And Christmas blocks are burning;
Their ovens they with baked meats choke
And all their spits are turning.
Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if, for cold, it hap to die,
We’ll bury it in a Christmas pie,
And evermore be merry.
~ George Wither

• We rejoice in the light,
  And we echo the song
  That comes down through the night
  From the heavenly throng.
  Ay! we shout to the lovely evangel they bring,
  And we greet in his cradle our Saviour and King.
  ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland

As fits the holy Christmas birth,
Be this, good friends, our carol still:
Be peace on earth, be peace on earth,
To men of gentle will.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray

• At Christmas play and make good cheer,
  For Christmas comes but once a year.
  ~ Thomas Tusser

Joy rose within her, like a summer’s morn;
Peace, Peace on Earth! the Prince of Peace is born.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• When Christmas comes about again 
  O then I shall have money; 
  I’ll hoard it up, and box it all, 
  I’ll give it to my honey.
  ~ Henry Carey

That evening her best fare 
Did she bring forth, and all together sat 
Like happy people round a Christmas fire.
~ William Wordsworth, Michael

Merry Christmas!!!

star lit, star led
by M Ryan Taylor

star lit
points upon
a milky wheel
whirling me dizzy

far flung
flecks of light,
willow wisp guides,
shepherding where?

one star
tethering
from the center,
heart of the courses

ever
fixing mark
keeping the sky
from flying apart

round and round and round and round
swimming in choices
on highways of light
round and round and round and round
old new star,
defining the compass,
making sense of it all

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