The Banks o' Doon,Robert Burns 1759-1796, The Other Ayrshire Poet.

Ye flowery banks o' bonnie Doon,

How can ye blume sae fair!

How can ye chant, ye little birds,

And I sae fu' o' care!

Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird,

That sings upon the bough;

Thou minds me o' the happy days 

When my fause luve was true.

Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird,

That sings beside thy mate;

For sae I sat, and sae I sang, 

And wistna o' my fate.

Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon,

To see the woodbine twine;

And like a bird sang o' its luve,

And sae did I o, mine.

Wi' lightsome heart I pu,d a rose

Upon a morn in June;

And sae I flourish'd on the morn,

And sae was pu'd or' noon.

Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose

Upon its thorny tree;

but my fause luver staw my rose,

and left the thorn wi' me.

--Robert Burns

A Poet's Welcome to His Love-Begotten Daughter, Robert Burns 1759-1796

Thou's welcome, wean; mishanter fa' me,

If thoughts o' thee, or yet thy mammie,

Shall ever daunton me or awe me,

My sweet we lady,

Or if I blush when thou shalt ca' me

Tyta or daddie.

Tho' now they ca' me fornicator,

An' tease my name in countra clatter,

The mair they talk, I kend the better,

E'en let them clash;

An auld wife,s tongue's a feckless matter

To gie ane fash.

Welcome! my bonie, sweet, wee dochter,

Tho' ye come here a wee unsought for,

And tho' your comin' I hae fought for,

Baith kirk and queir;

Yet, by my faith, ye,re no unwrought for,

That I shall swear!

Sweet fruit o' monie a merry dint,

My funny toil is no a'tint,

Tho' thou cam to the warl' askient'

Which fools may scoff ar;

In my last plack thy part's be in't

The better ha'f o't.

Tho' I  should be the waur bestead,

Thou's be as braw and bienly clad,

And thy young years as nicely bred

wi' education,

Ass onie brat o; wedlock's bed,

In a; thy station.

Wee image o' my bonie lasie

As fatherly I kiss and daut thee,

As dear and near my heart I set thee

That's out o' hell.

Grant that thou may aye inherit

Thy Mither's person, grace an' merit,

An' thy poor, worthless daddy's spirit,

Without his failins,

'Twill please me mair to see thee heir it,

Than stockit mailens.

Fr if thou be what I wad hae thee,

And tak the counsel I shall gie thee

The cost nor shame o't, 

But be a loving father to thee,

And brag the name o't.

--Robbie Burns

Mona Lisa

                                                                     Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you

You're so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you?
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?

Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?

Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there and they die there
Are you warm, are you real Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art?
 Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa

                                                                  

The Lass That Made the Bed to Me--Robert Burns 1759-1796

When Januar' wind was blowing cauld,

As to the north I took my way,

The mirksome night did me enfold

I knew na whare to lodge till day:

By my gude luck a maid I met,

Just in the middle o' my care,

And Kindly she did me invite

To walk into a chamber fair.

I bow'd fu' low unto this maid,

And thank'd her for her courtesie;

I bow'd fu' low unto this maid

An bade her make a bed to me;

She made the bed baith large and wide,

Wi' twa white hands she spread it doun;

She put the cup to her rosy lips,

And drank-"young man, now sleep ye soun'."

Chorus- The bonie lass made the bed to me,

The braw lass made the bed to me,

I'll ne'er forget till the day I die,

The lass that made the bed to me.

She snatch'd the candle in her hand,

And frae my chamber went wi' speed;

But I call'd her quickly back again,

To lay some mair below my head,

And served me with due respect,

And, to salute her wi' a kis,

I put my arms about her neck.

Chorus:...

"Haud aff your hands, young man! she said,

"And dinna sae uncivil be;

Gif ye hae ony luve for me,

O wrang ma virginitie."

Her hair was like the links o' gowd,

Her teeth were like the ivorie,

Her cheeks like lilies dipt in wine,

The laass that made the bed to me.

Chorus-...

Her bosom was the driven snaw,

Twa drifted heaps sae fair to see;

Her limbs the polish'd marble stane,

The laass that made the bed to me.

I kiss'd her o'er and o'er again,

And aye she wist na what to say:

I laid her'teen me and the wa';

The lassie thocht na lang till day.

Chorus-...

Upon the morrow when we raise,

I thank'd her for her courtesie;

But aye she blush'd and aye she sigh'd,

And said, Alas, ye've ruin'd me."

I clasp'd her waist, and kiss'd her syne,

While the tear stood twinklin' in her e'e;

I said, "My lassie, dinna cry,

For ye aye shall make the bed to me."

Chorus-..
--Robert Burns

All the World's a Stage--William Shakespere

All the world's a stage

And all the men and women merely players;

 They have their exits and their enterances;

and one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Mewing and puking in the nurse's arms;

Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like a snail

Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,

 Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,

Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

seeking the bubbble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lin'd

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;

His youthful hose, well sav'd a world too wide

For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion;

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

--William Shakespere

Life Quotations To Remember And Think About

Your choice of quotation can make or break your next speech, presentation, report, greeting card, or even discussion.  Often controversial quotations will be the most used.


The goal of life is living;

 in agreement

 with Mother Nature.

The mind is everything; 

what you think,

 you become

--Gautama Buddha "Buddha" meaning "awakened one" or "enlightened one" is a title, not a name.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
--Voltaire

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves

--Sophocles


Even the words you use in normal conversations can affect how you feel; 
so avoid negative statements.
Think before you talk,
if you cannot put your thoughts out there in a kind,
 and supportive manner,
then don't say anything at all.

The reason for all the disease,

 famine,  starvation, storms and war-fare...

 is that it is Mother Natures way

 of getting back at Man;

 for his utter greed,
 and complete stupidity.

The best things in life are free.

Keep love in your heart. 

A life without it is like a sunless garden

 when the lowers are dead.

The consciousness of loving and being loved;

brings a warmth and richness to life

 that nothing else can bring.

-Oscar Wilde

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Life is a game boy.

Life is a game one plays

according to the rules.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more; it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

signifying nothing.

--William Shakespeare Macbeth 5.5

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

--Christopher Morley

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

--Emily Dickinson

Here's to a long life and a merry one

A quick death and an easy one

A pretty girl and an honest one

A cold beer and another one.

--Irish Saying

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
--Henry David Thoreau


Life is what happens to you
While youre busy making other plans.
--John Lennon


Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of drowsy men
William Shakespeare


Life is divided in to the horrible and the miserable.--Woody Allen


Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering-and it's all over much too soon.
--Woody Allen


The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties
and hold them in the right  scale of values.
--Norman Thomas


Life is a fatal  complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
--Oscar Wilde


Life is a zoo in a jungle.


The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.


Life is just a bowl of pits.
--Rodney Dangerfield


Life is just one damned thing after another.


Life is something that everyone should try at least once.


Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. 
Isaac Asimov


Life is a long lesson in humility.


Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.


Life is just a looking-glass,
 and what you see out there,
 you must first see inside you.


life isn't fair. 
It's just fairer than death,
That's all.


How  far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
--George Washington Carver


I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
Jack Handey




Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together; 
in the same direction.


Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint on it you  can.
--Danny Kaye


Where there is love there is life.
--Indira Gandhi


We must learn to live together as brothers or perish as fools.
--Martin Luthor King Jr.


If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day,
so I never have to live without you.
--A.A.Milne


The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents,
and the second half by our children.
--Clarence S. Darrow


The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved--
loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
--Victor Hugo


The purpose of life is a life with purpose.
--Robert Byrne


Life is like a coin.
 You can spend it any way you wish,
 but you only spend it once.
--Lillian Dickson


There is no wealth but life.
--John Ruskin


In three words,
  I can sum up everything i've learned about life.
It goes on.
--Robert Frost


Don't count the days, make the days count.
--Muhammad Ali


Strive not to be a success,
but rather to be of value.
--Albert Einstein

Chinese Proverbs To Remember and Think About

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. 

It sings because it has a song.

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand

that gives flowers.

A book hold a house of gold.

A book is like a garden caried in the pocket.

A book tightly shut is but a block of paper.

A child's life is like a piece of paper 

on which every person leaves a mark.

A diamond with a flaw is worth more

than a pebble without imperfections.

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, 

nor a man perfected without trials.

A nations treasure is in it's scholars.

A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, 

be afraid only of standing still.

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; 

small doubts, little wisdom.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.

Do not employhandsome servants.

Do not remove a fly

 from your friends forehead

 with a hatchet.

Don't open a shop,

 unless you like to smile.

Each generation will reap,

 what the former generation has sown.

Give a man a fish

 and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish

 and you feed him for a lifetime.

He who asks is a fool,

 for five minutes,

but he who does not ask

 remains a fool forever.

He who is drowned

 is not troubled

 by the rain.

He who strikes the first blow

admits he's lost the argument.

If heaven made him,

earth can find

 some use for him.

If you are patient in one moment of anger,

you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

If you bow at all, 

bow low.

If you don't want anyone to know, 

don't do it.

Poems: About Friends

There is nought better to be

With noble souls of company:

There is nought dearer than to wend

With good friends faithful to the end.

This is the love whose fruit is sweet:

Therefore to abide within is meet.

Friendship Quotes to Remember and Think About

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

--Latin Proverb

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

--Robert Louis Stevenson

Only your real friends tell you when your face is dirty.

Sicilian Proverb

I get by with a little help from my friends.

John Lennon

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an oppourtunity

Kahlil Gibran

When a friend is in trouble, 

don't annoy him by asking'

 if there is anything you can do.

Think up something appropriate;

and do it.

Edgar Watson Howe

True friendship is like sound health;

The value of it is seldom known,

Until it be lost.

It is not so much our friends' 

help that helps us

as the confident knowledge

that they will help us.


Friendship is the only cement
That will ever hold the world together.
--Woodrow Wilson


Treat your friends as you do your pictures,
and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill


Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy,like art...
It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things 
that give value  to survival.
--C.S. Lewis


In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, 
but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther Jr


  Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.


Friendships of't would longer last,
And quarrels be prevented, 
If angry words were let go past;
Forgiven not resented


Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare
 and beautiful things of life
--James F Byrnes


Give me one, just one, who meets
The need of all my varying moods.


The greatest good you can do for another;
 is not to share your riches; 
but to reveal to him his own.


The only way to have a friend;
is to be one.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson


The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when 
he discovers that someone else believes in him 
and is willing to trust him.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson


If a man does not make new acquaintances as he
 advances through life,
 he will soon find himself left alone;
one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
--Samuel Johnson


Am I destroying my enemies,
 when I make friends of them?
--Abraham Lincoln


You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
--Golda Meir


Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
--Mencius


The best way to keep your friends is not to  give them away.
--Wilson Mizner


Think where man's glory most begins and ends.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats


Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott


Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving,
 make everyday a holiday and celebrate just living.
--Amanda Bradley


If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
--Charlotte Bronte


The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away,
 if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts, 
and finds no other inspiration.
--Pearl S. Buck


I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship,
 as you nourish your soul.
I  am still very much a part of my friends ' lives;
 and they are very much a part of my life.
Anyone, who does not have this source of strength,
 and comfort,
 can lose perspective and become isolated.


Friendship with oneself is all important, 
because without it'
 one cannot be friends,
 with anyone else in the world.


A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good
egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
--Bernard Meltzer


A friend is someone who sings your heart's songback to you,
when you have forgotten the words.


Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance
They awaken us to new understanding,
with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never the same.


Sometime our light goes out;
 but is blown into flame by
another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks,
 to those who have rekindled this light.
--Albert Schweitzer


You can make more friends in two months,
by becoming interested in other people;
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie


Friendship is like a bank account;
you cannot continue to draw on it,
 without making a deposit.


When you ask Mother Nature for a gift,
Be thankful if she sends,
Not diamonds, pearls, or riches,
but love of real true friends.
Helen Steiner Rice


Many people will walk in and out of your life,
but only true friends
will leave footprints in your heart.
--Eleanor Roosevelt


Two may talk togethr
under the same roof for many years,
yet never really meet,
and it is the best ending.


A friend is one who knows us
but loves us anyway.


A good friend is cheaper than therapy.


The friend who holds your hand;
 and says the wrong thing;
is made of dearer stuff than one who stays away.


Probably no man ever had a friend;
that he did not dislike a little.


There is one friend in the life of each of us;
who seems not a separate person,
however dear and beloved,
but an expansion, an interpretation,
of ones's self,
the very meaning of one's soul.


I value the friend,
who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend,
who for me does not consult his calendar.


'Tis a great confidence in a friend,
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
--Benjamin Franklin


The best rule of friendship;
 is to keep your heart;
a little softer than your head.


If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends,
you're safe in doing it.
But if you take the slightest pleasure in it,
that's the time to hold your tongue.


Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive.


Friends are relatives you choose for yourself.


Many a person has held close,
throughout their entire lives,
two friends;
that always remained strange;
to one another,
because one of them attracted by virtue
of similarity,
the other by difference.


It is one of the blessings of old friends,
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson


Without wearing a mask,
that we are aware of,
we have a special face;
for each friend.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes


Ah, how good it feels!
The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quotes of Lost Love, To Remember, To Think About

Love is never lost.
If not reciprocated,
It will flow back,
And soften,
And purify, 
The heart.


Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake  and reach for hands that are not there.


Love begins with a smile,
Grows with a kiss,
And ends with;
A tear drop. 


There is love of course.
And then there is life.


'Tis better to haved loved and lost,
Then never to have loved at all.
--Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.


I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments,
and glue them together again,
and tell myself thaat the mended whole;
was as good as new.


What is broken is broken--
and I'd rather remember it as it was;
at its best,then mend it,
and see all the broken places,
as long as I lived.


It is better to have loved and lost,
 than never to have lost at all.
--Samuel Butler


The hottest love,
has the coldest end.
--Socrates 

Celebrate the Christmas Season-

Dashing through the snow?
Wandering which will give out first-
your feet or your budget?
Christmas isn't supposed to be a marathon of exhausting obligations-
it's a celebration of all that is good and right

Christmas is doing a little extra for someone.

Good news from heaven the angels bring,
Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a child is given,
 To crown us with the joy of heaven.
--Martin Luther

Deck the halls...
Boughs of holly,
Swags of pine,
Festive red ribbons
And parcels wrapped in twine.
Garland and tinsel,
Cancles glowing bright,
Star-shaped cookies,
And strings of lights,
Christmas ornaments of red , white, and green,
But the best decorations are the loved ones we've seen.

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
--Unknown

'Tis the season to be jolly...
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind
that we make use, from time to time,
of playful deeds and jokes.
--St. Thomas Aquinas

In things pertaining to enthusiasm,
no man is sane who does not know how
to be insane on proper occasions.
--Henry Ward Beecher

Fa la la la la..
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
--William Cingreave

Unwind. Relax. Set the mood for your holiday 
season by surrounding hourself wiith music. Hum.
Sing. Listen to carols in the car. Go caroling and 
share the joy!

Let's dance and sing and make good cheer,
 For Christmas comes but once a year.
--Sir George Alexander MacFarren

Celebrate the holidays in dozens of small ways. 
Joy has a way of multiplying.

Make the most of the season.
Share it with the ones you love!

Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas; 
Star and angels gave the sigh.

Love is the best reason to celebrate.
Carry that attitude all year long!

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
--Ebeneezer Scrooge, in a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Christmas Eve was a night of  song that
 wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it
 warmed more than your body. It wamed your
 heart...filled it, too, with a melody that would
 last forever.
--Bess Streeter Aldrich

 Christians awake,
salute the happy morn
whereon the Saviour of the world was born.
--John Byrom

The magi, as you know,, were wise men--
wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the
Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving
 Christmas presents.
--O. Henry

The joy of brightehing other llives,
 bearing each others' burdens,
easing others' loads, and supplanting empty
 hearts and lives with generous gifts
 becomes for us the magic of Christmas

The best present is the gift of
 a family around a glittering tree,
wrapped  in contentment
 and tied with a ribbon of charity.

Somehow, not only for Christmas,
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give others,
Is the joy that comes back to you.
And the more you spend in blessing,
The poor and lonely and sad,
The more of your heart's possessing,
Returns to you glad.
--John Greenleaf Whittier

Let
us re-
member
that
the
Christmas heart is a giving heart,
a wide-open heart that thinks of 
others first. The birth of the baby
Jesus stands as the most signifi-
cant event is all histoy, because
it has meant the pouring into a
sick world of the healing medicine
of love which has transtormed all
manner of hearts for almost two
thousand years.... Underneath all 
the bulging bundles is this beating 
Christmas heart.=George Matthew Adams

The first gift
of Christmas was self.
Christ gave us Himself 
to light the way to heaven.

To give without any reward, or any notice,
has a special quality of its own.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!

A Christmas Blessing:
During this Christmas season,
May you be blessed
With the spirit of the season,
Which is peace,
The gladness of the season,
Which is hope,
And the heart of the season, 
Which is love.

One of the nice things about Christmas is that
you can make people forget the past with a present!

The best gifts don't fit neatly into a box. Forgive
someone; you;ll free yourself. Show kindness; you'll find
joy. Respect others and you'll cultivate self-esteem.
In giving, we ultimately discover teasures within.
Carry on the celebration of giving all the year long. 

It is more blessed to give than to receive!

I think I began learning long ago that those
who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
-Booker T. Washington

We must want for others,
not ourselves alone.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

You make a living by what you get,
 but you make a life by what you give.

If there is no joyouw way to give a festive gift,
give love away.

May peace be your gift at Christmas
and your blessing all year through.

For little children everyshere
A Joyous season still we make;
We bring our precious gifts to them.
Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.
--Phoebe Cary

Joy is not in things:
it is in us.
--Richard Wagner

Open yourself to the fun of the season.
Appreciate the refreshing spirit of kindness.
Laugh and enjoy everything around you.

The sun does not shine
for a few trees and flowers,
but for the wide world's joy.

Reflect upon your present blessings--
of which every man has many--
not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some.
--Charles Dickens

No  duty is more urgent
than that of returning thanks.

Blessed is the season
which engages the whole world in
a conspiracy of love.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state 
of mind. to cherish peade and goodwill, to be
plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of 
Christmas.
--Calvin Coolidge

Until one feels the spirit of Christmas,
there is no Christmas.
All else is outward display--
so much tinsel and decorations.
For it isn't the holly, it isn't the snow.
It isn't the tree, not the firelights glow.
It's the warmth that comes
to the hearts of men
when the Christmas spirit returns again.

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day,
encircling all our limited world like a magic ring,
left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound
together all our home enjoyments, affections, 
and hopes; grouped everything and everyone
'round the Christmas fire, and made the picture
shining in our bright young eyes complete.
Charles Dickens

Christmas is the day 
that holds time together
--Alexander

Joy to th world! The Lord is come:
Let earth receive her King!
Peace on Earth will come to stay
When we live Christmas every day.
--Helen Steiner Rice

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

Let us remember, the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart  that thinks of others first. Underneath all the bungling, is the beating Christmas heart.

Whatever else be lost among the years, 
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: 
Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears,
Let us hold close one day, 
Remembering its poignant meaning,
For the hearts of men.
Let us get back our childlike faith again.
--Grace Noll Crowell 

A lovely thing about Christmas,
Is that it's compulsory, 
Like a thunderstorm.
And we all go through it together. 

Let mother Nature bless us this Christmas, with quietness of mind;
Teach us to be patient,
And always to be kind.

A Christmaas candle,
Is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away;
While quite unselfish,
It grows small.

Christmas waves a magic wand,
Over this world, 
And behold, Everything is softer, 
And more beautiful
--Norman Vincent Peale

Good news from heaventhe angels bring,
Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a child is given,
To crown us with the joy of heaven
--Martin Luther

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there
Clement C. Moore, A visit from St St Nicolas

To Christmas I no more desire a rose,
Than wish a snow in Mays's new-fangled shows;
But like of each thing in the season grows.
--William Shakespeare

Love came down at Christmas;
Love all lovely, love devine; 
Love was born at Christmas,
Stars and angels gave the sign.

The merry family gathering-
The old, the very young;
The strangely lovely way they
Harmonize in carols sung.
For Christmas is tradition time
Traditions that recall
The precious memories down the years,
The sameness of them all.

Heap on the wood!
The wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
--Sir Walter Scott

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
And etched on vacant places
Are half-forgotten faces
Of friends we used to cherish,
And loves we used to know.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.
Sir Walter Scott

Christmas hath a darkness;
Brighter than the blazing noon;
Christmas hath a chillness
Warmer than the heat of June,
Christmas hath a beauty
Lovlier than the world can show;
For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
Brought for us so low.
-Christina Rosetti