Read full poem →A Hope Carol
Christmas Carols
A Candlemas Dialogue
Dictionary Entry
A small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study.
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. carolscarols christmascarols singingcarols singcarols sangcarols english
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Poetry examples for “carols”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →"I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
Read full poem →And the return of the Saturnian reign;--
My songs are carols sung at every shrine,
Proclaiming "Peace on earth, good will to men."
Read full poem →"Once every year, when carols wake,
On earth, the Christmas-night's repose,
Read full poem →And stock-doves murmur, and the milkmaid leaves
Her little lonely bed, and carols blithe
To see the heavy-lowing cattle wait
Read full poem →But "Oh," cried the maiden, binding her tresses,
"'Tis only a page that carols unseen,
Crumbling your hounds their messes!")
Read full poem →Notes: IMEV 2494. R. H. Robbins, ed., Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (Oxford 1955) 20-21 from this
manuscript, and R. L. Greene, ed., The Early English Carols (Oxford 1977) 278 from this manuscript. The burden is
repeated in the margin of f. 73V in a different form, "hey troly loly hey troly loly I must loue our sur Iohn & I loue
Read full poem →I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
Read full poem →I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,