NOEL POEMS

The Twins Of Lucky Strike

I've sung of Violet de Vere, that slinky, minky dame,
Of Gertie of the Diamond Tooth, and Touch-the-Button Nell,
And Maye Lamore,-at eighty-four I oughta blush wi' shame
That in my wild and wooly youth I knew them ladies well.
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Robert Service

A Pig's-eye View Of Literature

The Lives and Times of John Keats,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, and
George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron

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Dorothy Parker

Masters In This Hall

Masters in this hall
Hear ye news today,
Brought from over seas
And ever you I pray.
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William Morris

Noel

I sang a song upon Christmas day
And the feet of many going one way,
The word the golden voice did say:
Gloria in Excelsis!
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Katharine Tynan

The Circus

I remember when I wrote The Circus
I was living in Paris, or rather we were living in Paris
Janice, Frank was alive, the Whitney Museum
Was still on 8th Street, or was it still something else?
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Kenneth Koch

Occasional Poems

I Christmas Poem for Nancy

Noel, Noel
We live and we die
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Delmore Schwartz

Lines For A Christmas Card

May all my enemies go to hell,
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel.


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Hilaire Belloc

Little Tree

little tree
little silent Christmas tree
you are so little
you are more like a flower
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E. E. Cummings

Les Paraboles De Dom Guy

En l'An mil quatre cent onzième de l'Hostie
Éternelle, de qui la lumière est sortie,
Du Roi Christ, mort, cloué par les pieds et les mains,
Sigismund de Hongrie étant chef des Romains,
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Charles Marie Rene Leconte De Lisle

To Lady Noel Byron

Men sought, ambition's thirst to slake,
The lost elixir old
Whose magic touch should instant make
The meaner metals gold.
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George Macdonald

A Pig's-eye View Of Literature

The Lives and Times of John Keats,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, and
George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron

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Dorothy Parker

The Last Ditch

LOVE, through your varied views on Art
Untiring have I followed you,
Content to know I had your heart
And was your Art-ideal, too.
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Edith Nesbit

The Perfect Playmate

Roger Charles Noel Bellingham. Before Ypres, March 4th, 1915


The Perfect Playmate, whither does he stray
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Katharine Tynan

To Edward Noel Long, Esq.

“Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico.”-HORACE.


Dear LONG, in this sequester'd scene,
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George Gordon Lord Byron

Tryste Noel

The Ox he openeth wide the Doore,
And from the Snowe he calls her inne,
And he hath seen her Smile therefor,
Our Ladye without Sinne.
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Louise Imogen Guiney

Noel: Christmas Eve 1913

en the stars were shining
Fared I forth alone
where westward falls the hill,
And from many a village
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Robert Seymour Bridges

To Edward Noel Long, Esq.

'Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico.'~Horace.


Dear Long, in this sequester'd scene,
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George Gordon Byron

Villonaud For This Yule

Towards the Noel that morte saison
(Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!)
Then when the grey wolves everychone
Drink of the winds their chill small-beer
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Ezra Pound

À L'auteur Du Banquet De Noël

Lorsque ton rude vers tout trempé d'amertume,
Comme une ardente proue en des vagues d'écume,
Stigmatise en passant notre siècle orgueilleux,
De l'énergique effort de son rythme anguleux,
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Charles Marie Rene Leconte De Lisle

Noel

Envoye A M. Agassiz, La Veille De Noel 1864,
Avec Un Panier De Vins Divers

L'Academie en respect,
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tide Of Tides

Christ born in Christmastide,
Magi become bowers,
A dozen sunrises in twelvetide,
Sparkling flame tree towers,
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Boluwatife Anuoluwa

To The Same (lady Noel Byron )

Dead, why defend thee, who in life
For thy worst foe hadst died;
Who, thy own name a word of strife,
Didst silent stand aside?
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George Macdonald

Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye My People

(Noel.)


By the sad fellowship of human suffering,
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Nora Pembroke (margaret Moran Dixon Mcdougall)

To Edward Noel Long, Esq. [1]

"Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico." - HORACE.


Dear LONG, in this sequester'd scene,
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George Gordon Byron