Today’s Poem of the Day, “Christmas Bells,” is on every level a better and more interesting poem than “Resignation.” As the bells ring out for Christmas Day, 1863, the terrible year when the American ...

This carol was based on the poem "Christmas Bells," written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Christmas Day in 1863. With an injured wife and a son who joined the union army against his father’s ...

His poem, “Christmas Bells,” would, over time, become a song titled by the poem’s first line. The poem, which started off celebrating peace on earth, took a sullen turn.

If you hear the word “tintinnabulation,” you are almost certainly going to think of Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, “The Bells,” perhaps only because you are unlikely to remember anyplace else ...

In “Dumb-Bells,” he swipes at the emerging fad for exercising, the services of successful people trying “try to make themselves like God.” In stanzas of three tetrameter couplets each, he mocks ...