"I Sit and Sew" by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson : The Poetry Foundation

Read the poem I Sit and Sew by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: I sit and sew—a useless task it seems, / [ . . . ]

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)

American writer

A Special Prayer for the New Year

     "O Thou, who art ever the same, grant us so to pass through the coming year with faithful hearts, that we may be able in all things to please Thy loving eyes. Amen." -- Mozarabic, A.D. 700

Source: A Pocket Prayer Book and Devotional Guide (Nashville, Tenn.: The Upper Room, 1941), compiled by Ralph Spalding Cushman

Two Quotations on Listening to Your Heart

"You'll never find peace of mind

until you listen to your heart."

-- George Michael (1963-2016)

British musician

"Put your ear down by your heart

and listen hard."

-- Author Unknown

John Denver sings "Silent Night, Holy Night"

"December Twenty-fourth" by Eleanor Slater : Christ in Poetry

DECEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH
by Eleanor Slater

Tomorrow you are born again
   Who died so many times.
Do you like the candle-light,
   Do you like the chimes?

Do you stop to wonder
   Why men never see
How very closely Bethlehem
   Approaches Calvary?


Source: Christ in Poetry (1952), an anthology compiled and edited by Thomas Curtis Clark and Hazel Davis Clark

"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost - Audio Poem of the Day

Listen to a recording of a man reading this poem by Robert Frost, a poem that is good for children: The Road Not Taken - Poem of the Day

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

American poet