Christmas Babe (Version 2)

A gentle collection of verse celebrating the wonder of the Christmas season and its central miracle: the birth of the holy infant. Sangster, an American poet and editor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, turns her eye toward the nativity scene, the warmth of family gatherings, and the quiet reverence of winter's holiest day. These are poems written for readers who find solace in tradition, who light candles against the dark December cold, and who believe that poetry can still speak the unspeakable tenderness of a world made new. There is no modernism here, no irony, no jarring note only the steady, sincere voice of a woman writing from within her faith, offering up verses that feel like carols, like prayers, like the soft glow of a Christmas morning.