His ability to portray life in one of the most beautiful fashions ever devised — poetry — is illustrated in his masterful, “The Song of Hiawatha ... on Christmas day, in 1863, he tried ...

Dad’s favorite Christmas hymn was, “I Heard the Bells On Christmas Day,” because his service during the war had made the words even more meaningful to him. I think of him every year when this song is ...

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play ... The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” based on an 1863 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is a truly unusual Christmas song. Instead of the expected Christmas joy and mirth, the lyric forms a ...

Like millions of Americans, this Christmas season, we will gather with our whole family in Indiana. With two of our kids’ families in active-duty military service, it has been three long years ...

Today’s Poem of the Day ... in that happy thought of Christmas everywhere. But almost immediately, the ongoing war intrudes. However distant the cannons, still they “roar” a song of death and, worse, ...