My Christmas gifts to you!

You'll find some presents under the Christmas tree. Pick your favourite!

Enjoy this Christmas card by pop-art American painter Andy Warhol:

And here are two Xmas poems by two of my favourite poets:


Little tree
by: e.e. cummings (1894-1962)

ITTLE tree

little silent Christmas tree

you are so little

you are more like a flower

who found you in the green forest

and were you very sorry to come away?

see i will comfort you

because you smell so sweetly

i will kiss your cool bark

and hug you safe and tight

just as your mother would,

only don't be afraid

look the spangles

that sleep all the year in a dark box

dreaming of being taken out and allowed to shine,

the balls the chains red and gold the fluffy threads,

put up your little arms

and i'll give them all to you to hold

every finger shall have its ring

and there won't be a single place dark or unhappy

then when you're quite dressed

you'll stand in the window for everyone to see

and how they'll stare!

oh but you'll be very proud

and my little sister and i will take hands

and looking up at our beautiful tree

we'll dance and sing

"Noel Noel"

Christmastide

by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
Star and Angels gave the sign.

Worship we the Godhead,
Love Incarnate, Love Divine;
Worship we our Jesus:
But wherewith for sacred sign?

Love shall be our token,
Love be yours and love be mine,
Love to God and all men,
Love for plea and gift and sign.

Glossary:

worship - adoremos

wherewith - com quê; como

sacred - sagrado

token - dádiva

plea - pedido

gift - prenda, dom

A Nativity Scene by Alessandro Botticelli. Exquisite*, isn't it?

Mystic Nativity. 1500. Tempera on canvas. 

National Gallery, London

* exquisite - requintado, delicado, delicioso

And, last but not least, a Christmas Carol - an interesting interpretation of Silent Night:

Which one did you pick?