Christmas-day, 1878
"Christmas-day, 1878" is a meditative poem in which a weary speaker wrestles with the risk of growing numb to Christmas, a day that returns with relentless sameness year after year. The speaker's only remedy is the daily presence of the divine — not a once-yearly encounter, but an unbroken relationship. Structured in three stanzas of quiet, aching longing, the poem builds toward a striking vision: the speaker as a brother to the Eternal Son, endlessly reborn through that closeness.
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