Music on Christmas Morning

Ririro.com - Poetry · Jul 24, 2026 · 2m · transcript

"Music on Christmas Morning" is a devotional Christmas poem in which the speaker describes how the sound of carol music on a winter's morning lifts her from grief and restless sleep into soaring spiritual joy. Each stanza rises higher in feeling — from a solitary, pensive heart stirred by distant music on the cold breeze, to a vision of angels proclaiming Christ's birth and Satan's defeat. The poem moves through personal longing to communal celebration, connecting the speaker's inner life to the shepherds' awe on the first Christmas night.

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