The Christmas Holly
"The Christmas Holly" is a celebratory Victorian poem by Eliza Cook that sings the praises of the holly plant as a symbol of enduring life and communal joy. While flowers fade and frost silences the birds, the holly blazes on with its red berries and burnished green leaves. Cook draws a striking contrast between holly and darker plants — ivy that haunts ruins, cypress that grows near the dead — to crown holly as the one natural emblem untouched by sorrow or loss.
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