On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
"On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" is a landmark poem in which John Milton greets the newborn Christ with a rich ceremonial hymn, imagining the hush that falls across creation at the moment of his arrival. Stars freeze in wonder, winds go still, and a universal peace silences the drums of war. As angels fill the night sky above the manger, the poem takes a dramatic turn — the old pagan gods, from Apollo to Moloch to Osiris, are one by one routed and dethroned by the power radiating from a single infant in swaddling bands.
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