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    On the Morning of Christ's Nativity is a nativity ode written by John Milton in 1629 and published in his Poems of Mr. John Milton (1645). The poem describes...
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    John Milton's nativity ode On the Morning of Christ's Nativity between 1803 and 1815. A total of 16 illustrations are extant: two sets of six watercolours...
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    Moloch (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    soaring above in his "Flight of Moloch" one of his illustrations of Milton's poem "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity". Moloch appears as a child-eating...
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    poem, "On the morning of Christ's Nativity," a work that is still widely read during Christmas. Heinz, Donald (2010). Christmas: Festival of Incarnation...
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    sections, of John Milton's youthful poetry in a variety of genres, including such notable works as An Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, Comus and...
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    The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Jesus or birth of Christ is documented in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew. The two accounts...
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    decline in religious painting. William Blake's illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity are a typically esoteric treatment in watercolour. Edward...
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  • 1968). Readings included poems: The Annunciation, John Donne; A Dialogue, George Herbert; On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (extract), John Milton; Chanticleer...
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  • Upon the Circumcision with The Passion and On the Morning of Christ's Nativity form a set of poems that celebrates important Christian events: Christ's birth...
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    John Milton (category Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge)
    Milton's poem On the Morning of Christ's Nativity was set as a large-scale choral work by Cyril Rootham (1875–1938). Milton also wrote the hymn Let us with...
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    Metaphysical poets (category 17th-century literature of England)
    Poems of 1645. His On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629) and "On Shakespear" (1630) appear in Grierson's anthology; the latter poem and "On the University...
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    celebration of Christian peace, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity line 89, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Louisa May Alcott. Representations of Pan have...
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  • introductory stanzas of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. Like many stanzaic forms, rhyme royal fell out of fashion during the later seventeenth-century...
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  • penance practiced by the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church and Catholic Church in preparation for the Nativity of Jesus on December 25. Ethiopian...
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    Against the Meditations and Replies The Geometry Benedict de Spinoza Ethics John Milton English Minor Poems On the Morning of Christ's Nativity A Paraphrase...
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  • connects Christ's Crucifixion with his Incarnation. It is linked to two other poems of Milton: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity and Upon the Circumcision...
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    Apollo (redirect from Cult of Apollo)
    the night before. The morning planet was called Apollo, and the one at evening Hermes/Mercury before they realised they were the same, thereupon the name...
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    John Blackwood McEwen (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music)
    and Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity; three more CDs of McEwen's string quartets; and a single CD of solo piano music, including the large scale...
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  • burn in hell is connected to themes originating in his poem On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. According to C. A. Patrides, it "combines a serene assurance...
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    experienced visions in the Abbey. He saw Christ with his Apostles and a great procession of monks and priests, and heard their chant. On 8 October 1779, Blake...
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    The Nativity of John the Baptist (or Birth of John the Baptist, or Nativity of the Forerunner, or colloquially Johnmas or St. John's Day (in German) Johannistag)...
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    Agonistes draws on the story of Samson from the Old Testament, Judges 13–16; in fact it is a dramatisation of the story starting at Judges 16:23. The drama starts...
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  • revised edition, 1673); the volume includes these poems: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity A Paraphrase on Psalm 114 Psalm 136 The Passion an ode possibly...
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    of God, and the Octave Day of the Nativity of the Lord. In Western Christianity, the Feast of the Naming and Circumcision of Jesus Christ marks the eighth...
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    Pastoral (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Il Penseroso, which celebrates a life of melancholy and solitude. Milton's, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629) blends Christian and pastoral imagery...
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    "Lycidas" "On The Morning of Christ's Nativity" Thomas Moore "As Slow our Ship" "The Light of Other Days" "The Harp that once through Tara's Halls" "The Minstrel-Boy"...
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    John Milton's Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1901), Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Defence of Poetry (1904), the Biblical Book of Ruth (1904), and...
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    Hodie (category Musical settings of poems by Thomas Hardy)
    us." The third movement is a gentle song for soprano, and sets a fragment of John Milton's poem "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": It was the winter...
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    Cyril Rootham (category Alumni of the Royal College of Music)
    Op.81 Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, soloists, chorus, semi-chorus and orchestra (1927–28) - poem by John Milton Op.93 City in the West, chorus...
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    Advent (redirect from Advent of Christ)
    as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for both the celebration of the Nativity of Christ at Christmas and the return of Christ at the Second Coming...
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