The Christmas Life by Wendy Cope

Posted:20 December 2015

At The Garden House we love to find a poem that somehow sums up a moment in the garden or landscape. This poem by Wendy Cope expresses her keen eye and appreciation for the everyday, the simple pleasures of English life, and highlights all the things we love about this time of year.

 

“Wishing all our Garden House friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy & Healthy New Year.”

Bridge & Debs xx

 

The Christmas Life by Wendy Cope OBE

Bring in a tree, a young Norwegian spruce,

Bring hyacinths that rooted in the cold,

Bring winter jasmine as its buds unfold:

Bring the Christmas life into this house.

 

Bring red and green and gold, bring things that shine,

Bring candlesticks and music, food and wine.

Bring in your memories of Christmas past,

Bring in your tears for all that you have lost.

 

Bring in the shepherd boy, the ox and ass,

Bring in the stillness of an icy night,

Bring in a birth, of hope and love and light;

Bring the Christmas life into this house.