This is a poem written by Christina Rossetti, set to music first by Gustav Holst in 1906 and then by Harold Darke in 1911.
This is by Darke :
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In The Bleak Midwinter
Hobbies
Christmas Crossword 2020
First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins a copy of A Bear’s Diary by Tachybaptus. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Sunday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Last week’s winner of a [more…]
Arts
Going Postal’s Monster Christmas Quiz
What do you or your family know about Christmas, and how it’s been celebrated and portrayed over the years? 120 Christmas questions! Doing the whole quiz in one go might be a bit much for [more…]
Fiction
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
The haggard, ruddy-faced detective sighed heavily as he groped across the table for the tape machine. He hit a button and began speaking in the weary, nicotine-and-vodka drenched tones of a man resigned to keeling [more…]