Renaissance Christmas Wreath

A Renaissance Christmas Wreath

	Religious Observance	Secular Celebration
First Sunday of Advent	George Herbert "Christmas (A) " ; Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmoreland "A Carol [I] "; John Milton "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
Second Sunday of Advent	John Donne "Annunciation"; Francis Quarles "On the Infancy of Our Savior "
Third Sunday of Advent	Ben Jonson "A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior"; Richard Crashaw "In The Holy Nativity of Our Lord God: A Hymn Sung as by Shepherds;" George Herbert "Christmas [B]"; Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmoreland "A Carol [II]"; Henry Vaughan "The Shepherds"
Fourth Sunday of Advent	Robert Southwell "New Prince, New Pomp"; Henry Vaughan "The True Christmas"
Christmas	Robert Southwell "Burning Babe"; Joseph Beaumont "Jesus inter Ubera Mariae [Jesus between Mary's Breasts]"; Rowland Watkyns "Upon Christ's Nativity, or Christmas"	George Wither "A Christmas Carol" Robert Herrick "Ceremonies for Christmas" "Christmas-Eve, Another Ceremony" "Another to the Maids"
New Year's Day	Robert Herrick "The New-year's Gift"; Francis Quarles "On the Infancy of Our Savior"; Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmoreland "A Carol [III]"; Henry Vaughan "Christ's Nativity"
Epiphany	John Donne "Nativity "; Robert Herrick "The Star-Song: A Carol to the King; Sung at White-Hall" and "Christ's Birth "; Henry Vaughan "The Nativity"
Epilogue	Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmoreland "A Carol [IV]"	Anonymus (c. 1624) "A Song Bewailing the Time of Christmas, So Much Decayed in England"

Send thanks, comments or suggestions to Terry Ross for the collection of Christmas Poems by George Herbert and other 17th Century Writers. (All links on this page are from this website.)