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- Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, love divine; Love was born at Christmas, Star and angels gave the sign.
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Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine, Love was born at Christmas, Star and Angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead, Love Incarnate, Love Divine, Worship we our Jesus, But wherewith for sacred sign? Love shall be our token, Love be yours and love be mine, Love to God and all men, Love for plea and gift and sign.
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The poem describes “love,” Jesus Christ, coming down from heaven on Christmas. This “love” is on earth for all of humankind to feel and learn from. All those who subscribe to Christianity, and all those who do not, are part of it. Rossetti depicts “love” as “incarnate,” made flesh in a human body. Jesus is the embodimentof divine love and she sough...
‘Love Came Down at Christmas’ by Christina Rossetti is a three-stanza poem that’s separated into sets of four lines, known as quatrains. These quatrains follow a specific rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD, changing end sounds as the poets fit. This helps with the musical quality of the text and is part of the reason that the poem has persisted in song form...
Rossetti makes use of several poetic techniques in this poem. These include but are not limited to anaphora, epistrophe, and alliteration. The first, anaphora, is the repetitionof a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple lines, usually in succession. This technique is often used to create emphasis. A list of phrases, items, or actions may be c...
Stanza One
In the first stanza of ‘Love Came Down at Christmas,’ the speakerbegins by making use of the line that later came to be used as the title of the poem. This line makes a simple statement about the Christmas season– that love appeared there. It “came down” from heaven in the form of Jesus Christ. He was born to the Virgin Mary, a moment that was marked by the “Star and ane”.
Stanza Two
In the second stanza of ‘Love Came Down at Christmas’ by Christina Rossetti’she speaks of the “Godhead”. In the Christian tradition “Godhead” refers to the divinity of the Christian God, the “Father, Son, and “Holy Spirit”. These lines celebrate God, the Christian religion, and the love and peace that came to earth that day. The love is “incarnate,” meaning that it is embodied in flesh, it has made it into human form.
Stanza Three
In the final stanza, Rossetti adds that “Love” is going to be the savior of all the human race. It is everything to everyone all the time. It will be “our token,” and belong to every person on the planet. When she speaks to “you” she isn’t talking to a specific person but to the entire human race. The love will allow them to love not just God, but one another as well. It entered into the world for “all men”. It is both a “gift and sign”. All those who consider themselves a part of the Christi...
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Representative Text. 1 Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love divine; Love was born at Christmas; star and angels gave the sign. 2 Worship we the Godhead, Love incarnate, Love divine; worship we our Jesus,
- Christina Georgina Rossetti (1885)
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Christina Rossetti. 1830 –. 1894. Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas, Star and Angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead, Love Incarnate, Love Divine; Worship we our Jesus: But wherewith for sacred sign? Love shall be our token, Love be yours and love be mine, Love to God and all men,
In the first stanza, the poet speaks of the divine love that came down to Earth at Christmas. This love is described as "lovely" and "divine." It is the love that is the source of all other love. In the second stanza, the poet speaks of the birth of Jesus Christ. This birth is described as a sign of the love of God for humanity.
Christina Rossetti. Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) came from a family steeped in the arts. The author of three collections of mostly religious poetry and four devotional books, she suffered poor health from age 16.
May 13, 2011 · Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, love divine; Love was born at Christmas, Star and angels gave the sign. Worship we the Godhead, Love incarnate, love divine; Worship we our Jesus: But wherewith for sacred sign? Love shall be our token, Love shall be yours and love be mine, Love to God and to all men, Love for plea and gift and sign.
