“Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger.” MenWorldChildrenLittlesCareLyingSawsDangerLowsSafetyStrangerStableChristmas EveOxen Author:Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
“Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?” MenWorldHeartLittlesArtStillsEnoughPoorWeakWideThee Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems