In the bleak mid-winter

In the bleak mid-winter. Christina Georgina Rossetti* (1830-1894). First published in Scribner’s Monthly, 3/3 (January 1872, p. 278), and then in The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti (1904), edited by her brother, William Michael, who dated it ‘Before 1872’. In The Poetical Works it was entitled ‘A Christmas Carol’: In the bleak mid-winter,  Frosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron,  Water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow,  Snow on snow,In the bleak mid-winter,  Long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him,  Nor earth sustain;Heaven and earth shall flee away,  When he comes to reign:In the bleak mid-winter  A stable place sufficedThe Lord God Almighty,  Jesus...