Comments on Hadriana's Treasures: "Snow had fallen, snow on snow"

LWM and Suburbia...I've started a poll of best/wor...

2008-12-02T04:52:00.000Z

LWM and Suburbia...I've started a poll of best/worst Christmas songs and carols. Troy has started the ball rolling with "California Dreamin'"!.....

I love anything by Christina Rossetti. My fav caro...

2008-12-01T22:56:00.000Z

I love anything by Christina Rossetti. My fav carol. What a brilliant photo. I wish we had just a little bit of snow here for the children to enjoy :)

Love this carol... utterly beautiful. Am a christ...

2008-12-01T22:32:00.000Z

Love this carol... utterly beautiful. Am a christmas fan... the first whiff of cinnamon and oranges and I'm a gonner.
Now that we are officially into Advent I can play my carol cds in the car. Hooray!!

FF, I looked at Goblin Market...I think I'll have ...

2008-12-01T16:48:00.000Z

FF, I looked at Goblin Market...I think I'll have to go back and read it properly to absorb it as it is a long one. I did find this excellent site: http://www.poetry-online.org/index.htm

Thanks for helping me find it!

Well I love Christina but don't much like religiou...

2008-12-01T16:15:00.000Z

Well I love Christina but don't much like religious things (sorry all you lot who do). So I will just say this is not a patch on her poem 'Goblin Market' that was part of last year's OU course.

I hate to say this Troy but if I went back forty y...

2008-12-01T15:23:00.000Z

I hate to say this Troy but if I went back forty years I would be one! (Will check that soon thanks.)

Thank you Lakeland Jo...

Can Bass 1...I am quoting here: "Gustav Holst wrote a popular version of In the Bleak Midwinter in 1909, but it was Harold Darke's arrangement from 1911 - which begins with a solo voice rather than full choir - that won the poll." I reckon that answers your question. Thanks for popping by. (I will also try to glean more about the John Ireland version...)

There are two settings of this poem: one by Harold...

2008-12-01T14:50:00.000Z

There are two settings of this poem: one by Harold Darke and other by John Ireland. I wonder which one won?

Beautiful carol and beautiful picture. I love the ...

2008-12-01T14:29:00.000Z

Beautiful carol and beautiful picture. I love the words in that carol, and when it is cold or snowy I often sing it out loud to my be-leagered family!
I think High Church Agnostic is a great description. I think it described me til 2001. I started having an increasingly strong faith after that, and have since found my place in the Church Community and my faith extremely comforting and inspiring too. No-one who knew me in an earlier incarnation can believe it.
Great post.

Yes it is melancholy and evocative but...call me a...

2008-12-01T13:16:00.000Z

Yes it is melancholy and evocative but...call me a philistine...I'll stick with "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas and Papas, at this time of year. It's funny I've just been blogging on mine about the Christmas spirit (among other things).
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-wI6uAOHzvo
this link will take you California Dreamin' and back about 40 years!