Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Poems | Academy of American Poets

On Friday, December 25, 1863, Longfellow—as a 57-year-old widowed father of six children, the oldest of which had been nearly paralyzed as his country fought a war against itself—wrote a poem seeking to capture the dissonance in his own heart and the world he observes around him that Christmas Day

Christmas Bells – I heard the bells on Christmas Day
— Read on poets.org/poem/christmas-bells