Allen Tate Quotes About Christmas

Quotes about: Christmas

• The day's at end and there's nowhere to go,
  Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying;
  Get up and once again politely lying
  Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe.

  Allen Tate

  Christmas, Lying, Fire

  Allen Tate (1947). “Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection”

• Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky
  And I must think a little of the past:
  When I was ten I told a stinking lie
  That got a black boy whipped.

  Allen Tate

  Christmas, Lying, Love You

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.103, Macmillan

• Therefore with idle hands and head I sit
  In late December before the fire's daze
  Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

  Allen Tate

  Christmas, Hands, Fire

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.103, Macmillan

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