Christmas-Eve

It was Christmas-Eve, in the year 1815, and the roof was crowded with such piles of turkeys, geese, hares, and pheasants, that he always said he had preserved an affection for them throughout his life.

Comical People Unknown

"Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day" is a beautiful poem, filled with thought, humor, and imagination.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

Christmas-Eve ball, and had been duly presented by her grandfather, the King, with the usual string of pearls and her own carriage with the spokes of the wheels gilded halfway, only the King and Prince Ferdinand

Long Live the King! Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

If she had her part in Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day, he had his, no less, in Aurora Leigh.

Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

It was quite in Browning's way to take a humorous delight in imagining grotesque parallels to ideas and processes in which he profoundly believed; a proclivity aided by the curious subtle relation between his grotesquerie and his seriousness, which makes Pacchiarotto, for instance, closely similar in effect to parts of Christmas-Eve.

Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day had so largely and variously coloured Browning's work.

Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

Browning probably felt this, for the Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day stands in this respect alone in his work.

Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

This was peculiarly the case in the remarkable Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day (1850), the first-fruits of his married life, and the most instinct of all his poems with the mingled literary and religious influences which it brought.

Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

Christmas-Eve, Browning resolves not only the negations of critical scholarship but the dogmatic affirmations of the Churches into symptoms of immaturity in the understanding of spiritual things; in the knowledge how heaven's high with earth's low should intertwine.

Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

The speaker in Christmas-Eve is a genial if caustic observer, submitting with robust tolerance to the specks in the water which quenches his thirst; the speaker of Easter-Day is an anxious precisian, fearful of the contamination of earth, and hoping that he may “yet escape” the doom of too facile content.

Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905