Star Over Bethlehem: Christmas Stories and Poems
Agatha Christie
A reproduction in one unique volume of three of Agatha Christie’s rarest and most sought-after books – Star Over Bethlehem, The Road of Dreams and Poems.The most popular detective story writer of all time turns her hand to the subject of Christmas.In a manger in Bethlehem, an angel offers Mary a vision of things to come… and a chance to change it all.A naughty little donkey learns the meaning of love as he carries a very special mother and child safely to Egypt.Mrs Hargreaves wanted to like people, but didn't really know how. Then she reached out to touch a stranger, and her eyes were opened to love.Here, in this charming gift edition, Agatha Christie’s stories and poems capture the true meaning of Christmas.This special collector’s edition contains a wealth of Agatha Christie rarities - not only all the stories, poems and illustrations from her long out-of-print book Star Over Bethlehem (1965), but also a reproduction of all her rare poetry from the two collections The Road of Dreams (1924) and Poems (1973).
STAR OVER BETHLEHEM
including
THE ROAD OF DREAMS
and
POEMS
by
Agatha Christie
Copyright
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
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Star over Bethlehem first published in Great Britain by Collins 1965
Poems first published in Great Britain by Collins 1973
The Road of Dreams first published in Great Britain by Geoffrey Bles 1924
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ISBN 978-0-00-728421-4
EPub Edition © 2010 ISBN: 9780007423804
Version: 2017-04-13
Contents
Cover (#u1d34a563-7101-54c3-8493-2b47672b7cc8)
Title Page (#ubd31f457-35fc-5b3b-91aa-fd246e5c928e)
Copyright
Star Over Bethlehem’s Contents
A Greeting
Star over Bethlehem
A Wreath for Christmas
The Naughty Donkey
Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh
The Water Bus
In the Cool of the Evening
Jenny by the Sky
Promotion in the Highest
The Saints of God
The Island
Poems’s Contents
Volume I
A Masque from Italy
The Players
The Comedy of the Arts
The Prologue: Sung by Columbine
Harlequin’s Song
Pierrot’s Song to the Moon
Pierrette Dancing on the Green
Columbine’s Song
Pulcinella
The Song of Pierrot by the Hearth
The Last Song of Columbine
Pierrot Grown Old
Epilogue: Spoken by Punchinello
Ballads
The Ballad of the Flint
Elizabeth of England
The Bells of Brittany
Isolt of Brittany
Dark Sheila
Ballad of the Maytime
The Princess Sings
Dreams and Fantasies
The Dream Spinners
Down in the Wood
The Road of Dreams
Heritage
The Wanderer
The Dream City
A Passing
Other Poems
Spring
Young Morning
Hymn to Ra
A Palm Tree in the Desert
World Hymn 1914
Easter 1918
To a Beautiful Old Lady
Wild Roses
Love Passes
Progression
There Where My Lover Lies
Volume II
Things
Beauty
The Water Flows
The Sculptor
A Wandering Tune
Places
Ctesiphon
In Baghdad
An Island
The Nile
Dartmoor
To a Cedar Tree
Calvary
Love Poems and Others
Count Fersen to the Queen
Beatrice Passes
Undine
Hawthorn Trees in Spring
The Lament of the Tortured Lover
What Is Love?
To M.E.L.M. in Absence
Remembrance
A Choice
My Flower Garden
Enchantment
Jenny by the Sky
Verses of Nowadays
From a Grown-up to a Child
I Wore My New Canary Suit
Racial Musings
Picnic 1960
About the Publisher (#ub7174613-d89c-5a9a-aae6-005754df8665)
STAR OVER BETHLEHEM
STAR OVER BETHLEHEM
and other stories
by
Agatha Christie Mallowan
Decorations by
Elsie Wrigley
For Hydie
A Greeting
Praise to the Yule Log!
Leap, Flames, merrily.
Hail to the Wassail Bowl!
Bubble,Wine, rosily!
In the Manger lies the Child;
Asses, Oxen, braying, lowing,
Cackling Hens and Cocks a’crowing.
Overfull the Inn to-night,
Up above a star shines bright,
Shepherds kneel beside their fold,
Wise Men bring their gifts of Gold,
Angels in the Sky above
Trumpet forth God’s gift of Love.
Waken, children, one and all,
Wake to hear the trumpet call,
Leave your sleeping, ’tis the Day,
Christmas, glorious Christmas Day!
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