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Works of John Milton: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1630)

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Milton, John

Milton, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1630):

Milton wrote his friend Charles Diodati that this poem came to him on
the morning of Christmas Day and that it was his "birthday gift to Christ."
It was his first finished and serious work. Four stanzas in rhyme royal
introduce the hymn itself. This is the birthday of Christ "of wedded maid and
virgin mother born," who will atone for man and "with His Father work us a
perpetual peace." For us he laid aside heavenly majesty and became mortal.
The poet hopes to present his poem before the Wise Men come, for he ...

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