The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme

The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme is a collection of Christmas-themed poetry written by Thomas Cooper. Cooper was an English poet and a political activist. Excerpt:
"'Tis midnight, and the broad full moon
Pours on the earth her silver noon;
Sheeted in white, like spectres of fear,
Their ghostly forms the towers uprear;
And their long dark shadows behind them are cast,
Like the frown of the cloud when the lightning hath past.
The warder sleeps on the battlement,
And there is not a breeze to curl the Trent;
The leaf is at rest, and the owl is mute—
But list! awaked is the woodland lute:
The nightingale warbles her omen sweet
On the hour when the ladye her lover shall meet."