Talk:I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

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Dab page

There needs to be a disambiguation page for Peace on Earth (song), as U2 made a song with the same title on All That You Can't Leave Behind. Inhuman14 (talk) 02:00, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Stanzas

The recent edit by Diaa abdelmoneim should be reverted because the Wikisource doesn't have the last two stanzas about the battle, or the historical note about how the poem was written during the Civil War. --SurrealWarrior (talk) 12:51, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wait. So the article should be reverted because Wikisource is incomplete? Does no one else see the problem with this? The poem was originally composed in seven stanzas; two of them are commonly left out because they directly reference the Civil War, but that doesn't make them nonexistent. Rogue 9 (talk) 01:02, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Year of Composition

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem "Christmas Bells" after his son was wounded at the Battle of New Hope Church, VA during the Mine Run Campaign on November 27, 1863. Longfellow received word of his son's injuries on December 1 of that year, and Charles was brought home on December 8. The poem was written during Charles Appleton Longfellow's recovery. Unless you mean to tell me Longfellow took over a year to write the poem, I fail to see how it can be placed in 1864, a year which saw Charles Appleton Longfellow discharged from the army in February. Rogue 9 (talk) 01:15, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lyrics

It seems strange to have an article on a Christmas Carol without having the lyrics - particularly as just about every other article for carols that I have found does have the lyrics - is there any particular reason for this? JenLouise (talk) 08:46, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Songwriters

Trivialist removed the reference to a lovely version of the poem, illustrated by handbells, did not answer when asked about it. Always, if you remove it, please justify the removal! Don't just blithely pull an entry out. MusicScienceGuy (talk) 23:10, 29 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with historical dates in "Origins"

In the section "Origins," this article says that Longfellow's son Charles was wounded in November 1863 in the Battle of New Hope Church. But that particular battle apparently took place in May 1864 (so says its wiki page). What's the truth? David aukerman ^talk 18:49, 20 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This is a good thing to catch. If I recall, Charles was injured twice, so perhaps this article (source?) is confusing the two instances. I wish I had a source to justify my speculation... --Midnightdreary (talk) 18:48, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

He was not injured twice. He was discharged from the army in February 1864 after being wounded at New Hope Church, Virginia, not Georgia, in November 1863 during the Mine Run campaign, as I already pointed out once on this talk page. I am displeased that the fact-checking has slipped this much. I'm going to fix the article (again). Rogue 9 (talk) 22:19, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

I would like to print I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day — Preceding unsigned comment added by Janet P Berge (talk • contribs) 22:06, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, knock yourself out; the poem's old enough that it's in the public domain. Rogue 9 (talk) 21:57, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]