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 moonPours 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 muteBut list! awaked is the woodland lute:The nightingale warbles her omen sweetOn the hour when the ladye her lover shall meet."