My Christmas Secrets

Summary


"My Christmas Secrets" is a delightful Christmas poem narrated by a child bursting with holiday excitement and the impossible task of keeping gifts under wraps. May has already accidentally revealed baby's present and let slip a telling clue about mama's white gift — the one she'll need for getting tea. With gentle warmth and a knowing smile from mama, the poem captures the irresistible pressure of Christmas anticipation and the sweet chaos of a child's good intentions crumbling one secret at a time.

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Hurry Christmas! How you creep,
I’ve some presents I can’t keep,
Just this morning I forgot,
And told baby what I’d bought.

All he answered was, “Goo goo!”
So I don’t think that he knew,
I told mamma hers was white,
And she’d wear it every night.

A little girl accidentally spills Christmas gift secrets to her baby brother in a cosy kitchen, in "My Christmas Secrets"

That she’d need it getting tea.
Then my mamma smiled at me,
And she whispered, “Isn’t May
Letting secrets fly away?”

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S.C. Peabody is a lesser-known early twentieth-century American poet whose work often appeared in children's periodicals and holiday anthologies. "My Christmas Secrets" is a rare example of a Christmas poem told entirely from a child's candid, self-aware perspective, giving it an endearing confessional quality.