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Subject: CHRISTMAS
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First Line: There is a child born of our blessed virgin
Last Line: And welcome be this merry christmas
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


"GOD REST YE [OR, YOU] MERRY, GENTLEMEN", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: For jesus christ our saviour was born on christmas day
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


"I SING OF A MAIDEN [OR, SYGE OF A MAYDEN]", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sing of a maiden that is makeles
Last Line: Well may such a lady / goddes mother be
Variant Title(s): Two Carols To Our Lady
Subject(s): Christmas Carols;mary. Mother Of Jesus;religion;women - Bible; Virgin Mary;theology


"LO, HOW A ROSE E'ER BLOOMING", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And share our every load
Subject(s): Christmas;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "nativity, The;virgin Mary;


"LONG, LONG AGO (1)", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Winds through the olive trees
Last Line: "christ came to bethlehem, / long, long ago"
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


"MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERY ONE", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the rush of the merry morning
Last Line: "merry christmas, every one"
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


"THE CHRISTMAS CHIMES [IN BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK...]", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little penelope socrates
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


"THE GOLDEN CAROL [OF MELCHIOR, BALTHAZAR, AND GASPAR]", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We saw the light shine out a-far
Last Line: The star of christmas morning
Subject(s): Christmas;magi; "nativity, The;


A BALLAD FOR CHRISTMAS-TIDE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a story that hath oft
Last Line: Can bridge securely o'er!
Subject(s): Christmas; Evil; Heaven; Hell; Lazarus; Poverty; Wealth; Nativity, The; Paradise; Riches; Fortunes


A BALLAD OF THE NATIVITY, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now it was mary dreamed this dream
Last Line: Clasped close upon her breast!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A BELGIAN CHRISTMAS EVE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, whose deep ways are in the sea
Last Line: We know that thou art there.
Variant Title(s): A Prayer In Time Of War
Subject(s): Belgium; Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War


A BOY AT CHRISTMAS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could have my wish to-night it would not be for wealth or fame
Last Line: Than that of him who is a boy, a little boy on christmas day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Boys; Christmas; Nativity, The


A CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold where beauty walks with peace!
Last Line: Between this land and paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): California; Christmas; Life; Nativity, The


A CAROL, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh hush thee, my baby
Last Line: The price of a soul
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CAROL, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The warmth of cows
Last Line: And friend to grief
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS DAY BEFORE DAWN, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, bethlem town to-night is cold
Last Line: A world more sorrowful than theirs.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Religion; Theology


A CAROL FROM THE OLD FRENCH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear along our street
Last Line: Sing them till the night expire
Variant Title(s): A Christmas Carol
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


A CHILD IS BORN, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A child is born!' the magi cried, and then
Last Line: "lord of the earth beneath and heaven above."
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Good; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN GEORGIA. 1953, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marching through georgia to bed, he stopped, listened,
Subject(s): Georgia (state); Christmas; Family Life; Childhood Memories; Nativity, The; Relatives


A CHILD'S SONG OF CHRISTMAS, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My counterpane is soft as silk
Last Line: That little child of long ago.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS CAMP ON THE SAN GABR'EL, by AMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lamar and his rangers camped at dawn on the banks of the san gabr'el
Last Line: May god be merciful to them, as they were merciful to their guest!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS CARD, AFTER THE ASSASSINATIONS, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is to be born already fidgets in the stem
Last Line: Who forms himself from a wish, our best or last
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS CARMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sound over all waters, reach out from all lands
Last Line: All speech flow to music, all hearts beat as one!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God rest ye, merry gentlemen; let nothing you dismay
Last Line: For jesus christ, our saviour, was born on christmas-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a song in the air
Last Line: And we greet in his cradle our saviour and king.
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, sweet christmas, blest be the morn
Last Line: And many without a blanket to their bed
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Kindness


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another christmas-tide
Last Line: Make glad the waiting earth.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon that now is shining
Last Line: Of glory and of peace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Peace; Singing & Singers; Stars; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by HENRY CHARLES SUTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When jesus, our savior, in mean manger laid
Last Line: The kingdom of empire, the kingdom of heaven.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by MRS. SWIFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Summer has gone with its bloom and its fountains
Last Line: "we will toast ""our sweet ellet, -- the joyous, and fair!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Lorrain, Miss
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three damsels in the queen's chamber
Last Line: Bring us to thy son's eyes. Amen.
Subject(s): Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Songs


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So now is come our joyfulst feast
Last Line: Bear witness we are merry!
Variant Title(s): An Christmas Carroll;old Christmas;our Joyful Feast;christmas
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Home


A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1), by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The christ-child lay on mary's lap
Last Line: And all the stars looked down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the bleak mid-winter
Last Line: Give my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): My Gift
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Christmas Gifts; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology


A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2), by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God rest you merry gentlemen
Last Line: And nothing him dismayed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the paling of the stars
Last Line: To hail the king of glory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


A CHRISTMAS CAROL (ON THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god, thank god, we do believe
Last Line: Firstborn of god and heir of heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Praise; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND ANTHEM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hark to the voices of the night
Last Line: On that first christmas night.
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas Carols; Happiness; Holidays; Singing & Singers; Winter; Joy; Delight; Songs


A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherds had an angel
Last Line: Through all the heavenly height.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Grandchildren; Magi; Grandsons; Granddaughters


A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What sweeter music [musick] can be bring
Last Line: M. Henry lawes.
Variant Title(s): Sung To The King In The Presence At White-hall
Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Christmas Carols


A CHRISTMAS CHANT, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They ask me to sing them a christmas song
Last Line: And as bright a cheer.
Subject(s): Christmas; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS CHILD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She came to me at christmas time and
Last Line: Within her tiny, crumpled hand I touched the mighty hand of god!
Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS CHILDHOOD, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One side of the potato-pits was white with frost
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Fathers; Childhood; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS CHIME, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At christmas time from clime to clime
Last Line: And all the world is ringed with love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS CRADLE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let my heart the cradle be
Last Line: Greater peace shall reign within.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Cradles; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS EVE CHORAL, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Halleluja! / what sound is this across the dark
Last Line: Halleluja! Halleluja! Halleluja!
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


A CHRISTMAS FOLK-SONG, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little jesus came to town
Last Line: For that they housed him from the cold!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS FOLKSONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: De win' is blowin' wahmah
Last Line: Dey's many'll weep wid me.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS GHOST, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eve of christmas had arrived
Last Line: He merely saw a ghost.
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Ghosts; Supernatural; Negroes; American Blacks; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY; CHRISTMAS-EVE 1899, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: South of the line, inland from far durban
Last Line: But tarries yet the cause for which he died.'
Subject(s): Boer War; Christmas; South African War; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS GLEE; FEIGNED AS FROM ELIZABETHAN COMEDY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With a hey! And a hi! And a hey-ho glee!
Last Line: The christmas holly and the mistletoe!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS GREETING; FROM A NORTHERN START-GROUP TO A SOUTHERN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, brazilian brother - thy ample place is ready
Last Line: The height to be superb humanity.
Subject(s): Brazil; Christmas; Brazilians; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS HYMN, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in royal david's city
Last Line: All in white shall wait around.
Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs.
Variant Title(s): Who Was Conceived By The Holy Ghost, Born Of The Virgin Mary
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS HYMN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me what is this innumerable throng
Last Line: Bring love alone, true love alone, and lay it at his feet.
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ; Love; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS HYMN, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to the joyous day
Last Line: The saviour's praise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS HYMN, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A stable-lamp is lighted
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Holidays; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


A CHRISTMAS HYMN (NEW STYLE: 1875), SELECTION, by ALFRED DOMETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To murder one so young!
Last Line: Love rolls this groaning sea of life on pitiless rocks of law!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS HYMN (OLD STYLE: 1837), by ALFRED DOMETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the calm and silent night!
Last Line: Centuries ago!
Variant Title(s): The Nativity;a Christmas Chant
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


A CHRISTMAS LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis christmas, and the north wind blows
Last Line: My heart is always in the spot which was my childhood's home.
Subject(s): Australia; Christmas; England; Homesickness; Nativity, The; English


A CHRISTMAS LULLABY, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, baby, sleep! The mother sings
Last Line: Sleep, baby, sleep!
Variant Title(s): A Lullaby For Christmas
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS LULLABY, by ARTHUR WEIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The restless clock is ticking out
Last Line: His round of kindly deeds.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS LYRIC, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tho' the earth with age seems whitened
Last Line: Of the fathomless peace of christ!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS LYRIC, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still, as of old, the wise men scan
Last Line: O god, reveal thyself in man!
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS MASQUE, by BARRETT WENDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good friends, you must be good friends indeed tonight
Last Line: Finished, the company part, however they will. And so all ends.
Subject(s): Christmas; Masques; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS MEMORY (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pa he bringed me here to stay
Last Line: I ist only want my ma!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Memory; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


A CHRISTMAS MEMORY (2), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ma she's home - an' I'm 'way here
Last Line: I ist only want my ma!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Nativity, The; Relatives


A CHRISTMAS NOTE FOR GERALDINE UDELL, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do the prairie flowers, the huge autumn
Subject(s): Christmas; War; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS POEM, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw you nearly at dawn in a bath
Last Line: Certain if our family tonight was worthy
Subject(s): Christmas


A CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by HERBERT HENRY HINES    Poem Text                    
First Line: We open here our treasures and our gifts
Last Line: Accept the gift and all the life we bring.
Variant Title(s): A Christmas Offertory
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by THOMAS BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Father in heaven, lift us into the light
Last Line: In gloomy spirits, through the coming year.
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Heaven; Life; Prayer; Nativity, The; Paradise


A CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loving looks the large-eyed cow
Last Line: We are his, as well as thou.
Subject(s): Christmas; Prayer; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by AGNES GILES NEWMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lord, I will dress thy shrine with garlands gay
Last Line: For those whom thou and I, dear lord, hold dear.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Night; Prayer; Nativity, The; Bedtime


A CHRISTMAS REVERIE, by WILLIAM HARPER HUFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Christmas comes again with all the
Last Line: This sparkling breath of fancy!
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS SCENE; OR, LOVE IN THE COUNTRY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hill blast comes howling through leaf-rifted trees
Last Line: What care I? -- my darling's entwined in my arms.
Subject(s): Christmas; Country Life; Love; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS SONG, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blow, wind, blow
Last Line: And christmas that comes so near.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS SONG, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then from his throne the godhead bowed
Last Line: To wait the coming lord!
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Waiting; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS SONG, by HATTIE SANFORD RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The oak is a strong and stalwart tree
Last Line: By the beautiful christmas tree.
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Oak Trees; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS SONNET; FOR ONE IN DOUBT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While you that in your sorrow disavow
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


A CHRISTMAS STORY, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up, gregory! The cloudy east
Last Line: At midnight on the snow.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS STORY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The windows and the garden door
Last Line: May o'er it soonest be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Christmas; Legends; Nativity, The


A CHRISTMAS THOUGHT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweetest gift the father's love
Last Line: That thrilled the bethlehem way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


A CHRISTMAS WISH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bright and blessed christmas day
Last Line: This is my christmas wish to thee!
Variant Title(s): Christmas Gifts: 3
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


A CHRISTMAS WISH, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: At christmas season's glad return
Last Line: And god's rich love be understood.
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


A CHRISTMAS WISH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, santa claus! I ask no toys
Last Line: The gracious presence of a friend.
Subject(s): Christmas; Friendship; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


A CHRISTMAS-TIME JINGLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dears, do you know, one short
Last Line: And lit his old pipe with the end of his nose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Santa Claus; Uncles; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


A COUNTRY CAROL, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There the patient oxen were, by the ass's stall
Last Line: In the open country-land of my good lord!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Christmas; Country Life; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Nativity, The; The Resurrection


A CRADLE SONG, by PADRAIC COLUM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O men from the fields!
Last Line: Her mantle of blue.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A CRADLE SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet dreams, form a shade / o'er my lovely infant's head
Last Line: Heaven and earth to peace beguiles.
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Mythology; Sleep; Nativity, The


A DEFECTIVE SANTA CLAUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Allus when our pa he's away
Last Line: "trip bark' two times 'fore it's ""a-men!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Family Life; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Relatives; Nicholas, Saint


A DESIRE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, to have dwelt in bethlehem
Last Line: And worship and believe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Christmas; Desire; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


A DUBIOUS 'OLD KRISS', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Us-folks is purty pore - but ma
Last Line: "him skite out -- an' it wuz her pa."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Family Life; Childhood; Nativity, The; Relatives


A DUTCH CHRISTMAS UP THE HUDSON IN THE TIME OF PATROONS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the ruddy hearth, lo, the green bough!
Last Line: Happy harvest of the conscience on many christmas days.
Subject(s): Christmas; Hudson Valley, New York; Nativity, The


A FEEL IN THE CHRISTMAS-AIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They's a kind o' feel in the air, to me
Last Line: The sad-sweet feel in the air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Air; Children; Christmas; Childhood; Nativity, The


A HAPPY CHRISTMAS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A happy christmas to you
Last Line: His kingdom in thy heart shall never pass away.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this auspicious, memorable morn
Last Line: We are, in christ, eternally alive.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology


A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherds watch their flocks by night
Last Line: The offspring of this world below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Nativity, The; Theology


A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY (2), by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christians awake, salute the happy morn
Last Line: [or, of angels, and of angel-men, the king.]
Variant Title(s): Christmas Carol
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Religion; Theology


A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY (BEING A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THREE SHEPHERDS), by JEREMY TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is this blessed babe
Last Line: How good! How great! Even as our misery.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


A HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS MORNING, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the christmas time
Last Line: "behold the christ of god!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A HYMN TO THE VIRGIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of on that [pat] is so fayr and bright
Last Line: "mayde milde, moder es / effecta"
Variant Title(s): A Hymn To Mary;in Praise Of Mary
Subject(s): Christmas;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "nativity, The;virgin Mary;


A LETTER TO MARY, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Unto the white narcissus that you sent
Last Line: Refuse the door to death lest you slip through.
Subject(s): Christmas; Parties; Nativity, The


A LITTLE CALENDAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: January's new, / february's cold
Last Line: Will soon be here!
Subject(s): Calendars; Children; Christmas; January; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


A LITTLE CHRISTMAS BASKET, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: De win' is hollahin' 'daih you' to de shuttahs an' de fiah
Last Line: Wid a little chrismus basket at de do'.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A LULLABY, by AGNES H. BEGBIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: See how the poppies nod
Last Line: --sings thee to sleep.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A LULLABY, by JANET LEWIS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lullee, lullay / I could not love thee more
Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


A MAN BY THE NAME OF BOLUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man by the name of bolus -- (all 'at we'll ever know
Last Line: Git up and smile white at 'em, with your hands crossed thataway!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Drinks & Drinking; Strangers; Nativity, The; Wine


A MERRIE CHRISTMAS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A merrie christmas' to you
Last Line: And a happy, happy year!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A MERRY CHRISTMAS - IN SPITE OF ALL!, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long years ago in london town
Last Line: Can rob us of our christmas cheer.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gays & Lesbians; Nativity, The; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


A MOTHER'S EVENING HYMN, by MARTIN LUTHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep well, my dear, sleep safe and free
Last Line: Till thou attain'st th' eternal light.
Subject(s): Christmas; Mothers; Nativity, The


A MOTHER-SONG, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Sleep, baby, sleep! The christmas stars are
Last Line: How christ, the son of mary, in bethlehem was born!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A NEW YEAR'S TIME AT WILLARDS'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's old man willards; an' his
Last Line: "an' s'repty's good enough fer you!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Auctions; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The


A NON-NATURAL CHRISTMAS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O christmas hollies! O thrice-blessed morn!
Last Line: Woe to faint hearts! We must not falter here.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A PENITENT CONSIDERS ANOTHER COMING OF MARY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If mary came would mary / forgive, as mothers may
Last Line: If mary came again
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A POEM FOR CHRISTMAS, by C. A. SNODGRASS    Poem Text                    
First Line: If christmas brought me nothing more
Last Line: Most any soul with god's good will.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A RAY FROM CALVARY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O christmas, happy christmas, in the
Last Line: And catch the reflex of that ray that fell from calvary.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A RECIPE FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take a cup of thoughtfulness
Last Line: Christmas ever known.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A RHYME FOR CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If browning only were here
Last Line: Though it took us till christmas next year to see through it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Kisses; Rhyme; Nativity, The


A ROCKING HYMN, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet baby, sleep! What ails my dear?
Last Line: Be still, my babe, sweet baby, sleep.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A SACRED DIALOGUE (CHRISTMAS 1912), by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silver bishop of bethlehem
Last Line: The christmas day of the hosts!
Subject(s): Balkan Wars (1912, 1913); Christmas; Nativity, The


A SEASON IN HELL: MORNING, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet now I think I have finished the tale of my inferno
Last Line: The song of the skies, the march of peoples! Slaves, let us not curse life.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chant me a rhyme of christmas
Last Line: Run through the melody.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Rhyme; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The


A SUGGESTION, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I send, transmit, consign, convey
Last Line: "I wish you ""merry christmas."
Subject(s): Christmas; Expressionism - Poets; Letters; Postal Service; Nativity, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


A TALE OF CHRISTMAS EVE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas christmastide in germany
Last Line: And bade the crowd good-night, then went home content.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Kindness; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight


A THIEF, by LOUIS FRECHETTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas a bleak winter -- numbers of the poor
Last Line: To punish deeds their hearts reject as crimes.
Subject(s): Christmas; Crime & Criminals; Poverty; Nativity, The


A VIRGIN MOST PURE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a virgin most pure, as the prophets do tell"
Last Line: "christ jesus, our saviour, was born at this tide"
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS, by CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the night before christmas, when all through the house
Last Line: "happy christmas to all, and to all a good-night!"
Variant Title(s): The Night Before Christmas
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


A YEAR'S CAROLS: DECEMBER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: December, thou whose hallowing hands
Last Line: Makes glad all grief on land or sea.
Subject(s): Christmas; December; Seasons; Nativity, The


A, A, A, A, NUNC GAUDET ECCLSIA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listeneth, lordings, both great and small
Last Line: For fifty-two poyntes he les his lyf, %contra regis consilia
Variant Title(s): The Martyrdom Of Becke
Subject(s): Becket, Thomas. Saint (1118-1170); Christmas Carols; Saints


ABC'S OF CHRISTMAS, by GLORIA A. TRUITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Advent is a special word
Subject(s): Christmas


ABOVE THE STABLE, by NONA KEEN DUFFY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Lies a soverign %high and holy!
Subject(s): Christmas


ADESTE FIDELES, by BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O come, all ye faithful
Last Line: Christ the lord.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


ADESTE FIDELES, by M. PORTUGAL    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


ADESTS FIDELES (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O come, all ye faithful
Last Line: Word of the father, %now in flesh appearing
Subject(s): Christmas


ADORATION OF THE MAGI, by CHRISTOPHER PILLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was the arrival of the kings
Subject(s): Christmas


ADORATION OF THE WISE MEN, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saw you never in the twilight
Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas


ADVENT, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once to this troubled world
Last Line: To weary eyes.
Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Hope; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Worship; Infants; Nativity, The; Optimism


ADVENT (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth grown old, yet still so green
Last Line: Earth grown old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Advent
Subject(s): Advent; Christmas; Nativity, The


ADVENT 1955, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


ADVENT CALENDAR, by GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bethlehem in germany
Last Line: When I touch the shining crumbs
Alternate Author Name(s): Schnackenberg, Gertrude
Subject(s): Christmas


ADVENT MEDITATION, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No sudden thing of glory and fear
Last Line: The food and raiment of the child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Variant Title(s): No Sudden Thing Of Glory
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


ADVENT: A CAROL, by PATRIC DICKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: What did you hear?
Subject(s): Christmas


AFRICAN CHRISTMAS, by JOHN PRESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here are no signs of festival
Subject(s): Christmas


AFRICAN WITCHCRAFT, by ARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, hero-child of mary queen
Subject(s): Christmas


AFTER CHRISTMAS, by MICHAEL+(1) RICHARDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Darkness begins a %retreat
Subject(s): Christmas


AFTER CHRISTMAS A LANDLORD REMEMBERS, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day my wife, the maids, the men
Last Line: But there's gold buried near the wall %and the beasts still act queer
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas


AFTERTHOUGHT, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: For weeks before it comes I feel excited, yet when it
Subject(s): Christmas


ALL BELLS IN PARADISE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over yonder's a park, which is newly begun
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ALL THAT 'LIEVE IN CHRISTIAN LAY, WORSHIP, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man was the first guilt
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ALL THE MERRIER IS THAT PLACE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun of grace him shineth in
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ALL THIS TIME THIS SONG IS BEST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This night there is a child [y]born
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ALL YOU THAT ARE GOOD FELLOWS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ALLELUIA! ALELUIA! DEO PATRI SIT GLORIA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a blossom sprung of a thorn
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now may we mirthes make
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA ... DEO PATRI SIT GLORIA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, NOW SING WE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here comes holly that is so gent
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, DE VIRGINE MARIA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ALMA REDEMPTORIS MATER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I lay upon a night
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


AN ANCIENT CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He came all so still
Last Line: God's mother be
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


AN INDIGNATION DINNER, by JAMES DAVID CORROTHERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dey was hard times jes fo' christmas round our neighborhood one year
Last Line: Dat's all.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


AN ODE ON THE BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In numbers, and but these few
Last Line: A free-born of our citie.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


AN OFFERTORY, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, the beauty of the christ child
Last Line: Yet who hath seen his face?
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


AN OLD CHRISTMAS CAROL, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh wake ye, little children
Last Line: For this is christmas day.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Childhood; Nativity, The; Theology


AN UNMERRY CHRISTMAS, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas, you tell me, comes but once a year
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


AND LO, THE STAR!, by MOLLY WHITFORD ANDERSON HALEY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


ANE SANG OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, by MARTIN LUTHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My saull and lyfe, stand up and see
Last Line: And sing that rycht balulalow.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


ANE SONG OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I come from heaven to tell
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ANGEL'S SONG; CAROL (WITH MUSIC), by EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It came upon the midnight clear
Last Line: And the whole world send back the song %which now the angels sing
Variant Title(s): Peace On Eart
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols


ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Gloria in excelsis deo!
Subject(s): Christmas


ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Angels we have heard on high, sweetly singing o'er the plains
Last Line: While our hearts in love we raise
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Gloria in excelsis deo!
Subject(s): Christmas


ANGELS' SONG, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fear not, shepherds, for I bring
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Christmas


ANGLO-NORMAN CAROL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lordings, listen to our lay
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols


ANIMAL SHELTER, by BETTY PARASKEVAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Junior kroll thought santa claus
Last Line: And the dogs and cats all sang along
Subject(s): Christmas


ANIMALS AT THE MANGER, by RUDOLF O. WIEMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the dog. With a shepard lad
Subject(s): Christmas


ANNIE, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christmas began with cousins
Last Line: With the laughter of aunts %all around
Subject(s): Christmas


ANNUNCIATION, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Nothing will ease the pain to come
Last Line: And great salvations grip her side
Subject(s): Christmas


ANNUNCIATION NIGHT, by KATHERINE ELEANOR CONWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was night in the village of nazareth
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible


ANNUNCIATION TO ALL WOMEN, by AGNES C. FOOTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The angel came with lilies three
Subject(s): Christmas


ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPHERDS FROM ABOVE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look up, you men. Men at the fire there, you
Last Line: Thrown by her inwardness, which is your guide
Subject(s): Christmas


ANONYMOUS VERSE; FROM A PUERTO RICAN CHRISTMAS CARD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lady santa ana %why does the child cry?
Last Line: One for the child %and one for you
Subject(s): Christmas


ANOTHER CHRISTMAS POEM, by WENDY COPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bloody christmas, here again
Last Line: And make them do rhe washing-up
Subject(s): Christmas


ANOTHER TO THE MAIDS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wassaile the trees, that they may beare
Last Line: As you doe give them wassailing.
Variant Title(s): Ceremonies For Christmas (2)
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


ANOTHER YEAR, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth giveth unto us
Subject(s): Christmas


ANOTHER YEAR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another year it may betide
Last Line: Christ may send such a year
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ANSWER TO PRAYER, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Der ain't no use in sayin' de lawd won't answer / prah
Last Line: Night.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Nativity, The; Theology


ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 2. ANTHEME FOR CHRISTMAS DAY, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immortal babe, who this dear day
Last Line: Joy in your dear redeemers birth.
Variant Title(s): For Christmas Day
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Nativity, The


AS I WENT THROUGH A GARDEN GREEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


AT BETHLEHEM: 1. THE CHILD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long, long before the babe could speak
Last Line: For they are motherless.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Nativity, The


AT BETHLEHEM: 2, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where were ye, birds, that bless his name
Last Line: That made the blossom and the bird?
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Nativity, The


AT CANDLEMAS, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If candlemas be fine and clear
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Christmas


AT CHRISTMAS, by ARTHUR SHEARLY CRIPPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strew our green earth - flowers!
Subject(s): Christmas


AT CHRISTMAS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man is at his finest towards the finish of the
Last Line: That at christmas man is almost what god sent him here to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


AT CHRISTMAS TIME, by W. G. PARK    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


AT CHRISTMAS-TIME, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For that old love I once adored
Last Line: "when joy bells chime."
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


AT CHRISTMASTIDE, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


AT THE MANGER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When first her christmas watch to keep
Last Line: He saw his mother's face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


AT THE SIGN OF THE JOLLY JACK, by GEOFFREY SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: You merry folk, be of good cheer
Last Line: And bury the night ere morning come.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


ATTENDANTS, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mild-eyed oxen and the gentle ass
Last Line: Something that chanced because the inn was full.
Subject(s): Animals; Asses & Mules; Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Oxen; Nativity, The


AUNT, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've come all the way home
Last Line: And I am happy %to be here
Subject(s): Christmas


AWAY IN A MANGER, by WILLIAM JAMES KIRKPATRICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Away in a manger, no crib for a
Last Line: And fit us for heaven, to live with thee there
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


BABUSHKA [OR, BABOUSCKA]; A RUSSIAN LEGEND, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Babushka sits before the fire
Last Line: "nay, farther must I go!"
Subject(s): Christmas; Legends, Russian; Nativity, The


BABY ZULMA'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, by AUGUSTUS JULIAN REQUIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lighter scarf of richer fold
Last Line: For thee, for thine, for all, he died!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas Carols; Childhood


BABY'S FIRST CHRISTMAS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They took away my bottle
Last Line: They make such noises in my ear.
Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Christmas Gifts; Infants; Nativity, The


BAKER EXTRAORDINAIRE, by BETTY PARASKEVAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Junior kroll stirs the bowl
Last Line: That was a nice thing for ruby to do
Subject(s): Christmas


BALLAD OF CALNAN'S CHRISTMAS, by HELEN GRAY CONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you hear the fire-gongs beat fierce along the startled street
Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus
Subject(s): Christmas; Courage


BALLAD OF WISE MEN, by GEORGE M. P. BAIRD    Poem Source                    
First Line: When that our gentle lord was born
Subject(s): Christmas


BALLADE OF A DENATURED CHRISTMAS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mince pie goes without its sherry
Last Line: I'll spend my christmas day with dickens.
Subject(s): Christmas; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Nativity, The


BALLADE OF AN ANNUAL DIFFICULTY, by TED ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who named the best of holidays
Last Line: "for ""christmas"" hasn't any rhyme!"
Subject(s): Christmas; Rhyme; Nativity, The


BALLADE OF CHRISTMAS GHOSTS, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the moonlight and the fire
Last Line: The ghosts we all can raise at will!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


BALLADE OF OLD LOVES, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is it stands on the polished stair
Subject(s): Christmas


BARBERRIES, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red against weather-beaten wood
Last Line: As then, the eternal, the extraordinary stars
Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Christmas


BARN, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am tired of this barn!' said the colt
Last Line: But we looked at him first of all creatures %by the bright strange light of a star!
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Barns; Christmas


BC-AD, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was the moment when before
Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A.
Subject(s): Christmas; Time; Nativity, The


BC-AD, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was the moment when before
Last Line: Into the kingdom of heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A.
Subject(s): Christmas; Time


BE MERRY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "be merry, be merry, I pray you"
Last Line: "be merry, be merry, I pray you, be merry every one"
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


BEARING MYRRH, by ROBERTA ROBERSON CHILDERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The desert welcomes christmas
Last Line: In humble reverence.
Subject(s): Christmas; Deserts; Food & Eating; Nativity, The


BEGGAR'S RHYME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christmas is coming, %the geese are getting fat
Last Line: If you haven't got a %ha'penny god bless you!
Subject(s): Christmas


BEHIND THE ARRAS; A CHRISTMAS MASQUE, by HARRY SINCLAIR LEWIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What star has given thee its care
Last Line: Inquiringly.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Sinclair
Subject(s): Christmas; Yale University; Nativity, The


BEING DAD ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They've hung their stockings up with care
Last Line: To be their dad on christmas eve.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Christmas; Fathers; Nativity, The


BELLS OF CHRISTMAS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pilgrim, you of the loosened lachet
Subject(s): Christmas


BETHLEHEM, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long was the road to bethlehem
Subject(s): Christmas


BETHLEHEM, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There man was all too marred with sin
Last Line: Once in the stable on the hay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


BETHLEHEM ROAD, by IDA NORTON MUNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Past the closed portals of eartly kings
Subject(s): Christmas


BETHLEHEM; CAROL, by WILLIAM CANTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the herds were watching
Subject(s): Christmas


BILL'S CHRISTMASES, by CICELY FOX SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas,' said bill, 'on christmas
Last Line: "an' a chap beside me on the yard says, 'bill, it's christmas day!'"
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


BIRDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From out of a wood did a cuckoo fly
Subject(s): Christmas


BIRDS PRAISE THE ADVENT OF THE SAVIOUR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When in the eastern skies the wondrous star did rise
Subject(s): Christmas


BIRTH AT BETHLEHEM, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When jordan hushed his waters still
Subject(s): Christmas


BIRTHDAY CARD FOR A PSYCHIATRIST, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your friends come fondly to your living room
Last Line: To join us in this neurotic enterprise
Subject(s): Christmas Cards; Psychiatry


BLACK CHRISTMAS, by DUBOSE HEYWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is cruel for a woman with her man gone
Last Line: "an' the younguns allas hungry, an' winter comin' on."
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Negroes; American Blacks; Nativity, The


BLACK CHRISTMAS, by GYORGY PETRI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm forty, I can't tell what will come
Last Line: Ever-diminishing, spurts
Subject(s): Christmas


BLACK CHRISTMAS, by PATRICK TODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a dark christ hangs %on a bunker wall
Last Line: To enemy offers russian tanks roll 'geese on water' %and hitler's sixth %army is butchered in the s
Subject(s): Christmas


BLACK MADONNA, by ALBERT RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not as the white nations
Last Line: The untaught %of earth
Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible


BLESS US, DEAR GOD, by CHRISTOPHER IDLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: O god our father
Subject(s): Christmas


BLESSED BE THAT LADY BRIGHT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: God's son is born, his mother is a maid
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


BLESSED BIRD, AS I YOU SAY, THAT DIED AND ROSE ..., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On christes day, I understand
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


BLESSED MAY THOU BE, SWEET JESUS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By thy birth, thou blessed lord
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


BLOOMING OF THE WHITE THORN, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God shield ye, comrades of the road!
Subject(s): Christmas; Glastonbury Thorn


BOAR IS DEAD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


BOAR'S HEAD CAROL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boar's head in hand bear I, be decked with bay and rosemary. And I
Last Line: Ca - put a -pri de - fer -o, red-dens lau -des dom -I -no
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


BOARDING: 2. HOLIDAYS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In maths, geeta's long black plait
Last Line: When jesus was born, it was quiet like this
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Schools; India; Nativity, The; Students


BOARDING: 2. HOLIDAYS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In maths, geeta's long black plait
Last Line: When jesus was born, it was quiet, like this
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Schools


BOBBY'S PRESENTS, by ELSIE DUNCAN YALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've just bought a present for mother
Subject(s): Christmas


BONE, GOD WOT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


BOOTS AND SADDLES, by NICHOLAS SABOLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our shepherds all %as pilgrims have departed
Subject(s): Christmas


BORN IS JESUS, THE INFANT KING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born is jesus, the infant king, play merry o boes sweet pipes resounding
Last Line: Ah, how fair is the child we sing, he is lovely, the infant king!
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


BORN IS THE BABE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


BRAWN OF ENGLAND'S LAY, by JOHN HUNTER-DUVAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The villeins clustered round the bowl
Last Line: "and thrall."
Alternate Author Name(s): Duvar, John Hunter
Subject(s): Christmas; Drinks & Drinking; Nativity, The; Wine


BRINDISI (1), by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who's that knocking on the window
Last Line: Herod is his name
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Christmas


BRING A TORCH, JEANETTE, ISABELLA (WITH MUSIC), by NICHOLAS SABOLY    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Child is sleeping; hush! Hush! See how he smiles in dreams
Subject(s): Christmas


BRING A TORCH, JEANNETTE ISABELLA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bring a torch, jeannette isabella! Bring a
Last Line: Do! Do! Do! See the baby smile!
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


BROTHER HUBERT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Holy-thoughted brother hubert
Last Line: Hadst thou staid I must have fled
Subject(s): Charity;christmas; "philanthropy;nativity, The;


BROWNIE MEN, by M. NORA BOYLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Merry, merry sprites are we
Subject(s): Christmas


BRYNGYNGE IN THE BORE'S HEAD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boar's head in hand I bring
Subject(s): Christmas


BUNDLES, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A bundle is a funny thing
Last Line: Now wouldn't it be much more fun %if shoppers carried thingsundone?
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Imagination


BURGUNDIAN CAROL, by BERNARD DE LA MONNOYE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Willie, take your little drum
Last Line: Dance, and make the village hum!
Alternate Author Name(s): La Monnoye, Bernard De; Monnoye, Bernard De La
Variant Title(s): Patapa
Subject(s): Christmas; Dancing And Dancers


BURNING THE CHRISTMAS GREENS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Their time past, pulled down
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


BURNING THE CHRISTMAS GREENS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their time past, pulled down
Last Line: Ourselves refreshed among %the shining fauna of that fire
Subject(s): Christmas


BY-BY, LULLABY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a dream late as I lay
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


BYGONE YEAR, by ARTHUR KETCHUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once gone we call to deafened ears
Subject(s): Christmas


CALIFORNIA'S CHRISTMAS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars are large as lilies! Morn
Last Line: I would not seek another.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): California; Christmas; Nativity, The


CAMELS OF THE KINGS, by LESLIE NORRIS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


CAMELS, THE KINGS' CAMELS, by LESLIE NORRIS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


CAPUT APRI REFERO RESONENS LAUDES DOMINO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


CARAVANS, by EMILY PATTERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The shaggy camels kneel upon the sand
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I sat on a sunny bank
Last Line: On christmas day in the morning
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CAROL, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three kings from out the orient
Last Line: "withouten dreed, the loveliest."
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CAROL, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh hush thee, my baby
Last Line: The price of a soul
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vines branching stilly
Last Line: But she hath kissed her flower where the wounds are to be.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


CAROL, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The warmth of cows
Last Line: A man of sorrows %and friend to grief
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL, by BERNARD JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sing the birth was born to-night
Last Line: Can man forget the story?
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: God is this son
Last Line: And give you glory
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL, by NORMAN NICHOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary laid her child among
Last Line: And by the death within his bones %the dead became alive
Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible


CAROL, by PHILIPP NICOLAI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wake, awake, for night is flying
Last Line: To praise thee ages all along
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is the royal babe arrayed?'
Last Line: In excelsis gloria!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


CAROL, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joseph was an old man
Last Line: Oh, was that not a poor place %to house jesus christ in?
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in the fading leaves of night
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is christmas without %snow? We need it
Last Line: Scarecrow to wear its heart %on, bold as a robin
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Christmas; Snow


CAROL (WITH MUSIC), by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: People, look east. The time is near
Last Line: The lord is on the way
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL (WITH MUSIC), by ATHELSTAN RILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye watchers and ye holy ones
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL (WITH MUSIC), by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From heaven high I come to you
Last Line: To chant a glad new year like this
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL BRINGING IN THE BOAR'S HEAD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CAROL FOR CHILDREN, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God rest you, merry innocents
Last Line: A sweeter christmas than we to ours %may you bequeath to yours
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL FOR CHRISTMAS TIDE, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ox he openeth wide the doore
Last Line: Between her bosom and his hayre!
Variant Title(s): Tryste Noel
Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Oxen; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


CAROL FOR THE LAST CHRISTMAS EVE, by NORMAN NICHOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first night, the first night
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL FOR THE TWELFTH DAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mark well my heavy doleful tale
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL NAIVE, by JOHN MCCLURE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Was never none other / like our god's mother
Last Line: Like our god's mother.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


CAROL OF HUNTING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I came by a green forest-side
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CAROL OF PATIENCE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shepherds armed with staff and sling
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL OF THE BIRDS, by ? BAS-QUERCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whence comes this rush of wings afar
Last Line: Join in the shout,'noel, noel!'
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols


CAROL OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come to bethlehem and ye shall see
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CAROL OF THE BROWN KING, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the three wise men
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Negroes; American Blacks; Nativity, The


CAROL OF THE BROWN KING, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the three wise men
Last Line: Part of his %nativity
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas


CAROL OF THE POOR CHILDREN, by RICHARD MIDDLETON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are the poor children, come out to see the sights
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL OF THE RUSSIAN CHILDREN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snowbound mountains, snowbound valleys
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL OF THE THREE KINGS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How long ago we dreamed
Last Line: The grove of a few hands
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL OF THE THREE KINGS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here and away in good faith we pace
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL, BROTHERS, CAROL, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL, CAROL, TENDERLY AND SWEETLY, by ANNE LINDSAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnard, Lady Anne
Subject(s): Christmas


CAROL: NEW STYLE, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If jesus christ should come again
Last Line: On christmas day in the morning.
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Crucifixion; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion


CAST OFF ALL DOUBTFUL CARE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CAT, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is a strange season
Last Line: The quiet house, %the warm fire
Subject(s): Christmas


CATASTROPHE, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: If old kriss kringle should forget
Subject(s): Christmas


CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, bring with a noise
Last Line: To fill the paste that's a kneading.
Variant Title(s): Yule Log
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CEREMONIES TO THE MAIDS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wash your hands, or else the fire
Last Line: Dead the fire, though ye blow.
Subject(s): Christmas; Household Employees; Nativity, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids


CHANSON INNOCENTE: 2, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little tree
Last Line: "noel noel"
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHARITY, by JAY BEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cheerily ring the christmas bells
Subject(s): Christmas


CHARMS, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The christmas I was seven my father left - for good this time
Last Line: Lights illuminate him bent to the task of putting together a bike %painted a strange shade of green
Subject(s): Absence; Christmas; Fathers; Gifts And Giving


CHERRY TREE CAROL (3), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joseph was an old man, an old man was
Last Line: Will tremble with glee
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHERRY TREE CAROL (4), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joseph was an old man
Last Line: Then mary went home %with her heavy load
Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible


CHERRY-TREE CAROL (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joseph was an old man
Last Line: O the sun and the moon, mother %shall both rise with me
Subject(s): Christmas


CHILD JESUS IN THE GARDEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cold was the day, when in a garden bare
Subject(s): Christmas


CHILD THIS DAY IS BORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Because the king of all kings %was born this blessed day
Subject(s): Christmas


CHILD'S CAROL, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Naked boy, brown boy
Last Line: —christ is born!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Childhood; Nativity, The


CHILD'S CHRISTMAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He opens his eyes with a cry of delight
Subject(s): Christmas


CHILD'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ used to be like you and me
Last Line: Our hearts go singing up to thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Childhood


CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner
Subject(s): Christmas; Children; Wales; Nativity, The; Childhood; Welshmen; Welshwomen


CHILDERMAS RHYME, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Babes in the wood
Subject(s): Christmas


CHILDLESS CHRISTMAS, by ROWENA MILLAR KELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mary, from your throne of grace
Last Line: Who put no child tonight to bed.
Subject(s): Childlessness; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


CHILDLIKE HEART, by ELLEN WESTON CATLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The christmas star burns overhead
Subject(s): Christmas


CHILDREN AT CHRISTMAS IN 1945, by VLADIMIR HOLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw children at christmas in 1945
Last Line: How to safeguard so military intervention won't become necessary
Subject(s): Christmas; Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime


CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS EVE, by JOHN KEBLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rejoice in god alway
Subject(s): Christmas


CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS EVE CAROL FROM ECKINGTON, DERBYSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw three ships come sailing by
Last Line: To think that christ was born a king %at christmas day in the morning
Subject(s): Christmas


CHILDRREN'S CAROL, by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we come again, again, and here we come again
Subject(s): Christmas


CHIMNEY DRUMMER-BOY, by WILLIAM J. LONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a boy I know, and he drums all day
Subject(s): Christmas


CHOCOLATE PIGS, by BETTY PARASKEVAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Junior kroll saved his nickels and dimes
Last Line: As they shimmered on the snow outside the window all night
Subject(s): Christmas


CHREES'MAS TIME, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISMUS IS A-COMIN', by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bones a-gittin' achy
Last Line: An' all de week is ouahs
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISMUS ON THE PLANTATION, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It was chrismus eve, I mind hit fu' a mighty gloomy day
Last Line: So evahone was gay dat night, an' watched de chrismus in.
Subject(s): Christmas; Slavery; Southern States; Nativity, The; Serfs; South (u.s.)


CHRIST CANDLE, by KATE LOUISE BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little taper set tonight
Last Line: So the bells on christmas morn, %glad shall ring, 'a christ is born!'
Variant Title(s): The Christmas Candl
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRIST CHILD TO THE CHRISTMAS LAMB, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little lamb
Last Line: The god of all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRIST CHILD'S CHRISTMAS, by LAURA SPENCER PORTOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, brother christ, come play with me
Last Line: And overhead, the angel train %waited the christ-child all in vain
Variant Title(s): The Christ-chil
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry


CHRIST'S NATIVITY, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake, glad heart! Get up and sing!
Last Line: Must not be numbered in the year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once more the tender christ child's feet
Last Line: The marvel of thy birth.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Childhood; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bells of waiting advent ring
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


CHRISTMAS, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bells of waiting advent ring
Last Line: That god was man in palestine %and lives today in bread and wine
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion


CHRISTMAS, by MARCHETTE CHUTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My goodness, my goodness
Last Line: And I am behaving %as calm as I can
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by GRANT HYDE CODE    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the day the great god pan lies dead
Last Line: To soothe his sobbing with the pipes of pan.
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Christmas has come, let's eat and drink
Last Line: And welcome to all kinds of men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Step wid de banjo an' glide wid de fiddle
Last Line: Possums ain' skace w'en dey's lots o' pu'simmons.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis christmas day! 'tis christmas day!
Last Line: And christmas carols sing.
Subject(s): Bells; Christianity; Christmas Carols; Churches; Happiness; Jesus Christ; Singing & Singers; Cathedrals; Joy; Delight; Songs


CHRISTMAS, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The rills that winter-bound have been
Last Line: Is smiling on the earth.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Snow; Winter; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight


CHRISTMAS, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavens are black, the earth is white
Last Line: "sing to the shepherds, ""christ is born."
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunbeams glitter on the mountain snow
Last Line: Congenial mirth and cordial sympathy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At christmas time dan cupid plays
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Youth, in the heart of faith now wearing old
Last Line: Eternal in youth, and hope, and love and home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Christmas; Hope; Love; Youth; Nativity, The; Optimism


CHRISTMAS, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What, do they suppose that everything
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by MARIA JAMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let us chaunt the solemn lay
Last Line: "peace on earth, -- good-will to man!'"
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by ARTHUR FREDERICK JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once more, o life, the holy time is here
Last Line: In answer when he hears our lonely call.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail the coming holiday
Last Line: Christmas day once more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


CHRISTMAS, by ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our christmas is a time of make-believe
Last Line: That if our god can fail, we too were best unborn
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by ESTHER BERGMAN NAREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Just for today, dear lord, give me the faith
Last Line: Of reindeer speeding through the christmas skies.
Subject(s): Christmas; Faith; Reindeer; Nativity, The; Belief; Creed


CHRISTMAS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say: but cattle near
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say: but cattle near
Last Line: Told the home -- truth of man
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by HARRIET WHEELER PIERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A simple tale of shepherds and of sheep
Last Line: And to the dear, familiar things, a star!
Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Stars; Infants; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The biggest tree in provence
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The biggest tree in provence
Last Line: In the sky at the road's end
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by ELIZABETH STANTON RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a wondrous peace lies on this earth
Last Line: Peace on earth to all of you - %a merry christmas there!
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I feel the cold of the night
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I feel the cold of night
Last Line: And when he sees us he'll break into tears
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ


CHRISTMAS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We love to think of bethlehem
Last Line: Comes yet on christmas day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a country far, far away
Last Line: Love divine, all love excelling,' %in our hearts hold perfect sway
Subject(s): Christmas; Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)


CHRISTMAS, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A child is born, they cry, a child
Last Line: And he is born to make men wild
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by FRANK HERBERT SWEET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ho! Ho! Thrice ho! For the mistletoe
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a morning
Last Line: With the sharp taste %of blood they will shed
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How grace this hallowed day?
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How grace this hallowed day?
Last Line: And peace in all our hearts
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have no wish
Last Line: Of smoke %from the stove
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, by EDWARD HILTON YOUNG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A boy was born at bethlehem
Last Line: They saw with love most passionate %the village street at nazarene
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennet Of The Dene, 1st Baron
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS (1), by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O time by holy prophets long foretold
Last Line: May live one day for thee!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS (1), by KIM JONGGIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like our hearts too calloused for tears
Last Line: May kindly snow shower down like white blossoms
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world his cradle is
Last Line: With penitential tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS (1), by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us go a journey'
Last Line: She wept, 'o my lord!'
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Happiness; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight


CHRISTMAS (2), by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This happy day, whose risen sun
Last Line: That drew thee to us from the skies!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS (2), by KIM JONGGIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the darkened room
Last Line: Must have melted in my blood and circulate in my organs
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The womb of silence bears the eternal word
Last Line: Mothers the heaven-born child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS (3), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over the hills of palestine
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS 1941, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In plain december, crisp gift
Last Line: His ringing rage across the world
Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Christmas


CHRISTMAS 1944, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright cards above the fire bring no friends near
Subject(s): Christmas; World War Ii; Nativity, The; Second World War


CHRISTMAS 1944, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright cards above the fire bring no friends near
Last Line: Hearing hatred crackle in the coal, %the voice of treason, the voice of love
Subject(s): Christmas; World War Ii


CHRISTMAS 1956, by GYORGY PETRI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the twentieth, at a certain moment
Last Line: Dropped in the wrong place that I am here: %small, alien, and gone cold
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS 1959, by GERALD WILLIAM BARRAX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where is the star of bethlehem
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays


CHRISTMAS 1970, by SPIKE MILLIGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little girl called sile javotte
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS 1987, by MIKE MESERVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wild star leading the three
Last Line: Clean night, the quiet room, the breathing child
Subject(s): Christmas; Night


CHRISTMAS 1987, by JOHN PETER SCUPHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once more I cover this nakedness which is my own
Last Line: Thirsts for that promise kept; her one desire %the pure trouble of fire, and what will become of fir
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS ACROSTIC, by ROSAMUND LIVINGSTONE MCNAUGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: C is for christmas, best day of the year!
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS ACROSTIC, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: M - errily ring the christmas bells
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS AFT ERTHOUGHT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After a thoughtful, almost painful
Last Line: "when he wuz ist a little boy like me!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Thought; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint; Thinking


CHRISTMAS AFTER WAR, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall misery make mirth
Last Line: Their bethlehem.
Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; War; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness


CHRISTMAS ALONE IN KEY WEST, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That christmas alone in no difference really
Last Line: Is there's no reason to go and less to stay
Subject(s): Christmas; Selkirk, Alexander (1676-1721); Solitude


CHRISTMAS ALONG THE WIRES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Junction-station - pilot knob
Last Line: "I'll be there on number nine.'"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Office Work; Telegraph; Nativity, The; Telegrams


CHRISTMAS AND THE OLD YEAR, by ROSAMUND LIVINGSTONE MCNAUGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ring softly, bells, your message sweet
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS ANTIPHONES: 1. IN CHURCH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou whose birth on earth
Last Line: Bid the day be born.
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; God; Jesus Christ; Life; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS AT INDIAN POINT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is that calling through the night
Last Line: "and sobbed and sobbed, 'o emily.'"
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS AT SEA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand
Last Line: Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Christmas; Sea; Travel; Nativity, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


CHRISTMAS AT THE CAPE, by JOHN RUNCIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your christmas comes with holly leaves
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME, by JANE KENYON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her sickness brought me to connecticut.
Last Line: Forwarded, will begin to reach me here
Subject(s): Christmas; Absence; Nativity, The; Separation; Isolation


CHRISTMAS BAZAAR, by BETTY PARASKEVAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Junior kroll hopped out of the car
Last Line: Junior'd outfoxed that bully again
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS BELL DRILL, by M. NORA BOYLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweetly chime, sweetly chime
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS BELLS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are sounds in the sky when the year grows old
Last Line: Mingle the chimes of the christmas bells!
Subject(s): Bells;christmas; "nativity, The;


CHRISTMAS BELLS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The years come not back that have circled away
Last Line: "of solemn joy, o christmas bells!"
Subject(s): Bells;christmas;happiness;music & Musicians; "nativity, The;joy;delight;


CHRISTMAS BELLS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do your clear bells ring to me
Last Line: So many dead! So many dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War


CHRISTMAS BELLS, by JOHN KEBLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wake me tonight, my mother dear
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS BELLS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the bells on christmas day
Last Line: "with peace on earth, good will to men."
Variant Title(s): The Chant Sublime;the Unbroken Song;peace On Earth
Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Christmas Carols; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS BELLS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, christmas bells, your music swells upon
Last Line: Honest youth, the days he's left so far behind.
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


CHRISTMAS BELLS, by EMMA CELIA ROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ring, christmas bells
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS BELLS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are you waking?' shout the breezes
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS BELLS, SAIGON, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buses came late, each driver sullen
Last Line: The bells all through the night
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


CHRISTMAS BILLS, by JOSEPH HATTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: See dear pater with the bills
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS BLESSING, by JR. FRANKLIN D. ELMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father, send us for this meal
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS BOX, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gladly the boy, with christmas box in hand
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS BOX FOR NAMBY PAMBY, SELS., by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the day is almost peeping
Last Line: Fit for namby to rehearse
Subject(s): Christmas; Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749)


CHRISTMAS CAME TO MISSISSIPPI, by CHARLES GRANVILLE HAMILTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fireworks sputtered and crackled and exploded
Last Line: Peace on earth, good will to men.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS CARD, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have anti-freeze in the car, yes
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS CARD, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life in a christmas card
Last Line: Life in a christmas card %goes by slowly, %far from the world ...
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts And Giving; Holidays


CHRISTMAS CARD, AFTER THE ASSASSINATIONS, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is to be born already fidgets in the stem
Last Line: Who forms himself from a wish, our best or last
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: God bless the master of this house
Last Line: "I wish you a merry christmas, / and a happy new year"
Variant Title(s): Christmas-tide;the Singers In The Snow
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I saw three ships come sailing in, / on christmas day, on christmas day"
Last Line: On christmas day in the morning
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When christ in bethlehem was born
Last Line: "with peace on earth, good will to you!'"
Subject(s): Christmas Carols;holidays;singing & Singers


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As joseph was a-walking
Last Line: For his star it shineth clear
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by HARRY BEHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An angel told mary
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by CHRISTIAN BURKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trees are hung with crystal lamps
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stores wore christmas perfectly
Last Line: Morning after memory
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Carol, carol, christians
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They leave the land of gems and gold
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ring out, ye bells
Last Line: Throw all its power into singing!
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by THOMAS HELMORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christ was born on christmas day
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The darling of the world is come
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by JULIET C. MARSH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Into the silent waiting east
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ROSARIO MURILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walk today, the pain of childbirth in each step
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by D. J. OPPERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three outas from the high karoo
Last Line: And on her nest, throughout the whole affair %a bantam clucks with a suspicious stare
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by JAMES S. PARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: So crowded was the little town
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by MAY PROBYN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lacking samite and sable
Last Line: Sleepeth, three hours old.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by FRANCIS QUARLES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory to god on high, and jolly mirth
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kings they came from out the south
Last Line: Before the song was done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Magi; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clear as the silver call
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snow lay on the ground, the star shone bright
Last Line: To praise the father, son, %and holy ghost
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now is yole comen wyth gentil chere
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL, by GEORGE RATCLIFFE WOODWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: On twelfth-day morn, old christmas day
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS CAROL (1), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair gratitude! In strain sublime
Last Line: Redeemer! Lord!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL (2), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O lovely voices of the sky
Last Line: O star which led to him!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Variant Title(s): Hymn For Christmas
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snow lay on the ground, the star shone bright
Last Line: To praise the father, son, %and holy ghost
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS CAROL FOR CHILDREN, by MARTIN LUTHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good news from heaven the angels bring
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS CAROL: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoso hears a chiming for christmas at the nighest
Last Line: Life is good, and death is good, for christ is best.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A holy heavenly chime
Last Line: For christ is born a king.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROL: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! New born jesus
Last Line: To one and all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CAROLS EVERYWHERE, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It chanced upon the merry, merry christmas eve
Last Line: "angels singing."
Variant Title(s): A Christmas Carol;the Merry Christmas Eve
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS CAROLS IN THE GREAT CHURCH, by WILLIAM CANNON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The organ's viscous chords roar
Last Line: As these lives we've amde %eclipse our own
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS CHILD, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little one, who straight hast come
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS CHILDHOOD, by PATRICK KAVANAGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One side of the potato-pits was white with frost
Last Line: And I had a prayer like a white rose pinned %on the virgin mary's blouse
Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Fathers


CHRISTMAS CHILDREN, by M. NORA BOYLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Happy children here we stand
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS CHIME, by KATHLEEN KAVANAGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Keep time, keep time, glad christmas chime!
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS CITY, by PAUL ELKBEARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Winter's second snow is falling
Last Line: Sick and wanting.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR, by THOMAS MILLER (1807-1874)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those christmas bells as sweetly chime
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS COMMUNION, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come in, dear babe, and rest!
Last Line: For thee, for thee, the stable waits once more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Christmas; Eucharist; Nativity, The; Communion


CHRISTMAS DAWN IN FLORIDA, by FRANCES FREEMAN TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Broad bands of rose span all the eastern sky
Last Line: That we may, in thy strength, go forth to live.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS DAY, by MARY BARKER (CARTER) DODGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Feathery flakes are falling, falling
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS DAY, by ROY FULLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Small girls on trikes
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS DAY, by RUTH RAYMOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, chile, go hang yo' stockin's high
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS DAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A baby is a harmless thing
Last Line: Carol we and worship we.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all dear days is christmas day
Last Line: In all the winds that blow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Peace; Childhood; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS DAY, by CHRISTOPHER SMART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature's decorations glisten
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS DAY, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The morn broke bright: the thronging people wore
Last Line: Sweep hence this dying past that never dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS DAY, by CAROLINE ELEANOR WILKINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A loving atmosphere surrounds this day of ...
Last Line: The joy of heaven reaches us, this glad day of the year.
Subject(s): Christmas; Festivals; Happiness; Holidays; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants; Joy; Delight


CHRISTMAS DAY, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As on the night before this happy morn
Last Line: And showeth favour unto men.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS DAY, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night in the open shippen
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS DAY (WITH MUSIC), by CHARLES WESLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! The herald angels sing
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


CHRISTMAS DAY (WITH MUSIC), by CHARLES WESLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! The herald angels sing
Last Line: Glory to the new-born king. Amen
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Religion


CHRISTMAS DAY AND EVERY DAY, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Star high
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE WORKHOUSE, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is christmas day in the workhouse, and the cold, bare walls are bright
Last Line: "say what you did for me, too, only last christmas day."
Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS DAY, 1868, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How will it dawn, the coming christmas day?
Last Line: And keep them men indeed, fair christmas day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS DAY. THE FAMILY SITTING, by JOHN MEADE FALKNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the days of caesar augustus
Last Line: I may go up to jerusalem %out of galilee
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion


CHRISTMAS DINNER, by MICHAEL ROSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were all sitting around the table
Last Line: Much nicer place to be - %for a worm
Subject(s): Christmas; Worms


CHRISTMAS DINNER AT CHILDS', by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday the merchant-men
Last Line: To my land a hundred songs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Food & Eating; Restaurants; Nativity, The; Cafes; Diners


CHRISTMAS DOLLS, by LIZZIE J. ROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here we come with our christmas dolls
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS EPITHALAMIUM, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR.    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Now comes the ordered prime
Last Line: That holds all mystery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ - Life & Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


CHRISTMAS EVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The door is on the latch tonight
Last Line: Where love might enter in
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


CHRISTMAS EVE, by PATRICIA BEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The roofs over the shops
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS EVE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone - with one fair star for company
Last Line: That fair star trembles through my falling tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EVE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The north wind rustles in the roads
Last Line: His blessing gave to struggling men.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


CHRISTMAS EVE, by FRANK E. BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside my window whirls the ice storm
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS EVE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the little chapel I burst
Last Line: To conclude with the doxology.
Subject(s): Christmas; Second Advent; Nativity, The; Second Coming Of Christ


CHRISTMAS EVE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Salvation's angel in a tree
Last Line: I leave it on and go to bed
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EVE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Salvation's angel in a tree
Last Line: I leave it on and go to bed
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS EVE, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In holly hedges starving birds
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS EVE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark is the hour, long the night
Last Line: This is the birthday of the sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS EVE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On christmas eve I lay abed
Last Line: Dreamt of a new-born king.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EVE, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh hush thee, little dear-my-soul
Last Line: Thou shalt hear the master calling.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EVE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our hearts to-night are open wide
Last Line: Our hearts to-night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EVE, by FAITH EVELYN PACKARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I studied long
Last Line: I see a star!
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS EVE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend, old friend in the manse by the fireside sitting
Last Line: Give ye good-night, but first thank god in your prayers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Books; Christmas; Past; Time; Reading; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas hath darkness
Last Line: Brought for us so low.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EVE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the death-time of the year
Last Line: For christ, our lord, is born again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


CHRISTMAS EVE, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the orchestra stops playing, veiled
Subject(s): Christmas; Love; Night; Nativity, The; Bedtime


CHRISTMAS EVE, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the orchestra stops playing, veiled
Last Line: That the child-jesus of your love has been born
Subject(s): Christmas; Love; Night


CHRISTMAS EVE AT BETHLEHEM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The christ-thorn rustles in the hedge
Last Line: The snow-wind blown from lebanon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EVE AT ROSEMOUND CEMETERY, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And on the graves the poinsettias
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Christmas; Graveyards; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EVE IN FRANCE, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh little christ, why do you sigh
Last Line: "shall live for evermore."
Subject(s): Christmas; France; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EVE IN MEDFORD, by PATRICK TODD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Down from the medford depot %neon over the salvation army hums
Last Line: Mexican lace and blood red poinsettias %a small miracle
Subject(s): Christmas; Salvation Army


CHRISTMAS EVE IN WHITNEYVILLE, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: December, and the closing of the year;
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EVE ON THE ROAD, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Herkimer, canajoharie, gloversville, cooperstown
Last Line: Thinking nothing of the cold
Subject(s): Christmas; Cooperstown, New York; Fathers; Gloversville, New York; Travel


CHRISTMAS EVE UNDER HOOKER'S STATUE, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight a blackout. Twenty years ago
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EVE UNDER HOOKER'S STATUE, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight a blackout. Twenty years ago
Last Line: Till christ again turn wanderer and child
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS EVE, 1917, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many happy returns, sweet babe, of the day!
Last Line: Ever happier and happier returns, dear christ, of thy day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Christmas; England; World War I; Nativity, The; English; First World War


CHRISTMAS EVE, SHAWNEE, OHIO, by KIP KNOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My wife prays at midnight mass
Last Line: I've built with my heat stands open
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS EVE, SOUTH, 1865, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poverty, remorseless spectre
Last Line: For heaven is real, and earth deceiving.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Christmas; Reconstruction (1865-1876); Southern States; United States - History; Nativity, The; South (u.s.)


CHRISTMAS EVE: AUSTRALIA, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blows hot. English and foreign birds
Last Line: Curse lightly and pronounce your serious name
Subject(s): Australia; Christmas


CHRISTMAS EVERYWHERE, by PHILLIPS BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Everywhere, everywhere, christmas tonight
Last Line: No palace too great, no cottage too small.
Variant Title(s): A Christmas Carol
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS EXCHANGE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When bill gives me a book, I know
Last Line: So each gives twice - and that is pleasant - %to get the truly-wanted present
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


CHRISTMAS FAIRIES, by ROSAMUND LIVINGSTONE MCNAUGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, the christmas fairies are in the air!
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS FAMILY REUNION, by PETER DE VRIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since last the tutelary hearth
Last Line: I long for time to pass, so I %can think of all this with nostalgia
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS FANCIES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow
Last Line: When christmas bells are pelting the air with silver chimes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS FIRES BRIGHTLY GLEAM, by ANNE P. L. FIELD    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS FLOWERS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth is so bleak and deserted
Last Line: The crown of them all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS GIFT, by MABEL L. PRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It seems that dear old santa claus
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS GIFTS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pope on christmas day
Last Line: To show us where christ was born!'
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Popes; Papacy


CHRISTMAS GIFTS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas gifts for thee
Last Line: Carols of praise for such christmas gifts.
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


CHRISTMAS GIFTS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My sweet the fates befriend her!
Last Line: I'd gladly give -- myself!
Subject(s): Christmas; Marriage; Nativity, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


CHRISTMAS GIFTS: 1, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wondrous love and light
Last Line: And bid you go rejoicing on your way.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS GIFTS: 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A happy, happy christmas
Last Line: Through him who gave us christmas day!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS GIFTS: 4, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the ages hoary
Last Line: Make all thy life a christmas-time!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS GREETING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A word of godspeed and good
Last Line: The world's face, with god's smile on it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Smiles; Stars; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS GREETING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good morning, lord! For little boys
Last Line: With fuller hearts than they.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS GREETING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A merry christmas morning
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS GREETING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We hope your christmas will be merry
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS HOLLY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bethink we what can mean
Last Line: Beneath love's ever-widening wing.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holly; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS HYMN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hail to thee, thou holy babe"
Last Line: "younger, older, she than he"
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


CHRISTMAS HYMN, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, christmas bells
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS HYMN, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good people, gather to this praise
Last Line: Sing the incarnate savior, sing!
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS HYMN, by CHARLES WESLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! How all the welkin rings
Last Line: Formed in each believing heart!
Variant Title(s): For Christmas Day;glory To The King Of Kings
Subject(s): Christmas; Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS HYMN, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A stable-lamp is lighted
Last Line: By whose descent among us %the worlds are reconciled
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Holidays; Religion


CHRISTMAS HYMN (WITH MUSIC), by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in royal david's city
Last Line: All in white shall wait a round
Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs.
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas


CHRISTMAS HYMN FOR CHILDREN, by JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our bells ring to all the earth
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS HYMN FOR LAMBETH, by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! The lambeth guardians sing
Last Line: You will talk about the war %and eat and eat until you snore
Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C.
Subject(s): Christmas; Eggs


CHRISTMAS HYMN; WRITTEN IN THE CHAPEL OF THE MANGER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the fields where, long ago
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS IN 1875, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No trumpet-blast profaned
Last Line: Well may the nations say that christ is born.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS IN AJACCIO, by CONRAD FERDINAND MEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oranges all ripe and golden we have seen
Last Line: Tell me what your eyes are dreaming? Of the snowflakes falling?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Konrad
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS IN AMHERST, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poinsettias say there is red against snow
Last Line: And deep in god the yew trees comfort time
Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Christmas


CHRISTMAS IN BIAFRA (1969), by CHINUA ACHEBE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This sunken-eyed moment wobbling
Last Line: Herself again and took him away
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS IN CALIFORNIA, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can this be christmas - sweet as may
Last Line: And all the earth is holy land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS IN CHINATOWN, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They're off doing what they do
Subject(s): Chinatown. New York City; Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS IN DUBLIN, by NUALA ARCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the cat within us
Last Line: And to gather the guarded crumbs
Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners And Dining; Dublin, Ireland; Family Life - Ireland; Holidays; Travel


CHRISTMAS IN FLORIDA, by MARIAN LELAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Sunny day, oh! Balmy day
Last Line: And now another yuletide fades in florida.
Subject(s): Christmas; Florida; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS IN FREELANDS, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The red-bud, the kentucky tree
Last Line: -- that all we love is born again.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How hushed they were in heaven that / night
Last Line: To man it seemed a star.
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Heaven; Stars; Nativity, The; Paradise


CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not only, surely, on the earth
Last Line: Christmas wherever children are.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS IN INDIA, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim dawn behind the tamarisks - they sky is saffron-yellow
Last Line: Past.
Subject(s): Christmas; India; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS IN PROVENCE, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This age-old church, dream-stricken yesterday
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline
Subject(s): Christmas; Provence, France


CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow lies deep upon the ground
Last Line: Who holds not christmas in his heart!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS IN THE WOODS, by FRANCES MARY FROST    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight when the hoar frost falls on the wood
Last Line: The shy hearts of the wilderness
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS IN UTAH, by LESLIE NORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In barns turned from the wind
Last Line: A brazen angel blows his silent trumpet
Subject(s): Christmas; Mormons; Utah


CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1916, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cheer oh, comrades, we can bide the blast
Last Line: If duty done makes all the others brighter.
Subject(s): Christmas; Comfort; Duty; War; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War


CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME: 1917: THE LAST LAP, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We seldom were quick off the mark
Last Line: Be your victorious christmas-tide.
Subject(s): Christmas; England; Hope; Patience; Victory; War; World War I; Nativity, The; English; Optimism; First World War


CHRISTMAS INSURRECTION, by ANNE P. L. FIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the hush of a shivery christmas-tide dawn
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS INVITATION, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come down to-marra night, an' mind
Last Line: O' yal to kip wold chris'mas up
Variant Title(s): The Farmer's Invitatio
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS IS COMING, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Darkness is for the poor, and thorough cold
Last Line: If you haven't got a ha'penny, god bless you
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS IS COMING, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Darkness is for the poor, and thorough cold
Last Line: If you haven't got a ha'penny, god bless you
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS IS COMING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christmas is coming. The geese are getting fat
Last Line: Please put a penny in the old man's hat
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS IS REALLY FOR THE CHILDREN, by STEVE TURNER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: What jesus did when he grew up %or whether there's any connection
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion


CHRISTMAS IS REMEMBERING, by ELSIE BINNS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS LANDSCAPE, by LAURIE LEE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight the wind gnaws
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS LIGHT, by FRANK WALCOTT HUTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Along the slopes of an ancient hill
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, by VALERIE WORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bulbs strung along
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS LONG AGO, by ANNE H. WOODRUFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long, long ago! Oh, heart of youth unheeding
Last Line: Another christmas night.
Subject(s): Christmas; Happiness; Memory; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight


CHRISTMAS LULLABY, by MARY KATUS ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little girl, little boy, your wondering eyes
Last Line: Hearts of the world...Now sleep!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS LULLABY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hushaby, hushaby
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS MAIL, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cards in each mailbox
Subject(s): Christmas Cards


CHRISTMAS MASS, by ELIZABETH WOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: My graduation mass
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS MASS FOR A LITTLE ATHEIST JESUS, by CLAUDE MAILLARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: You %my bell-clapper
Last Line: You say to me %vow to me %I answer you %amen
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS MEMORY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was my jeroboam man most of the year
Last Line: The chimes rang christmas in and out
Subject(s): Christmas; Memory


CHRISTMAS MERRYMAKING, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fire with well-dried logs supplied
Last Line: At such high tide, her savoury goose.
Subject(s): Christmas; Fire; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS MINUET, by MINNA IRVING    Poem Source                    
First Line: When silver flutes and violins
Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS MORN, by M. NORA BOYLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joy to the world, the lord has come
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS MORN - THEN AND NOW, by RHODA HARTMAN FOGLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gray dawn, pale candlelight, and bubbling glee
Last Line: With mother -- heart and soul, what joys have we!
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS MORN., by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the beauty of its breaking, in the music of its
Last Line: And our dying be but day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS MORNING, by RICHARD BECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: With pen of golden beams the morning writes
Last Line: His voice is calling, gently as of yore.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS MORNING, by HARRY BEHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas bells, awake and ring
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS MORNING, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday I tore some lace-stuck my finger through it
Last Line: Not to blame this child, because his are n't any better!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


CHRISTMAS MORNING, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If bethlehem were here today
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS MORNING, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If bethlehem were here today
Last Line: And when I'd tiptoe softly out %I'd meet the wise-men going in
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS MORNING I, by CAROL FREEMAN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Room to see grandmama %sewing a new %button on my last year %ragdoll
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS MOTTOES: 1, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unto you the child is born
Last Line: Unto him above the skies!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS MOTTOES: 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wilderness shall rejoice
Last Line: Be a joyful christmas psalm.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS MOTTOES: 3, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it a wintry night?
Last Line: Rise up and welcome the son of his love.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS MOTTOES: 4, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cometh in lowliness
Last Line: Cometh beloved -- oh, cometh to thee!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS MOTTOES: 5, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright be thy christmas tide
Last Line: Open thy heart for his palace and home.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS MOTTOES: 6, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What do the angels sing?
Last Line: Glory to god in the highest! Amen.
Variant Title(s): Music Of Christmas
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS MOTTOES: 7, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, christmas blessings cannot cease
Last Line: Our salvation and our song.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS MUSINGS; ADDRESSED TO INATHE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time flies apace - another year hath perished
Last Line: Sweet as thy smile, and radiant as thine eyes!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Christmas; December; Holidays; Love; Winter; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS NEW, by JOSEPH TWYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A story is told of three wise men who travelled over the plains
Last Line: They can live, and give, and live.
Subject(s): Christmas; Generosity; Travel; Nativity, The; Journeys; Trips


CHRISTMAS NIGHT, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We do not find him on the difficult earth
Last Line: A homeless childish head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS NIGHT, by LAWRENCE SAIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the wind, a drifting echo
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN THE QUARTERS, by IRWIN RUSSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When merry christ-day is done
Subject(s): Christmas; Slavery


CHRISTMAS NIGHT OF '62, by WILLIAM GORDON MCCABE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wintry blast goes wailing by
Last Line: In the army of northern virginia.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS NOSTALGIA, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some want to see
Last Line: Just likes the ones I used to know
Subject(s): Christmas; Nostalgia


CHRISTMAS NOTE FOR GERALDINE UDELL, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do the prairie flowers, the huge autumn
Last Line: Of the flowing ocean
Subject(s): Christmas; War


CHRISTMAS NOW IS PAST, by NICHOLAS BRETON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS BY CHILDREN FROM OTHER LANDS, by ELLA M. POWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: And this again is christmas day
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS ON THE HUDSON, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: That gray sponge
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS ONCE IS CHRISTMAS STILL, by PHILLIPS BROOKS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silent skies are full of speech
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS, by VALERIE WORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boxes break
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS OUT OF TOWN, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For many a winter in billiter-lane
Last Line: That nobody now spends his christmas in town.
Subject(s): Christmas; London; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS OUTCASTS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "christ died for all, and on the hearts of all"
Last Line: By helping those to whom no christmas comes
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


CHRISTMAS PACKAGE: NO. 7, by DAVID MCCORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That broken star at the top of the tree
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS PACKAGE: NO. 8, by DAVID MCCORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My stocking's where
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS PAGEANT, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our church is bethlehem
Last Line: Gives adoration eyes
Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Christmas


CHRISTMAS PARTY, by CAROLYN SHERWIN BAILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On christmas eve, would you believe, the forest
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS PARTY, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm growing old and feeble
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS PARTY AT THE SOUTH DANBURY CHURCH, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: December twenty-first
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS POEM, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The cool wind blows from the sea
Last Line: And breaks on shores of pain %the unimagined sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K.
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS POEM, by DICK DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: One of the oxen said
Last Line: The self and symbol of %the selfless life he gives: %I give him life, I wish him love
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS POEM, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Toad, honey, bread, salt %a clock rings
Last Line: Thus the miracle breaks loose from the lineage %the orders are definite %the boat is safe
Subject(s): Christmas; Poetry And Poets


CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O god, our loving father
Last Line: Forgiven, for jesus' sake. Amen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS PRAYER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grant, heavenly father
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOR FIFTY YEARS AND OVER, by JUDITH STAHL VIORST    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He used to buy her lacy negligees
Last Line: He's bough a pillbox for her calcium. %she's ordered him the large-type new york times
Subject(s): Aging; Christmas Gifts; New York Times (newspaper)


CHRISTMAS QUESTIONS, by WOLSTAN DIXEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How old is santa claus?
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS REUNION, by M. D. STERLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother goose: well, well, father christmas
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS ROBIN, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snows of february had buried christmas
Last Line: He prophesied more snow, and worse than snow
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS ROSE, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pazon! The pazon! Just stop a bit
Last Line: Who or what was the christmas rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS ROSE, by MARGARET EVELYN SINGLETON    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the ageless garden plot of time he came
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS ROUNDELAY, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where will you lie, little christmas child
Last Line: To all who are lonely and sad
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas


CHRISTMAS SEASON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is a christmas carol
Last Line: O english of shakespeare!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SECRETS, by BERTHA E. NICHOLAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Say, fellers, how is it at your house'
Last Line: "will find our christmas secrets out."
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Secrets


CHRISTMAS SERVICE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hark! The christmas bells are ringing
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS SHADOWS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The needles have dropped from her nerveless hands
Last Line: A longing spirit hath gladly flown
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, by LAURA K. KASISCHKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Look at the puppet
Last Line: I was taught to pray to god %and the same answer blizzards back:
Subject(s): Christmas; Shopping


CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spending beyond their income on gifts for christmas
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Christmas; Shopping


CHRISTMAS SHOW, by HARRIET LEVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: While my youngest sister lies
Last Line: Eyes swollen, having seen enough
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Christmas; Women


CHRISTMAS SONG, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the weary waiting world
Last Line: They all are dancing in the morn %because a little child is born
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS SONG, by TUDOR JENKS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mother-love makes all things bright
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS SONG, by LYDIA AVERY COONLEY WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why do bells for christmas ring?
Last Line: So the little children sing.
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SONG FOR THREE GUILDS, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: St. Joseph to the carpenters said on a christmas day
Last Line: Because it was my challenge to all the things I made
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS SONG OF THE POOR MAN, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A merry christmas, gentlemen
Last Line: Oh, a merry christmas tide is mine!
Subject(s): Christmas; Poverty; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SONNET TO E. C. S., by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When days were long, and o'er that farm
Last Line: Yet with your blossom from one root it grew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Christmas; Fields; Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908); Summer; Nativity, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


CHRISTMAS SONNET TO G. H. B., by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If that my hand, like yours, dear george
Last Line: And of my love some perfume haunt its leaves!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Boker, George Henry (1823-1890); Christmas; Love; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SONNET; FOR ONE IN DOUBT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While you that in your sorrow disavow
Last Line: And strangely has not yet been crucified
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion


CHRISTMAS STAR, by BORIS LEONIDOVICH PASTERNAK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was winter. The wind
Last Line: The christmas star was looking at the maiden
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS STOCKING, by CHARLES H. PEARSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the ghostly light I'm sitting, musing of long dead
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS, by W. S. C.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Santa claus on christmas eve
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS STORIES, by LETTIE E. STERLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chimneys standing in a row
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS STORY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell again the christmas story
Last Line: Mary's son in straw and glory: %wonder of the christmas story!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas


CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE: 1, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do the angels know the blessed day
Last Line: That your heart shall echo your whole life long.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE: 10, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swell the notes of the christmas song!
Last Line: And god's good-will that is ever new!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE: 11, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ is come to be thy light
Last Line: Full of christmas joy to thee!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE: 2, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jesus came! - and came for me
Last Line: Show them to my heart to-day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE: 3, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, let thy heart make melody
Last Line: Thy glorious christmas gift.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE: 4, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A happy, happy christmas
Last Line: With grateful hand we take.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE: 5, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is silence high in the midnight sky
Last Line: The echoes of life shall forever prolong.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE: 6, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great is the mystery
Last Line: And jesus mine!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE: 7, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What was the first angelic word
Last Line: When the glory dazzled their mortal sight.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE: 8, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ is come to be my friend
Last Line: Lonely though the pathway be
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SUNSHINE: 9, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me a song, o lord
Last Line: A christmas anthem to my king.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS SYMBOLS, by FLORENCE PHELPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What are the signs of christmas time?
Last Line: And the world to higher levels lift.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 1, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christmas was coming
Last Line: And the seconds to go
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 10, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was so deep in his thoughts
Last Line: And knew his dog was concerned
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 11, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Santa opened his eyes
Last Line: And santa knew where he'd been
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 12, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was dressed in a harness
Last Line: Over mountain and brook?
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 13, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Would you brave the long night
Last Line: They were made to pull sleighs
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 14, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you were strong as your faith
Last Line: I'm afraid it's unheard of.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 15, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Says who?' came a challenge
Last Line: Dogs used to pull sleighs!
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 16, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Consider this world
Last Line: They even pulled sleighs!'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 17, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bright spark was kindled
Last Line: Why, they'll pull my sleigh
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 18, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quickly, gather my elves
Last Line: Each boy and each girl.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 19, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: But, where will you find them?'
Last Line: The dogs you'll be needing.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 2, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For the story was known
Last Line: On that wondrous day
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 20, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why, I know of a place
Last Line: That I need for this task.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 21, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: And so santa journeyed
Last Line: No people allowed.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 22, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hotel was quiet
Last Line: Without any distortions.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 23, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Santa told of his plight
Last Line: A tear suddenly showed
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 24, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The innkeeper listened
Last Line: Who know right where the kids are.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 25, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dogs from the cities
Last Line: Wherever they're found!
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 26, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have them all here
Last Line: That I'd like to mention
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 27, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now I know the sleigh's heavy
Last Line: Just how much we care
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 28, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You all know the hazards,'
Last Line: And form in a line.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 29, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Well, you couldn't imagine
Last Line: Spilling out of the halls
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 3, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That there wouldn't be christmas
Last Line: For the first time in years
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 30, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They jumped over tables
Last Line: Sheepdogs and spaniels! Retrievers and danes
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 31, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Till, lo and behold
Last Line: With the greatest of speed
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 32, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A norwegian elkhound
Last Line: Their eyes all aglow
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 33, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A beagle named snoopy
Last Line: She was big as a horse
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 34, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A kelpie, a keeshond %and a dachsund, so small
Last Line: For the night's grueling test
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 35, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: From deserts and mountains
Last Line: A standard named fred
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 36, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, fred, you're in charge
Last Line: Then that's where you'll be.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 37, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Santa turned to the innkeeper
Last Line: With the pureblooded kind
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 38, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: His color's a rainbow
Last Line: With the pedigree kind.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 39, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snuggles crouched to the floor
Last Line: So he turned and he said
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 4, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For up at the north pole
Last Line: I'm afraid there's no reason!'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 40, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Friend santa -' the innkeeper
Last Line: Or the cut of your clothes?'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 41, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It suddenly struck santa
Last Line: Is a result of the breeding!
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 42, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why, who still seeks your hand
Last Line: No matter the trail?
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 43, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who sees man as a king
Last Line: Deserve being returned
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 44, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Man pays tribute to friends
Last Line: By a hound's wagging tail
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 45, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why, it isn't the color
Last Line: In the eyes of my hound.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 46, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Santa knelt to the floor
Last Line: And together we'll go sleighing!'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 47, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then he led them all outside
Last Line: Arose from their beds
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 48, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They ran to their windows
Last Line: Away in the night?
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 49, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: An impossible sight,'
Last Line: What they saw in the sky
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 5, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a virus, you see
Last Line: When you've no one to pull.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 50, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: While back at the north pole
Last Line: A jack russell clown
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 51, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each dog take your place
Last Line: Makes a wonderful guide.)'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 52, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Santa placed all the dogs
Last Line: Where he persisted in arguing
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 53, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: See the size of my nose?
Last Line: Where his crew was so slight
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 54, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The chihuahua, the papillon
Last Line: My small friends in the back.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 55, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The argument settled
Last Line: Now, onward my team!'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 56, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Five score and eighteen dogs
Last Line: To bring them to flight
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 57, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then the word went out
Last Line: To the great white bear
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 58, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A meeting was called
Last Line: And good will for all
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 59, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: But, why should we help?'
Last Line: Who won't help each other?'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 6, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Santa slunk in his chair
Last Line: Without leaving the north pole.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 60, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That's exactly the point,'
Last Line: On each christmas day.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 61, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the animals discussed it
Last Line: As they went on their way
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 62, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They joined with the others
Last Line: And they didn't give in
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 63, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In that small north pole town
Last Line: The dream they desired
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 64, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then, over the racket
Last Line: Then everyone tug!'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 65, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yip,' squeaked little brutus
Last Line: With all of their might
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 66, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: First the creaking and squeaking
Last Line: Kept their teamwork improving
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 67, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then they looked to the heavens
Last Line: Like he could on the ground
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 68, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Upward and onward
Last Line: Of the bright milky way
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 69, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas a tiring task
Last Line: Share a new christmas joy
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 7, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why there are millions of children
Last Line: Take my sleigh out tonight!'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 70, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Never passing, but stopping
Last Line: The better the gift
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 71, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: To scotland and ireland
Last Line: And the african heat
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 72, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Westward to russia, %that mighty expanse
Last Line: A large wish for peach
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 73, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: To the highest of mountains
Last Line: And santa was pleased
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 74, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then quick to the americas
Last Line: To land back in the snow
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 75, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was joy and camaraderie
Last Line: There's no task you can't do
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 76, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now back to the pet hotel
Last Line: In prairie view town
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 77, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They arrived as they'd left
Last Line: And the pulling of shades
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 78, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It just couldn't happen
Last Line: So it didn't happen at all!
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 79, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: While back at the pet hotel
Last Line: And a note just for him
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 8, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Santa stroked snuggles' head
Last Line: Spun around and around
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 80, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: To friends who have taught me
Last Line: Your faithful friend, %st. Nick.'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 81, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: And away at the north pole
Last Line: In his favorite old chair
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 82, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: And santa spoke softly
Last Line: It's the heart that dwells inside!'
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TAILS: 9, by ROBERT X. LEEDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six o'clock, seven o'clock
Last Line: It'd be too late for going!
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS THANK YOU'S, by MICK GOWAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear auntie %oh, what a nice jumper
Last Line: A fiver %to spend
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS THOUGHT, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, christmas is coming again, you say
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TIDE, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the merry spring time weaves
Last Line: And then all hail to merry christmas tide!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS TIME, by M. NORA BOYLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christmas time for boys and girls
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TODAY, by ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How can they honor him - the humble lad
Last Line: With deathless words—would kneel again and weep.
Variant Title(s): Christmas 1930
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


CHRISTMAS TREASURES, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I count my treasures o'er with care
Last Line: My watching will not be in vain.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS TREE, by PATRICIA BEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside the world was full, plural
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TREE, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whre grows the christmas tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TREE, by STANLEY COOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stores and filling stations prefer a roof
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by PETER CORNELIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The holly's up, the house is all bright
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TREE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Put out the lights now!
Last Line: If it lives or dies now
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Christmas; Environment; Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by MARY ELEANOR WILKINS FREEMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother was a singing wind I never knew
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkins, Mary E.
Subject(s): Christmas; Pine Trees; Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by MRS. RUSSELL KAVANAUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oho! This is the tree I am to fill
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be %brought down at last
Last Line: Receptive. Still to recall, to praise
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by GEORGE FREDERICK MORGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the quiet house, on a morning of snow
Last Line: And wonders how he'll ever know
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TREE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This seablue fir that rode the mountain storm
Subject(s): Christmas; Past; Children; Death; Stars; Nativity, The; Childhood; Dead, The


CHRISTMAS TREE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our darling little florence, our blessing
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TREE, by ISABEL DE SAVITZSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: With spangles gay and candle light
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TREE, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because the tree is joyous and as a child
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by LAURENCE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Star all over
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all the trees in the woods and fields
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You come from a land where the snow lies deep
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TREE, by OSCAR WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here as it stands with all its branches out
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS TREE IN THE NURSERY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With mild surprise %four great eyes
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREES, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw along each noisy city street
Last Line: Grant then your blessing, friend of trees, we pray, %on those who deck green boughs for christmas da
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREES, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The white trees for christmas
Last Line: And the stars for the rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Trees; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS TREES', by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonhoeffer in his skylit cell
Subject(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945); Christianity; Christmas; Christmas Trees; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS TREES', by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bonhoeffer in his skylit cell
Last Line: We hear too late or not too late
Subject(s): Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (1906-1945); Christianity; Christmas; Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS TREES; A CHRISTMAS CIRCULAR LETTER, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The city had withdrawn into itself
Last Line: In wishing you herewith a merry christmas.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


CHRISTMAS VALENTINE, by NIKKI GRIMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I asked mama
Last Line: Merry christmas, mama
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Love; Mothers


CHRISTMAS WATCHERS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before wee donald went to bed
Last Line: Are watching till the saint appears.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS WE LIKE, by ELLA M. POWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just a little stocking
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS WISH, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This own wish wish I thee in every place
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS WISHES, by C. PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear teachers and friends, allow me to say
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS WISHES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many christmas wishes, friend
Last Line: Than ever it did before.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS WITHOUT CHRIST, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I keep my christmas feast
Last Line: Within, a cheerless home!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, 1898, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Another century dies
Last Line: With peace and light!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, 1899, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The din of the battlefield dies
Last Line: O beloved, o england, good-bye!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS, 1915, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the midnight of the nations: dark
Last Line: What new-wing'd world, or mangled god still-born?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War


CHRISTMAS, 1917, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it a mocking jest that christmas bells
Last Line: Let nations pass so man himself be free.
Subject(s): Christmas; Freedom; Hate; Humanity; Social Protest; War; Nativity, The; Liberty


CHRISTMAS, BOSTON 1989, by PATRICIA SPEARS JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is how I know god exists
Last Line: Across the parched milky sky, %electric lights bloom
Subject(s): Boston; Christmas; Cities


CHRISTMAS, PRITHEE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS, SOUTH, 1866, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Laughing, merry, childish voices, woke us in their eager glee
Last Line: And we grasp the sunbeam gladly, for it cheers our aching hearts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Christmas; Southern States; Nativity, The; South (u.s.)


CHRISTMAS-LAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wonder where the railroad starts
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMAS-TIDE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At christmas-tide the fields are bare
Last Line: That love is heaven and christ is king.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTMAS: 1924, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace on earth!' was said. We sing it
Last Line: We've got as far as poison-gas
Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Christmas


CHRISTMASSE DAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wonders birthday / which maks't decembers face
Last Line: It selfe more full on this contracting day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


CHRISTMASSING A LA MODE SLUMOPOLIS, by GEORGE ROBERT SIMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a lady up a court that leads to drury-lane
Last Line: And christmas made the harvest-time of drink -- hell's fiercest fiend
Alternate Author Name(s): Dagonet
Subject(s): Christmas; Drinks And Drinking


CHRISTMASTIDE, by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy chime
Subject(s): Christmas


CHRISTMASTIDE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I may not go tonight to bethlehem
Last Line: To guide me on to holy bethlehem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christianity; Christmas; Emptiness; Nativity, The


CHRISTS BIRTH, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One birth our saviour had; the like none yet
Last Line: Was, or will be a second like to it.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CHRISTUS NATUS EST, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In bethlehem / on christmas morn
Last Line: Hosannah! Christus natus est
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


CHRISTUS NATUS EST, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In bethlehem %on christmas morn
Last Line: Hosannah! Christus natus est
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion


CITY CHRISTMAS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the time when the great urban heart
Last Line: We hear too late or not too late
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Cities; Nativity, The; Urban Life


CITY CHRISTMAS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the time when the great urban heart
Last Line: And twenty thousand doormen hourly grow %politer and politer and politer
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Cities


CLAP YOUR HANDS FOR HEROD, by JOSEF HANZLIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: We %little children in our shifts
Subject(s): Christmas; Herod The Great (73-4 B.c.)


COCKADOODLEDOO, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


COME BRAVELY ON, MY MASTERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


COME CHRISTMAS, by DAVID MCCORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You see this christmas tree all silver gold
Subject(s): Christmas


COME HOME, MY SAILOR, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blow wind, blow
Subject(s): Christmas


COME, HOLY BABE!, by MARY DICKERSON BANGHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did bethlehem's stable loathe
Subject(s): Christmas


COME, MAD BOYS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


COMES TRUTH! COMES BEAUTY! COMES LOVE! (PRINCESS HELEN'S CHRISTMAS), by JOHN W. STOCKWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: To hear, to speak, to see
Last Line: Helen keller's eyes see the shining star!
Subject(s): Beauty; Christmas; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Truth; Nativity, The


COMIN' CHRISTMAS MORN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm goin' to start next saturday
Last Line: Will be here christmas morn.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


COMING OF CHRISTMAS, by ANNE LINDSAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas is a-drawing near
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnard, Lady Anne
Subject(s): Christmas


COMING OF THE COLD, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ribs of leaves lie in the dust
Subject(s): Christmas


COMPENSATION, by VIRGINIA WOODS MACKALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last year I saved up ninety cents
Last Line: I've made it up to santa claus!
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


COMPENSATIONS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's goin' to be a chris'mas-tree next door!
Last Line: Them upstarts know!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Ice; Play; Snow; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The


COMPUTER'S FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD, by EDWIN MORGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jollymerry %hollyberry
Last Line: As meerychr %ysanthemum
Subject(s): Christmas; Computers


CONCEPTION OF CHRIST, by JOHN WEDDERBURN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let us rejoice and sing
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM EXTERNA LUC CREDENCIUM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a child born of mary
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


CONSECRATION OF THE COMMON WAY, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills that had been lone and lean
Last Line: The stone the angel rolled away with tears %is back upon your mouth these thousand years
Subject(s): Christmas


CONVERSATION ABOUT CHRISTMAS THE USEFUL PRESENTS, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were the useful presents: engulfing mufflers of the old coach days
Subject(s): Christmas


CONVERSATION ABOUT CHRISTMAS THE USELESS PRESENTS, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of course there were sweets. It was the marsh
Subject(s): Christmas


CORNISH CAROL, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome that star in judah's sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S.
Variant Title(s): The Child Jesu
Subject(s): Christmas


COURTESY, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Or courtesy, it is much less
Last Line: My rhyme is written, my work is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Courtesy; Christmas; Etiquette; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Manners; Courtesy


COURTESY, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of courtesy, it is much less
Last Line: My rhyme is written, my work is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Christmas; Etiquette; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Manners; Courtesy


COVENTRY CAROL, by ROBERT CROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: O sisters too, how may we do
Subject(s): Christmas


COVENTRY CAROL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lully, lullay, thou tiny child
Last Line: Neither say nor sing, %bye-bye, lully, lullay
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


COVENTRY CAROL (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O sisters too, how may we do
Last Line: Neither say nor sing %by by, lully lullay!
Subject(s): Christmas


CRADLE HYMN, by MARTIN LUTHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away in a manger, no crib for a bed
Last Line: And stay by my cradle till morning is nigh.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


CRADLE HYMN (WITH MUSIC), by MARTIN LUTHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away in a manger, no crib for a bed
Last Line: Stay by my cradle till morning is nigh
Subject(s): Christmas


CRADLE HYMN, SELS., by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See the kinder shepherds round him
Subject(s): Christmas


CRADLE SONG, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Madonna, madonna / sat by the grey road-side
Last Line: My baby, my dear son.
Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


CRADLED 'MID THE OXEN, by HENRY COGSWELL KNIGHT    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


CRECHE, by CAROL RYRIE BRINK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gabriel had gathered moss
Subject(s): Christmas


CRIB, by ROBERT FINCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are making a creche at the saturday morning classes
Subject(s): Christmas


CROSSROADS, by CATHERINE PARMENTER NEWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the year we travel
Subject(s): Christmas


CROSSROADS OF THE AGES, by ESTELLA MOUL MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Will you leave the christ in bethlehem
Last Line: At the crossroads, to be shown the jesus' way.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


CROWDED OUT, by ROSALIE M. JONAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nobody ain't christmas shoppin'
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Christmas


DANCE OF THE SNOWFLAKES, by ALICE E. ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We lived in cloudland
Subject(s): Christmas


DARK CHRISTMAS ON WILDWOOD ROAD, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas christmas eve and bitter cold
Last Line: Junior blew his clamorous horn
Subject(s): Christmas


DARK CHRISTMAS ON WILDWOOD ROAD, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas christmas eve and bitter cold
Last Line: And all that red-eyed christmas morn %junior blew his clamorous horn
Subject(s): Christmas


DAS KRIST KINDEL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had fed the fire and stirred it, till the sparkles in delight
Last Line: "who brings the world good tidings, -- ""it is christmas -- all is well!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; December; Night; Santa Claus; Vision; Nativity, The; Bedtime; Nicholas, Saint


DAVID IN HEAVEN, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where in white the saints see light
Subject(s): Christmas; Magi


DAWN FLIGHT INTO PHILADELPHIA: FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY, by KATHY COFFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Keep the maji out of it. Resist the easy image
Last Line: Resting like a child's hand on the eastern horizon
Subject(s): Christmas; Travel


DAY DAWN OF THE HEART, by MARY T. LATHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis not enough that christ was born
Subject(s): Christmas


DEAR BABY JESUS, by MARGARET KITSON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


DECEMBER, by ALICE ARNOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: No flower hast thou, no song of bird
Subject(s): Christmas


DECEMBER, by ELIZABETH V. AUVACHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: December days are dark and gray
Last Line: Round the bright and cheery blaze.
Subject(s): Christmas; Cold; December; Nativity, The


DECEMBER, by HARRIET F. BLODGETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! Holly branch and mistletoe
Subject(s): Christmas


DECEMBER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter now has fully come
Last Line: Merriest day of all the year.
Subject(s): Christmas; December; Nativity, The


DECEMBER, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We all walk up and down
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


DECEMBER, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before the old, old year can go
Last Line: What if december's last—it's best of all!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; December; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


DECEMBER FRAGMENTS, by RICHMOND LATTIMORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I thought of cards along the mantlepiece
Subject(s): Christmas


DECEMBER MOON, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Before going to bed
Last Line: Sleeping away the cold white night %after a fall of snow
Subject(s): Christmas; December; Solitude


DECEMBER PRAYER TO ST. NICHOLAS, by JOHN HEATH-STUBBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Patron of all those who do good by stealth
Subject(s): Christmas


DECEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH, by ELEANOR SLATER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tomorrow you are born again
Last Line: Approaches calvary?
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


DECK THE HALLS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa la la la la, la la la la
Last Line: Fa la la la la la la la la
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


DEER AND STARS, by JOHN POCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I loved her for the news I hadn't heard
Last Line: She meant beside the letter or the word
Subject(s): Christmas; Mothers


DIFFERENT VIEWS; A CHRISMAS DUET, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, christmaa comes but once a year
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


DIFFERENT WAY, by ESTHER LLOYD HAGG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wise men, indeed, to know a newborn star
Subject(s): Christmas


DING DONG! MERRILY ON HIGH, by GEORGE RATCLIFFE WOODWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ding dong! Merrily on high. In heaven the bells are ringing
Last Line: Your evening song, ye singers
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


DISCONTENTED FIR TREE, by ROSAMUND LIVINGSTONE MCNAUGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A fir tree stood, 'mid ice and snow
Subject(s): Christmas


DISH FOR A POET, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take a large olive, stone it and then stuff it
Subject(s): Christmas


DIVINA COMMEDIA, SELS., by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Christmas; Italy; Religion


DOG, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every year %the same
Last Line: That is the best part %of this long, loud %day
Subject(s): Christmas


DOT LEEDLE BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O t's a leedle gristmas story
Last Line: For dot leedle boy of mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Germany; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Germans; Nicholas, Saint


DOVE, by NORMA FARBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What thing %should I sing
Last Line: What save love %can a dove %carol of? %coo-roo
Subject(s): Christmas


DRIVING, CHRISTMAS EVE, by PETER COOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Past the salvation army rehabilitation center
Last Line: My life is in someone else's hands
Subject(s): Christmas; Salvation Army


EARTH LISTENS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At last our dull earth listens
Subject(s): Christmas; Earth


EARTHLY PARADISE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of heaven or hell I have no power to sing
Last Line: Whose ravening monsters mighty men shall slay, %not the poor singer of an empty day
Subject(s): Christmas


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 33. REGRETS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would that our scrupulous sires had dared to leave
Last Line: Strains offered only to the genial spring.
Variant Title(s): Church Decking At Christmas
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


ECHO OF THE SPHERES, SELS., by C. BAIN                       
Subject(s): Christmas


ECHOES, by YALA KORWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christmas shoppers
Subject(s): Christmas; Shopping


EDDI'S SERVICE, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eddi, priest of st. Wilfrid
Last Line: On such as care to attend.'
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


EIA JESUS HODIE NATUS EST DE VIRGINE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Blessed be that maid mary
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


EIA, MARTYR STEPHANE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pray for us, we pray to thee
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ELEGY: 6, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unsurfeited with feasting, I send you a good-health
Last Line: You, when I recite them to you, will be my judge
Subject(s): Christmas; Diodati, Charles (1608-1638)


ELIZABETH'S WAR WITH THE CHRISTMAS BEAR: 1601, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The bears are kept by hundreds within fences, are fed cracked / eggs
Last Line: Every inch of you, a terrible vision, not bear, but virgin!
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Bones; Christmas; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Nativity, The


EMPTY STOCKING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tragedy of children's eyes
Subject(s): Christmas


ENIGMA, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We go to church on christmas day
Last Line: But this is -- this is molly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


ENIXA EST PUERPERA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


EPIPHANY, by ROBERT DAVID FITZGERALD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unearthly lightning of presage
Last Line: And kings rise eastward in the night
Subject(s): Christmas


EPIPHANY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The kings have brought him ambergris
Last Line: Falls like a full-fed lamb, asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Epiphany; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Twelfth Night


EPISTLE; TO THE EARL OF..., by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To write in verse, o count of mine
Last Line: I'm sunk for ever to mankind.
Subject(s): Bagpipes; Christmas; Musical Instruments; Stanhope, Philip Dormer (1694-1773); Nativity, The; Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of


ETERNAL CHRISTMAS, by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the pure sould, although it sing or pray
Last Line: And keep eternal christmas in the heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Phelps, Mary Gray
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion


EVERGREEN AND HOLLY, by E. O. PECK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bring the evergreens and holly
Subject(s): Christmas


EVERY MAN HEART LAY DOWN, by LORENTZ GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long time past %before you papa live
Last Line: And they look on the god pican %and every man heart lay down
Subject(s): Christmas


EVERYWHERE, ANGELS: 7, by DAINIS HAZNERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On christmas day
Last Line: They should wheel as one and come back our way, who knows %what would return?
Subject(s): Christmas


EXORTUM EST IN LOVE AND LYSSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


EXPECTATION, by JOHN E. HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: She was a little old lady in a faded dress
Last Line: And sonny was coming home!
Subject(s): Christmas; Mothers & Sons; Nativity, The


EXULTATION IN DECEMBER, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter settles down around our white houses
Last Line: Anoint our winter air with hope, with burning
Subject(s): Christmas


FAIRY FACES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the mists of childhood
Last Line: We welcome the holy season's return
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


FAMILY MATTER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: That christmas day, he wanted to kill his father
Last Line: And confessed everything to the first whore he could find.'
Subject(s): Christmas; Confessions; Fathers And Sons; Murder; Prostitution


FATHER, by DOROTHY SCOTT BALLARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: O joseph, of the holy family least
Subject(s): Christmas


FATHER, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is this what it is
Last Line: I am at the heart %of christmas
Subject(s): Christmas


FATHER CHRISTMAS, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here comes old father christmas
Variant Title(s): Christma
Subject(s): Christmas


FATHER CHRISTMAS' MESSAGE, by J. A. ATKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I am again
Subject(s): Christmas


FATHER SPEAKS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Merry christmas, one and all!
Last Line: Whoop, hurrah! It's christmas day.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Discontent; Fathers; Childhood; Nativity, The; Dissatisfaction


FEAST DAYS: CHRISTMAS, by ANNIE DILLARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Let me mention
Subject(s): Christmas


FEAST O' SAINT STEPHEN, by RUTH SAWYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hearken ye all, 'tis the feast of st stephen
Subject(s): Christmas; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


FEAST OF STEPHEN, by KEVIN NICHOLAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the midnight unfolding of the white rose
Subject(s): Christmas; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


FEBRUARY, by JOHN HEATH-STUBBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Splish splosh, february-fill-the-dike
Subject(s): Christmas


FIRE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


FIRST BEST CHRISTMAS NIGHT, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Like small curled feathers, white and soft
Last Line: Because the longed-for christ looked up %in mary's happy eyes
Variant Title(s): 'while Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
Subject(s): Christmas


FIRST CHRISTMAS, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On that night when christ was born
Last Line: With worshipers above
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas


FIRST CHRISTMAS, by ANNE EMILIE POULSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once a little baby lay cradled on the fragrant hay
Alternate Author Name(s): Poulsson, Emilie
Subject(s): Christmas


FIRST CHRISTMAS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where love takes, let love give, and so doubt not
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Christmas


FIRST CHRISTMAS AFTER THEIR DIVORCE, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Coming home
Last Line: Didn't bother to take
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Holidays; Santa Claus


FIRST NOEL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first noel the angel did
Last Line: And with his blood mankind hath bought
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


FIRST NOWELL (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first nowell the angel did say
Last Line: And with his blood mankind hath bought
Subject(s): Christmas


FIRST PANTOMIME, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He took us to the christmas pantomime
Last Line: Caesar in togas and macbeth in kilts, %for me first set the curtained stage alight
Subject(s): Christmas; Pantomime


FIVE JOYS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I may sing of a may
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


FLIGHT OF THE YEAR, by ROGER MCGOUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: And there goes the bell for the third month
Subject(s): Christmas


FLOWER OF JESSE, by JOHN AUDELAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a flower sprung of a tree
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


FOLKS AT LONESOMEVILLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pore-folks lives at lonesomeville
Last Line: Goes to lonesomeville!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Poverty; Santa Claus; Winter; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


FOR ALLAN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who wanted to see how I wrote a poem
Last Line: Excepting santa claus.
Subject(s): Christmas; Neilson, Allan; Poetry & Poets; Nativity, The


FOR CHRISTMAS DAY, by FRANCIS KINWELMERSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rejoice, rejoice, with heart and voice!
Last Line: The joy of christës birth this day recite.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Nativity, The


FOR CHRISTMAS DAY [OR, MORNING], by THOMAS PESTEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fairest of morning lights, appear
Variant Title(s): Psalm For Christmas Da
Subject(s): Christmas


FOR NOEL (WHERE A GATE SWINGS EITHER WAY), by BEULAH ALLYNE BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bring one rosette of alien mistletoe
Last Line: Lay warmth of heart, a song of cherished vows.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


FOR THE CHILDREN OR THE GROWN-UPS?, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis the week before christmas and every night
Subject(s): Christmas


FOR THE NATIVITY, by JOHN HEATH-STUBBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shepherds, I sing you, this winter's night
Last Line: Out in the cold he lies!
Subject(s): Christmas


FOR THE PROUD-HEARTED, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O may those wo have richest store
Subject(s): Christmas


FOR THE WANDERER, by EDWIN WAUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: For all poor souls we'll strew the feast
Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of Lancashire, The
Subject(s): Christmas


FOR THIS CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye old-time stave that pealeth out
Last Line: And gentlewomen, too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Festivals; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants


FOUR CHRISTMAS CAROLS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How cold the snow
Subject(s): Christmas


FOURTH ECLOGUE, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Muses %muses of sicily
Last Line: No god could ask thee to his table %no goddess to her bed
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Christmas


FOURTH SHEPHERD, by ALEXANDER MACKENZIE DAVIDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The four strange men knelt down to see
Subject(s): Christmas


FRENCH NOEL, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Masters, in this hall
Last Line: God to-day hath poor folk rais'd, and cast down the proud.
Variant Title(s): Masters In This Fall
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


FRENCH NOEL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here betwixt ass and oxen mild
Last Line: Keeping watch above incarnate god of love
Subject(s): Christmas


FRIENDLY BEASTS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jesus our brother, kind and good, was
Last Line: The gift he gave emmanuel
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


FROM FAR AWAY WE COME TO YOU, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "to tell of great tidings, strange and true"
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


FROM HEAVEN HIGH I COME TO YOU, by MARTIN LUTHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


GAME OF LETTERS, by LIZZIE J. ROOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have a game of letters
Subject(s): Christmas


GATES AND DOORS - A BALLAD OF CHRISTMAS EVE, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a gentle hostler
Last Line: The cradle of a king.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


GENTLE REMINDER, by ALICE MARLAND WELLINGTON ROLLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something new about christmas?
Subject(s): Christmas


GHOST STORY, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring out the tall tales now that we are told
Subject(s): Christmas


GIANT NIGHT, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake in a giant night
Last Line: Just like what is here one minute and not the next.
Subject(s): Christmas; December; Family Life; Holidays; New York City; Nativity, The; Relatives; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


GIFT, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On that quiet hillside in judea, I watched one lonely night
Last Line: And no man left as he entered, who had looked on the infant's face
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas


GIFT, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our children make christmas holy
Last Line: Who was that little christmas birthday boy
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas


GIFT (1), by LAURA SPENCER PORTOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, there be many candles bright
Subject(s): Christmas


GIFTS, by HELEN WIEAND COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Three kings there were from orient who came
Last Line: Bring that of which they have the chiefest, love.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Magi; Nativity, The


GIFTS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Myrrh and frankincense and gold
Last Line: "of the dark where thou wast laid?"
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


GIFTS OF PEACE, by D. ISABELLE MILLAR    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard the bells on christmas day
Last Line: God gave me peace as I knelt in prayer.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Prayer; Nativity, The


GLAD DAY, by W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's another day, dear
Subject(s): Christmas


GLORIA IN EXCELSIS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis christmas night! Again
Last Line: With heavenly love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


GLORIA IN EXCELSIS, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The angels sung, and thus sing we
Subject(s): Christmas


GLOUCESTER WASSAIL (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wassail, wassail, all over the town
Last Line: For to let these joly wassailers in
Subject(s): Christmas


GO TELL IT TO THE MOUNTAIN, by UNKNOWN+172    Poem Source                    
Last Line: That jesus christ is born
Subject(s): Christmas


GOAT, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Munching a battered bucket by the creche
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Christmas


GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas


GOD INCARNATE, by RUTH M. WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fairest lord jesus, serene you lay
Last Line: Some day we'll crown you our lord and king.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


GOD WITH US, by NANCY BYRD TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were three lights that night
Last Line: Immanuel!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


GOD'S CHRISTMAS TREE, by EVELYN C. REYNOLDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are all a part of the selfsame tree
Last Line: All men are a branch of the mother tree, %who loves and nurtures humanity
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Christmas


GOD'S UNSPEAKABLE GIFT, by MACEY P. SEALEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: One christmas night in the long ago
Last Line: "it's ""god's unspeakable gift."
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


GOING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rattle of the coaches say
Subject(s): Christmas


GOING TO THE POOR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A little maid tripped down the / street
Last Line: And wondered if the poor were I!
Subject(s): Charity; Children; Christmas; December; Kindness; Poverty; Philanthropy; Childhood; Nativity, The


GOLDEN HOLLY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Common holly bears a berry
Last Line: To cheer an old friend's eyes and nose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Holly; Roses; Nativity, The


GOLDIN REMEMBERS LAST CHRISTMAS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As he laid out the place mats on the grained oak table, goldin
Last Line: Clearly than if she were weeding in the garden
Subject(s): Christmas; Love; Memory


GOOD CHRISTIAN MEN, REJOICE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To gain his everlasting hall. %christ was born to save
Subject(s): Christmas


GOOD CHRISTIAN MEN, REJOICE (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To gain his everlasting hall. %christ was born to save
Subject(s): Christmas


GOOD DAY, GOOD DAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


GOOD KING WENCESLAS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good king wenceslas looked out
Last Line: Shall yourselves find blessing
Subject(s): Charity;christmas;christmas Carols; "philanthropy;nativity, The;


GOOD KING WENCESLAS (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good king wenceslas looked out %on the feast of stephen
Last Line: Ye who now will bless the poor, shall yourselves find blessing
Subject(s): Charity; Christmas


GOOD NIGHT, by HARRISON SMITH MORRIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good night, good night, the day is done
Last Line: Good-night!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


GOOD RELIEF, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall we, then, wish as many as possible
Last Line: In suffering is give you good relief.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


GRACIOUS SAVIOUR BORN OF MARY, by EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


GRANDFATHER, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You asked for a story
Last Line: And my story is your song
Subject(s): Christmas


GRANDMOTHER, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I waited at the foot
Last Line: Season, %a feast of family
Subject(s): Christmas


GRANDMOTHER JACKSON, by DAVID JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She spent three hundred and sixty four days a year
Subject(s): Christmas


GRANDPA'S CHRISTMAS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In his great cushioned chair by the fender
Last Line: "with grandma, this year."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Death; Grandparents; Past; Nativity, The; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GREEN CROSSES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the back of the pompous houses
Last Line: The green cross of love.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


GREEN GROW'TH THE HOLLY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


GREEN GROW'TH THE HOLLY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The god of life can never die %hope! Saith the holly
Subject(s): Christmas


GROWING OLD WOMAN, GRUMBLING OLD MAN, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've run out of patience, old man
Last Line: We needed to leave an hour ago
Subject(s): Aging; Christmas; Marriage


GUESTS, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why is there such a dancing dim
Subject(s): Christmas


GUESTS AT YULE, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Noel! Noel
Subject(s): Christmas


GULLAH NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by VIRGINIA MIXSON GERATY    Poem Source                    
First Line: E bin de night befo' chris'mus en' eenside we house
Last Line: Stillyet dey say uh pray fuh po' ole buh fox
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Gullahs; Santa Claus; Sea Islands Creole Dialect


HAIKU, by ERIC AMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow falling
Last Line: Christmas eve
Subject(s): Christmas


HAIKU ADVENT CALENDAR, by LAURENCE SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: After snowballing
Subject(s): Christmas


HAIL MARY, FULL OF GRACE, MOTHER IN VIRGINITY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The holy ghost is to thee sent
Variant Title(s): Mary Bore Both God And Ma
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible


HAIL, NOBLE FACE OF NOBLE FRIEND!, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Love starts the course, love seals the end
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Christmas


HANDS OF GOD, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hour is late, the household clocks bell deep
Last Line: Your sleep-rocked weary children one by one
Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Christmas


HANGING THE STOCKINGS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve! It's christmas eve!
Last Line: Bet to-morrow'll never come!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Waiting; Childhood; Nativity, The


HAPPY CHRISTMASTIDE, by GERTRUDE ELOISE BEALER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Holly berries red and bright
Last Line: Theirs a gladsome song!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Festivals; Singing & Singers; Youth; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fairs; Pageants; Songs


HAPPY OXEN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Happy oxen in a stall
Subject(s): Christmas


HAPPY SHEPHERDS, PIPE AND TRILL!, by ANNE LINDSAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnard, Lady Anne
Subject(s): Christmas


HAUGHTY ASPEN, by NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I went through the tangled wood
Subject(s): Christmas


HEART IS BETHLEHEM, by GERTRUDE HANSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dyed my rooms in candle glow
Subject(s): Christmas


HEAVEN'S MESSAGE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Visions of bethlehem come to me
Last Line: Brought down from heaven by angel's wing.
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas Carols; Heaven; Singing & Singers; Stars; Paradise; Songs


HERE WE COME A-WASSAILING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And god bless you, and send you %a happy new year
Subject(s): Christmas


HERE WE COME A-WASSAILING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here we come a-wassailing. Among the leaves so
Last Line: That round the table go
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


HERE WE COME A-WHISTLING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Holidays; New Year


HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, THE BOAR'S HEAD IS ARMED GAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


HILL CHRISTMAS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They came over the snow to the bread's
Last Line: The appalled body that had not asked to be born
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Christmas


HIS BIRTHDAY, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is his birthday - his, the holy child
Last Line: God is with man! Life, life to us is born!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


HIS BIRTHDAY, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day the christ-child's tender eyes
Last Line: May find somewhat to comfort them.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley
Subject(s): Birthdays; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


HIS CHRISTMAS SLED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch him with his christmas
Last Line: All glad things overtake you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The


HIS IS THE WAY', by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


HOAR-FROST, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wee folk, the fairy folk, have shaken out their laces
Last Line: And fairies' lacy petticoats all hanging out to air.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Seasons; Winter


HOG AT THE MANGER, by NORMA FARBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shall hog with holy child converse
Subject(s): Christmas


HOLLY, by EDITH KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: How happy the holly-tree looks, and how
Subject(s): Christmas


HOLLY AND IVY, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Holly standeth in ye house
Subject(s): Christmas


HOLLY AND MISTLETOE, by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fetch in the holly from the tree
Subject(s): Christmas


HOLLY AND PINE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When christmas comes with mirth and cheer
Last Line: When again the christmas angels come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Public Worship; Childhood; Church Attendance


HOLLY AND THE IVY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Sweet singing in the choir
Subject(s): Christmas


HOLLY AND THE IVY (3) (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The holly and the ivy %when they are both full grown
Last Line: Of all the trees that are in the wood, %the holly bears the crown
Subject(s): Christmas; Holly; Ivy


HOLLY BERRY, by THOMAS MILLER (1807-1874)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then drink to the holly berry
Subject(s): Christmas


HOLLY BERRY AND MISTLETOE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are bare, wild flies the snow
Last Line: Yule is the time of the holly berry.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


HOLLY CAROL, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toward the doors of lonely folk
Last Line: With holly round his head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holly; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


HOLY CHRISTMAS, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All after pleasures as I rid one day
Last Line: Till ev'n his beams sing, and my music shine.
Variant Title(s): Christmas
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


HOLY CITY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In palestine, in palestine %the flocks unsheltered sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas


HOLY INNOCENTS, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, the hay-bells tinkle as the cart
Last Line: Lamb of the shepherds, child, how still you lie
Subject(s): Christmas


HOLY NIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joseph, I afraid of stars
Subject(s): Christmas; Night; Nativity, The; Bedtime


HOLY NIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joseph, I afraid of stars
Last Line: Joseph, I shine, oh joseph, oh %illuminated night
Subject(s): Christmas; Night


HOLY NIGHT, by JOSEPH MOHR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silent night, holy night
Last Line: Jesus, lord, at thy birth.
Variant Title(s): Silent Night
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


HOLY NIGHT, by JOSEPH MOHR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silent night, holy [or, peaceful] night
Last Line: Lord, at thy birth
Variant Title(s): Silent Nigh
Subject(s): Christmas


HOLY NIGHT (WITH MUSIC), by JOSEPH MOHR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silent night, holy [or, peaceful] night
Last Line: Lord, at thy birth
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols


HOLY SONNET: NATIVITIE, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Immensitie cloysterd in thy deare wombe
Last Line: With his kinde mother, who partakes thy woe.
Variant Title(s): La Corona: 3. Nativity;sonnet On The Nativity;nativity
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


HOME ON CHRISTMAS DAY, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I bet a king upon a throne
Last Line: At home on christmas day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Home; Nativity, The


HOMELESS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O! Christmas day, oh! Happy day
Last Line: The desolate in heart.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


HOMELESS, by ELIZA KEARY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Without a home at holy christmas-tide
Last Line: Hide in god's heart, beloved, that great home is yours.
Subject(s): Christmas; Homeless; Nativity, The


HOMILY FOR CHRISTMAS, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord, it is your season, the time of snows
Last Line: Earth also sighs and everywhere the truant nations dream
Subject(s): Christmas


HORA CHRISTI, by ALICE BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet is the time for joyous folk
Last Line: The silence of the soul.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


HOUSE, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My attic knows those who are gone
Last Line: And I let them go %at the end
Subject(s): Christmas


HOUSE, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am one hundred years
Last Line: And I let them go %at the end
Subject(s): Christmas


HOW FAR IS IT TO BETHLEHEM (WITH MUSIC), by FRANCES ALICE CHESTERTON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Sleep, as they sleep who find their heart's desire
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, Gilbert Keith, Mrs
Subject(s): Christmas


HOW FAR TO BETHLEHEM?, by MADELEINE SWEENY MILLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How far is it to bethlehem town?
Last Line: "the homes of folks like me and you."
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


HOW THE CHRIST-FLOWER BLOOMED, by NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dark was the sky that christmas eve
Subject(s): Christmas


HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS BY SEA, by NORMA FARBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fish of the sea couldn't come
Subject(s): Christmas; Messengers


HUE AND CRY AFTER CHRISTMAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Any man or woman ... That can give any
Subject(s): Christmas


HUMMINGBIRD, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stowaway in a fold
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Christmas


HURON CAROL, by JESSIE EDGAR MIDDLETON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas in the moon of winter-time
Subject(s): Christmas


HUSH, ALL YE SOUNDS OF WAR, by WILLIAM H. DRAPER    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Draper, W. H.
Subject(s): Christmas


HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS DAY (WITH MUSIC), by JOHN BYROM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christians awake, salute the happy morn
Last Line: Saved by his love, incessant we shall sing %eternal praise to heav'n's almighty king
Subject(s): Christmas


HYMN FOR EPIPHANY, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brightest and best of the sons of the morning
Last Line: Guide where our infant redeemer is laid.
Variant Title(s): Christmas Hymn;epiphany
Subject(s): Christmas; Epiphany; Nativity, The; Twelfth Night


HYMN FOR EPIPHANY (WITH MUSIC), by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brightest and best of the sons of the morning
Last Line: Star of the east, the horizon adorning, %guide where our infant redeemer is laid
Subject(s): Christmas


HYMN FOR ST. JOHN'S EVE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O sylvan prophet! Whose eternal fame
Last Line: Whilst each glad parent told and blessed / the secrets of each other's breast
Variant Title(s): Hymn For The Nativity Of St. John Baptist
Subject(s): Christmas;latin Literature;prophecy & Prophets; "nativity, The;roman Literature;


HYMN FOR THE NATIVITY, by EDWARD THRING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Happy night and happy silence downward
Subject(s): Christmas


HYMN IN THE HOLY NATIVITY (1), by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come wee shepherds who have seen
Last Line: At last, in fire of thy faire eyes, %wee'l burne, our owne best sacrifice
Variant Title(s): A Hymn On The Nativity, Sung By The Shepherd
Subject(s): Christmas


HYMN OF GLADNESS, by THOMAS MAIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above our heads, form out the clear, deep
Subject(s): Christmas


HYMN SUNG AT CHRISTMAS BY SCHOLARS OF ST. HELENA'S ISLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, none in all the world before
Last Line: That sets the island free!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Christmas; Freedom; St. Helena's Island, South Carolina; U.s. - History; Nativity, The; Liberty


HYMN TO JOY, by JULIA CUNNINGHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give greatly of your grunts, o pig!
Subject(s): Christmas


HYMN: 32. THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, by CHRISTOPHER SMART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is this stupendous stranger
Last Line: Of the very world he made.
Variant Title(s): The Nativity Of Our Lord;the Nativity Of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


HYMN: CHRISTMAS DAY, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh saviour, whom this holy morn
Last Line: May we rejoice with thee!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 2. CHRISTMAS CAROL, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What though the snow be on the hill
Last Line: Let us behold thy guiding light!
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood


I DO NOT LIKE A ROOF TONIGHT, by GRACE NOLL CROWELL    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


I DO! DON'T YOU?, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer,' said the humming bee
Last Line: "I like winter best—don't you?"
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Winter; Childhood; Nativity, The


I HAVE LIGHTED THE CANDLES, MARY, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


I HAVE LIGHTED THE CANDLES, MARY, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


I HEARD A MESS OF MERRY SHEPHERDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


I MUST LIGHT A CANDLE, by GERTRUDE HANSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I must light a glowing candle
Subject(s): Christmas


I PRAY YOU, BE MERRY AND SING WITH ME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Into this world, this day did come
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


I REMEMBER WHEN JESUS WEPT, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Fat legs %frozen %in the air
Subject(s): Arabs; Christmas; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood And Youth; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


I SAW A STABLE, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a stable, low and very bare
Last Line: And the world's danger.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos
Variant Title(s): Salus Mundi
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


I SAW THREE SHIPS, by MOTHER GOOSE    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw three ships coming sailing in, / on christmas day, on christmas day
Last Line: On christmas day in the morning.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


I SING OF A MAIDEN, by MARTIN FALLAS SHAW    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


I'M SO EXCITED, by CHRIS JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm so excited, jesus
Subject(s): Christmas


IF ALL THE LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREES, by CAROLYN SHERWIN BAILEY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


IF I WERE SANTA CLAUS, by ROSAMUND LIVINGSTONE MCNAUGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I could be old santa claus
Subject(s): Christmas


ILLUMINATION, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ground lapis for the sky, and scrolls of gold
Last Line: That will find their way to the light through drifts of snow
Subject(s): Christmas; Light; Snow; Nativity, The


ILLUMINATION, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ground lapis for the sky, and scrolls of gold
Last Line: That will find their way to the light through drifts of snow
Subject(s): Christmas; Light; Snow


IN A LOW ROCKING-CHAIR, by HELEN COALE CREW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heaven is a fine place, a fine place entirely
Last Line: Come back along to me.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


IN BETHLEHEM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come back to-day to bethlehem
Last Line: Where yet the angels are!
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Stars; Nativity, The


IN CHRISTMAS LAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the beams and gleams came the christmas dreams
Last Line: To the homes and hearts of you!
Subject(s): Children;christmas;dreams;parades;soldiers; "childhood;nativity, The;nightmares;


IN DIE NATIVITATIS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The boar's head that we bring here
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


IN DIE NATIVITATIS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


IN DUCLI IUBILO, by JOHN WEDDERBURN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now let us sing with mirth and joy
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


IN HEAVEN ABOVE, by EVA A. WIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Break light in golden dust on crystal lake
Last Line: And share an angel's christmas in that land.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 104, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time draws near the birth of christ
Last Line: But all is new unhallow'd ground.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): The Bells Of Yule
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 106, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky
Last Line: Ring in the christ that is to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): The New Year;the Old Year And The New
Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 28, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time draws near the birth of christ
Last Line: The merry, merry bells of yule.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): Christmas Eve;christmas Bells;the Birth Of Christ;rise, Happy Morn
Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 78, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again at christmas did we weave
Last Line: But with long use her tears are dry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


IN MEMORIAM: TO BAYARD TAYLOR BEYOND US; A VISION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As here within I watch the fervid coals
Last Line: A thousand heavenly clarions seem to blow!
Subject(s): Christmas; Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); Nativity, The


IN NOTHING BE ANXIOUS, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Winter lies long about us. It is heavy
Last Line: The lord is at hand. In nothing be anxious
Subject(s): Christmas


IN PRAESEPIO, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In stable straw the infant lay
Subject(s): Christmas


IN SANTA CLAUS TIME, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ain't they lookin' rosy
Subject(s): Christmas


IN THE HOLY NATIVITY [OF OUR LORD GOD]; AS SUNG BY SHEPHERDS, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, we shepherds, whose blest sight
Last Line: Our selves become our own best sacrifice.
Variant Title(s): At Bethlehem;hymn Of The Nativity;the Nativity;hymn In The Holy Nativity (2)
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


IN THE HONOUR OF CHRISTES BIRTH, SING WE ALL WITH JOY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this time of christmas
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


IN THE LONELY MIDNIGHT, by THEODORE CHICKERING WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


IN THE TOWN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take heart, the journey's ended
Subject(s): Christmas


IN THE TOWN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take heart, the journey's ended
Subject(s): Christmas


IN THE WEEK WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES, by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let every pudding burst with plums
Subject(s): Christmas


IN THINE OWN HEART, by JOHANNES SCHEFFLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though christ a thousand times
Last Line: Alone can make thee whole
Alternate Author Name(s): Silesius, Angelus
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Religion


INCARNATE LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love came down at christmas
Last Line: Love for plea and gift and sign.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): Christmastide
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


INDIAN CHRISTMAS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother with no christmas gifts
Last Line: On holy night I offer %my child quite bare
Subject(s): Christmas


INNKEEPER'S WIFE, by CLIVE SANSOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love this byre. Shadows are kindly here
Subject(s): Christmas


INNKEEPER'S WIFE, by CLIVE SANSOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a night in winter
Subject(s): Christmas


INTO THIS WORLD NOW IS COME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O worthy lord and most of might
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ISAIAH'S COAL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always, he woke in those days
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Christmas; Love; Nativity, The


IVY CHIEF OF TREES IT IS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The most worthy she is in town
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


JANUARY, by DOUGLAS GIBSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snow has melted now
Subject(s): Christmas


JANUARY, by JOHN HEATH-STUBBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under a white coverlet of snow
Subject(s): Christmas


JEST 'FORE CHRISTMAS, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father calls me william, sister calls me will
Last Line: Jes 'fore christmas be as good as yer kin be!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


JESU, AS THOU ART OUR SAVIOUR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


JESU, FILI DEI, by JOHN TROULUFFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glorious god in trinity
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


JESU, FILI VIRGNIS, MISERERE NOBIS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jesus, of a maid thou wouldst be born
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


JINGLE BELLS, by JAMES S. PIERPONT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh
Last Line: And, crack, you'll take the lead
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


JOIN THE CAROLING, by ROWENA BASTIN BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come out and join the caroling
Subject(s): Christmas


JOLLY WASSAIL-BOWL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


JOSEPH, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams
Last Line: The virgin mary by the fire?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion


JOSEPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never in all her sweet and holy youth
Last Line: Is not yet given ... One day I may know!
Subject(s): Children; Christianity; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Childhood; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


JOSEPH BEING AN AGED MAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


JOSEPH'S SUSPICION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the angel, taking some pains, told
Subject(s): Christmas


JOSEPH, JESUS AND MARY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


JOURNEY BACK TO CHRISTMAS, by GWEN DUNN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I ran to the church
Subject(s): Christmas


JOURNEY OF THE MAGI, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A cold coming we had of it
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi; Estrangement; Outcasts; Nativity, The


JOURNEY OF THE MAGI, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A cold coming we had of it
Last Line: With an alien people clutching their gods. %I should be glad of another death
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Christianity; Christmas; Loss; Magi


JUBILATE HERBIS, by NORMA FARBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let christmas celebrate greenly. For the fir is king of the forest
Subject(s): Christmas


JUBILATE!, by ADELINE M. JENNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We do not need, dear friend, to seek
Last Line: And jubilance of christmas day!
Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The


JUNIPER, by TUA MARINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who does not love the juniper tree
Subject(s): Christmas


KARMA, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas was in the air and all was well
Last Line: A dime for jesus who had died for men.
Subject(s): Charity; Christmas; Salvation Army; Philanthropy; Nativity, The


KEEPEN UP O' CHRIS'MAS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An' zoo ya didden come athirt
Last Line: A keepen up o' chris'mas
Subject(s): Christmas


KEEPING CHRISTMAS, by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How will you your christmas keep?
Subject(s): Christmas


KICKING OFF THE CHRISTMAS SEASON, by BETTY PARASKEVAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Junior kroll surrendered a sigh
Last Line: It means that christmas is coming
Subject(s): Christmas


KID STUFF, by FRANK HORNE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wise guys
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Negroes; American Blacks; Nativity, The


KID STUFF, by FRANK HORNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wise guys
Last Line: In the hope %that we can get back %some of that %kid stuff %born two thousand years ago
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas


KING CHRISTMAS, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now old king christmas, bearded hoary-white
Last Line: The gift of christmas is but pain that racks
Subject(s): Christmas


KING WITLAF'S DRINKING-HORN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Witlaf, a king of the saxons
Last Line: "we must drink to one saint more!"
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


KINGS CAME RIDING, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Stars in the sky
Subject(s): Christmas


KRISS KRINGLE, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: If there's any one here who ever has seen
Subject(s): Christmas


LADY SELECTING HER CHRISTMAS CARDS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fastidiously, with gloved and careful fingers
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


LADY SELECTING HER CHRISTMAS CARDS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fastidiously, with gloved and careful fingers
Last Line: Twelve-fifty for the box
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas


LADYBUG'S CHRISTMAS, by NORMA FARBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: From winter-sleep
Last Line: Over his heart
Subject(s): Christmas


LAMB WAS BLEATING SOFTLY', by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: He was there %he was
Subject(s): Christmas; Love


LATE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I name the dead I loved and love
Last Line: For candles to shiver and go out
Subject(s): Christmas; Night; Prayer


LEDA HIDDEN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve, unseasonable cold
Subject(s): Christmas; Parks; Snow; Nativity, The


LEDA HIDDEN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve, unseasonable cold
Last Line: And the snow and the odor %of the frosty water
Subject(s): Christmas; Parks; Snow


LEFT OUT, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If shoemakers' children are left with feet bare
Last Line: Left over for santa claus' own girls and boys!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


LEGEND, by PETER ILICH TSCHAIKOVSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christ, when a child, a garden made
Subject(s): Christmas


LEGEND OF THE CHRIST-CHILD, by MARY CLARKE HUNTINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was dark and cold in the cottage
Subject(s): Christmas


LEGEND OF THE CHRISTMAS ROSE, by CORINNE BULLARD JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: That christmas night, long, long ago
Last Line: The message of the savior's birth.
Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Roses; Nativity, The


LET US THANK GOD FOR CHRISTMAS, by J. D. SEARLE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


LETTER AT CHRISTMAS, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The big wooden clock you gave me
Last Line: In the kearsage mini-mart
Subject(s): Christmas; Letters; Nativity, The


LETTER AT CHRISTMAS, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The big wooden clock you gave me
Last Line: I press my penis %into zinc and butcherblock
Subject(s): Christmas; Letters


LETTER FROM ALICE, by IRIS JAMIESON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear mom / today, I found god!
Last Line: He's a methodist!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


LETTER FROM SANTA CLAUS, by WILLIAM HOWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Merry christmas! Little children
Subject(s): Christmas


LEWIS D. HAYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the midmost glee of the christmas
Last Line: Gave it again to him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Guests; Holidays; New Year; Voices; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting


LIFE'S CHRISTMAS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The faint, sweet light breaks over the hills
Last Line: To light our way through the valley.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


LIGHT OF CHRISTMAS, by NORVAL CLYNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blasts of chill december sound
Subject(s): Christmas


LINES FOR A CHRISTMAS CARD, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: May all my enemies go to hell
Last Line: May all my enemies go to hell! / noel! Noel!
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Hate; Christmas Cards


LINES GIVEN TO M. AT CHRISTMAS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I give thee, dear, to-day
Last Line: The anguish of the lifted cross.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Love; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness


LITTLE BENNIE, by ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had told him, christmas morning
Last Line: For the blessing of a child
Variant Title(s): Benn
Subject(s): Children; Christmas


LITTLE CHILD THERE IS YBORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


LITTLE DAVID'S CHRISTMAS, by MARY FRANCES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little hunchback david
Last Line: Is tall, and straight, and strong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cearnach, Conal
Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Christmas Trees; Infants; Nativity, The


LITTLE DONKEY, by FRANCIS JAMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The little donkey pulls its cart
Subject(s): Christmas; Donkeys


LITTLE GOTTLIEB'S CHRISTMAS, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the german ocean
Last Line: "he put the thought in your heart!"
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


LITTLE GRAY LAMB, by ARCHIBALD BERESFORD SULLIVAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out on the endless purple hills, deep in the clasp of somber night
Subject(s): Christmas


LITTLE JESUS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little jesus, wast thou shy
Last Line: Has not changed since thou wast young!
Variant Title(s): Ex Ore Infantium;a Child's Prayer
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Prayer; Childhood; Nativity, The


LITTLE JOHNTS'S CHRIS'MUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We got it up a-purpose, jes' fer little johnts, you know
Last Line: "a-cryin' 'cause I watched you all, an' knowed it all the time!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Dreams; Fairy Tales; Nativity, The; Nightmares


LITTLE MANDY'S CHRISTMAS TREE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little mandy and her ma
Last Line: Bigger than the other tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas Trees; Poverty; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood


LITTLE MUD-SPARROWS, by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I like that old, kind legend
Alternate Author Name(s): Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Phelps, Mary Gray
Subject(s): Christmas


LITTLE SNOWFLAKES, by ELLA M. POWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are little snowflakes
Subject(s): Christmas


LO, HOW A ROSE E'ER BLOOMING, by MICHAEL PRAETORIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lo, how a rose e'er blooming, from tender
Last Line: When half spent was the night
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


LORDINGS, LISTEN TO OUR LAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays


LOS PASTORES, by EDITH AGNEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let me tell you the story
Subject(s): Christmas


LOS PASTORES DE BELEN: A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As ye go through these palm-trees
Last Line: Stay ye the branches.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


LOST CHRISTMAS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is alone, it is christmas
Last Line: With him. But the mind was before %him on the long road. The manger is empty
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Christmas


LUKE, SELS., by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE                       
Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Religion; Women - Bible


LULLABY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The baby child of mary
Last Line: The son of god is near
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


LULLABY, by JANET LEWIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lullee, lullay %I could not love thee more
Last Line: But loved him just the same. %lullee, lullee, lullay
Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion


LULLAY, JESU, LULLAY, LULLAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So blessed a sight it was to see
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


LULLAY, LULLAY, THOU LITTLE TINY CHILD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O sisters two
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


LULLAY, MY CHILD, AND WEEP NO MORE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


LULLING, OR CRADLE SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet was the song the virgin sang
Last Line: And sweetly rocked him on her knee
Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible


M AND A AND R AND I, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of these four letters purpose I
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MADISON SQUARE: CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is our worth. We cannot rear the towers
Last Line: And every one a star of bethlehem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian
Subject(s): Christmas; Happiness; Madison Square, New York City; Skyscrapers; Theater & Theaters; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight; Stage Life


MADONNA OF THE CARPENTER SHOP, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Source                    
First Line: O mary, in thy clear young eyes
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas


MAGI, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: How brief that holy hour they knew
Subject(s): Christmas


MAGI CALL HIM KING; A CHRISTMAS SONG, by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME    Poem Source                    
First Line: O shepherds, while you watch your flocks
Last Line: Though he be called 'good shepherd' too, %the magi call him king
Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee
Subject(s): Christmas


MAGIC MONTH, by FRANK GELETT BURGESS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the magic month of all the year
Alternate Author Name(s): Burgess, Gelett
Subject(s): Christmas


MAGUS, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The few, the lucky, make their way
Last Line: There is nothing it does not know about the stars.
Subject(s): Christmas; Puppets; Nativity, The; Marionettes


MAID-SERVANT AT THE INN, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's queer, she said; I see the light
Last Line: I've prayed that all is well with them
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ


MAKE MERRY THIS NEW YEAR, THANKING GOD WITH ... CHEER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gabriel, brighter than the sun
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MAKE WE JOY IN THIS FEAST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MAKE WE MERRY IN HALL AND BOWER, THIS TIME IS BORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this time god hath sent
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MAKE WE MERRY IN THIS FEAST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Godes son for the love of man
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MAKE WE MIRTH FOR CHRISTES BIRTH, AND SING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first day of yule have we in mind
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MAKING FRIENDS, by LEANDER M. ZIMMERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The fine art of forming friendships
Last Line: Ev'ry day a glad new year.
Subject(s): Christmas; Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The


MAKING THE BEST OF THE HOLIDAYS, by JAMES TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Justine called on christmas day to say she
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


MAN, BE GLAD IN HALL AND BOWER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this time christ hath us sent
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MAN, BE JOYFUL AND MIRTH THOU MAKE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Man, be merry, I thee rede
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MAN, BE MERRY AS BIRD ON BERRY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This time is born a child full good
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MAN, MOVE THY MIND, AND JOY THIS FEAST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I came by the way
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MANHATTAN'S DEAR ISLE; U.S.S. RELIEF, CALLAO, PERU, 1843, by W. F. SPICER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis the evening of christmas, the maskers have met
Last Line: Until from the land of the stranger she's borne, %and anchors once more near manhattan's dear isle
Subject(s): Christmas; Navy - United States


MARCH OF THE THREE KINGS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This highway %beheld at break of day
Subject(s): Christmas


MARK WELL MY HEAVY DOLEFUL TALE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


MARMION: CANTO 1. THE CASTLE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day set on norham's castled steep
Last Line: Which gave again the prospect fair.
Subject(s): Castles; Christmas; Courage; Faith; Flodden Field, England; Love; Nativity, The; Valor; Bravery; Belief; Creed


MARMION: CANTO 6. INTRODUCTION, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill
Last Line: And store of literary wealth.
Subject(s): Christmas; Flodden Field, England; Heber, Richard; Leyden, John (1775-1811); Vikings; Nativity, The


MARVEL NOT JOSEPH, ON MARY MILD', by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I, joseph, wonder how this may be
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MARY, by ROBERT NORWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fairest of women must have been that maid
Last Line: When all the morning stars hosannaed earth!
Subject(s): Christmas; Gabriel; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB, by MADELEINE NIGHTINGALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blessed mary has a lamb
Subject(s): Christmas


MARY PONDERED ALL THESE THINGS', by EDWIN MCNEILL POTEAT JR.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother mary's mind
Subject(s): Christmas


MARY'S GIRLHOOD (FOR A PICTURE): 1, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is that blessed mary, pre-elect
Last Line: Because the fulness of the time was come.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Variant Title(s): Mary's Childhood
Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


MARY'S SONG, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, king jesus
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Christmas


MARY, MOTHER OF CHRIST, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That night she felt those searching hands
Last Line: How could she know the rest?
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


MARY, MOTHER OF CHRIST, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That night she felt those searching hands
Subject(s): Christmas


MASTERS IN THE HALL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To bethlem did they go, the shepherds three
Subject(s): Christmas


MATER SALUTARIS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Saint mary, mother mild
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MEDITATION FOR CHRIATMAS DAY, by SELWYN IMAGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider, o my soul, what morn is this!
Subject(s): Christmas


MEMORIES, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do you look earthward sometimes
Last Line: That through you we are set free
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas


MEN MAY TALK OF COUNTRY-CHRISTMASES, by PHILIP MASSINGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


MENDHAM, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know--I know
Last Line: And the hedges are all in bud.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


MERRY CHRISTMAS, by MARY CROMWELL LOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: May I say to you this morning
Subject(s): Christmas


MERRY CHRISTMAS, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Santas wring the peace for our salvation,
Last Line: Will rest again to sleep till christmas night.
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus


MERRY CHRISTMAS, by M. D. STERLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: M stands for merry - oh' let us be merry
Subject(s): Christmas


MERRY CHRISTMAS, by DOROTHY BROWN THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good will to men - christmas
Subject(s): Christmas


MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS, by CARINE L. ROSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! 'merry, merry christmas'
Subject(s): Christmas


MESSAGE, by ELLA M. POWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: One true thing I have to say
Subject(s): Christmas


MICE IN THE HAY, by LESLIE NORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the lamplight %whispering worshipping
Last Line: Hurried back out of sight %whispering worshipping
Subject(s): Christmas


MIDNIGHT IN BONNIE'S STALL, by SIDDIE JOE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, bonnie is the little cow
Subject(s): Christmas


MIDNIGHT MASS FOR THE DYING YEAR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, the year is growing old
Last Line: Christe, eleyson!
Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The


MILLENNIUM, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the basement
Last Line: At the turn of the century
Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Holidays; New Year


MILTIADES GETS THE BEST OF SANTA CLAUS, by CHARLES REMINGTON TALBOT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of course,' said mitiades peterking paul
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus


MINSTREL'S SONG, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've just had an astounding dream as I lay in the straw
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Christmas


MIRACLES AT THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The king of glory sends his son
Last Line: Who condescended to be born
Subject(s): Christmas


MISCARRIAGE, by LINDA WASMER SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: There has been a death in the family
Subject(s): Christmas


MISS NOBODY'S CHRISTMAS DINNER, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One might travel this wide world over & over
Last Line: An emblem too true of this make-believe world.
Subject(s): Christmas; Dinners & Dining; Guests; Hospitality; Parties; Nativity, The; Visiting


MISSISSIPPI SLEIGH RIDE, by THOMAS M. DISCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: When santa's loading up his sleigh at christmas
Last Line: Cause santa loves suburban children most of all
Subject(s): Christmas; Mississippi; Santa Claus


MISTLETOE, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Neath mistletoe, should chance arise
Subject(s): Christmas


MISTLETOE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the cradle-bough of a naked tree
Last Line: "let now my soul depart."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Mistletoe; Nativity, The


MISTLETOE AND HOLLY, by ALICE R. TAGGART    Poem Text                    
First Line: The frost and snow of mistletoe
Last Line: And on thy breast the holly.
Variant Title(s): Love's Token
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


MODRYB MARYA - AUNT MARY; A CHRISTMAS CHANT, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, of all the trees by the king's highway
Last Line: For that is our sweet aunt mary's tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S.
Variant Title(s): Aunt Mary;the Holly
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Holly


MOON SHONE BRIGHT; OR, THE BELLMAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MOONLESS DARKNESS STANDS BETWEEN, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


MORE SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS (TEN YEARS LATER): 1, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again the native hour lets down the locks
Last Line: This crucial day, whose decapitate joke %languidly winds into the inner ear
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Christmas; War


MORE SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS (TEN YEARS LATER): 2, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day's at end and there's nowhere to go
Last Line: Well-milked chinese, negroes who cannot sing, %the huns gelded and feeding in a ring
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Christmas; War


MORE SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS (TEN YEARS LATER): 3, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me this day a faith not personal
Last Line: Is of an enemy in remote oceans %unstalked by christ: these are the better notions
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Christmas; War


MORE SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS (TEN YEARS LATER): 4, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Citizen, myself, or personal friend
Last Line: Mild-mannered, gifted in your masters' ease %while the sun squats upon the waveless seas
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Christmas; War


MOSAIC OF THE NATIVITY: SERBIA, WINTER, 1993, by JANE KENYON    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the domed ceiling god
Last Line: Lodges and begins to grow
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Christmas; Serbia; Nativity, The; Servia


MOSAIC OF THE NATIVITY: SERBIA, WINTER, 1993, by JANE KENYON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the domed ceiling god
Last Line: Of christ, cloaked in blood, %lodges and begins to grow
Subject(s): Balkan Conflicts (yugoslavia); Christmas; Serbia


MOTHER, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rush, the hurry
Last Line: On a worried man %soon to be at peace
Subject(s): Christmas


MOTHER OF GOD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare
Last Line: Or strikes a sudden chill into my bones %and bids my hair stand up?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion


MOTHER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is so still in the house
Last Line: Is it strange if I start to cry with joy?
Subject(s): Christmas; Eskimos; Mothers; Native Americans


MOTHER, WHITE AS LILY FLOWER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I up rose in a morning
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MOUSIE, by M. NORA BOYLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A mousie got into a great christmas pie
Subject(s): Christmas


MR. BLEANEY, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was mr. Bleaney's room. He stayed
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Nativity, The


MR. BLEANEY, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This was mr. Bleaney's room. He stayed
Last Line: Than one hired box should make him pretty sure %he warranted no better, I don't know
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays


MR. FOLEY'S CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since pick av them I'm sore denied
Last Line: A dishgraced workin'-man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Labor & Laborers; Nativity, The; Work; Workers


MR. ST. NICHOLAS, by ALICE M. KELLOGG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, christmas time has come again
Subject(s): Christmas


MRS. KRISS KRINGLE, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I laugh to hear what grown folk
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus


MRS. MAGUIRE - A CHRISTMAS GIFT, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sure, it's not the fine 'ating, and such
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Christmas


MUSIC ON CHRISTMAS MORNING, by ANNE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Music I love - but never strain
Last Line: Will lead us home to god again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton
Subject(s): Christmas; Music & Musicians; Nativity, The


MY CHRISTMAS SECRETS, by S. C. PEABODY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hurry christmas! How you creep
Subject(s): Christmas


MY CHRISTMAS: MUM'S CHRISTMAS, by SARAH FORSYTHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Decorations climbing up to the loft on a wobbly ladder
Subject(s): Christmas


MY GIVING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ask no merrier christmas
Last Line: That night.
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


MY HEART OF GOLD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MY LOVE THAT MOURNETH FOR ME, by JOHN GWYNNETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: And I mankind
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MY MASTER AND DAME, I WELL PERCEIVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


MY SISTER'S SLEEP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She fell asleep on christmas eve
Last Line: Christ's blessing on the newly born!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Christmas; Sleep; Nativity, The


MYSTIC MAGI, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three ancient men in bethlehem's cave
Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S.
Variant Title(s): The Southern Cros
Subject(s): Christmas


NATIVITY, by RAFAEL DE LA FUENTE BENAVIDES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your eyes %join hands
Subject(s): Christmas


NATIVITY, by GLADYS MAY CASELY HAYFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within a native hut, ere stirred the dawn
Last Line: And kissed their motherhood into his mother's eyes
Subject(s): Christmas


NATIVITY, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The babe was laid in the manger
Last Line: It is well -- it is well with the child!
Subject(s): Christmas


NATIVITY, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Town of a hundred thousand hands
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


NATIVITY, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Angels, from the realms of glory
Last Line: Come and worship, worship christ, the new-born king
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion


NATIVITY, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fiends tear me to blood
Last Line: As the lack of love.
Subject(s): Christmas; Death; Love; Nativity, The; Dead, The


NATIVITY, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is the hinge of history - the hour
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Christmas


NATIVITY, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace? And to all the world? Sure, one
Last Line: And say once more, let there be light
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Christmas


NATIVITY (WITH MUSIC), by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Angels, from the realms of glory
Last Line: Come and worship, worship christ, the new-born king
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols


NATIVITY CAROL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o my deir hert, young jesus sweit"
Last Line: And sing that richt balulalow!
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


NATIVITY OF CHRIST, by LUIS DE GONGORA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today from the aurora's bosom
Last Line: That flower had fallen, - that crimson blossom
Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De
Subject(s): Birth; Catholic Church - Clergy; Christmas; Jesus Christ


NATIVITY SCENE, by ETHEL POCHOCKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sofia, %the two-year-old granddaughter
Last Line: She wraps it with the gold, %and they move on
Subject(s): Christmas; Grandchildren


NEARING CHRISTMAS, by TONY TOWLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A frog croaks continually in the pond below
Last Line: Frank you've got to help me %and there is an answer but not at this moment
Subject(s): Christmas


NEIGHBORS OF BETHLEHEM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good neighbor, tell me why that sound
Subject(s): Christmas


NEIGHBORS OF THE CHRIST NIGHT, by NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deep in the shelter of the cave
Subject(s): Christmas


NEVER NIGHT AGAIN, by LILIAN EDITH COX    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soft light from a stable door
Subject(s): Christmas


NEW CAROL OF OUR LADY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lords and ladies all bydene
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NEW FRIENDS, by BETTY PARASKEVAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Junior kroll decided to visit
Last Line: That grew between two fine old houses %and marked the boundaries
Subject(s): Christmas


NEW NUTCRACKER SUITE, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little girl marched around her christmas tree
Subject(s): Christmas


NEW PRINCE, NEW POMP, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, a silly [or, little] tender babe
Last Line: Which he from heaven doth bring.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


NEW THINGS AND OLD; CHRISTMAS, 1941, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dark is shattered
Last Line: On all these things.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


NEW YEAR, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each new year is a leaf of our love's rose
Subject(s): Christmas


NEW YEAR, by CHRISTOPHER SMART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Word of endless adoration
Last Line: Which attend to my rehearsal %of melodious pray'r below
Subject(s): Christmas


NEW YEAR IS BEGUN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NEW YEAR POEM, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The short afternoon ends, and the year is over
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The


NEW YEAR POEM, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The short afternoon ends, and the year is over
Last Line: Us who need you, and are affected by your fortune; %us you should love and to whom you should give y
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year


NEW YEAR'S DAY, by W. E. A. AXON    Poem Source                    
First Line: With mirth and joy the new year comes
Subject(s): Christmas


NEW YEAR'S DAY, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rise, thou best and brightest morning!
Last Line: But in thy fairest eyes find two for one.
Variant Title(s): Hymn For New Year's Day
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The


NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again and then again ... The year is born
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The


NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again and then again ... The year is born
Last Line: The child is born in blood, o child of blood
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year


NEW YEAR'S [OR, YEAR] SONG, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now there comes the christmas rose
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays


NEW YEAR, A NEW YEAR, A CHILD WAS YBORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The father of heaven his own son he sent
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NICKY, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did they remember the rocket
Last Line: I'll probably never sleep
Subject(s): Christmas


NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS, by ANNE P. L. FIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas the night after christmas in santa-claus land
Subject(s): Christmas


NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the night before christmas
Subject(s): Christmas


NINETY-FIVE, A HUNDRED, by FORREST HAMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's say the self is a story
Last Line: For somebody's next surprise
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Christmas; Gifts And Giving; Santa Claus


NO ROOM, by ELLIS ARTHUR REPASS    Poem Text                    
First Line: No room that night for them
Last Line: And crown messiah king!
Alternate Author Name(s): Repass, E. A.
Subject(s): Christmas; Travel; Nativity, The; Journeys; Trips


NO ROOM, by ROBERT WHITAKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once when they gathered long ago
Subject(s): Christmas


NOEL, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a winter's night long time ago
Last Line: And the small child jesus smile on you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


NOEL, by JEANNETTE EVERETT LAWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How soft the fingers of the snow
Last Line: And let the christmas spirit pass.
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Snow; Winter; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


NOEL, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a single / ornament,
Subject(s): Cardinals (birds); Christmas; Nativity, The


NOEL, by M LABBE SIMON-JOSEPH PELLEGRIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear infant! Tender, new-born child!
Last Line: And through the countless ages burn!
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


NOEL FOR CHRISTMAS, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: O sing noel to the saviour come
Last Line: For all is well, all well, noel. %amen
Subject(s): Christmas


NOEL: CHRISTMAS EVE, 1913, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A frosty christmas eve
Last Line: Of th' eternal silence.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


NOR HOUSE NOR HEART, by ELINOR LENNEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Room for all else but love
Subject(s): Christmas


NOS EXAUDI, DOMINE!, by HERBERT P. HORNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are but of such mortal mould
Subject(s): Christmas


NOVA, NOVA: AVE FIT EX EVA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gabriel of high degree
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOVITIATE, by PADRAIG J. DALY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christmas was the start of our disillusion
Last Line: Excluded from familiar warmth %like joseph seeking room in bethlehem
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Gifts And Giving; Holidays


NOVUS SOL DE VIRGINE RELUXIT NOBIS ODIE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou holy daughter of sion
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOW BE WE GLAD, AND NOT TOO SAD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This may I prove withouten let
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOW CHRISTMAS DRAWETH NEAR, by NICHOLAS BRETON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOW EVERY MAN AT MY REQUEST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


NOW HAVE GOOD DAY, NOW HAVE GOOD DAY!, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


NOW IS CHRISTMAS YCOME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOW IS THE TIME OF CHRISTMAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Make me myrie bothe more and lasse
Last Line: For now is the tyme of cristemasse
Subject(s): Christmas


NOW IS WELL AND ALL THINGS ARIGHT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOW LET US SING, BOTH MORE AND LESS OF CHRIST'S COMING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A virgin pure, this is full sure
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOW MAKE WE MERRY, ALL AND SOME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOW SING WE WITH ANGELIS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A babe is born, to bliss us bring
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOW SING WE WITH JOY AND BLISS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mary, flower of flowers all
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOW SING WE, BOTH ALL AND SOME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When saint stephen was at jerusalem
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOW SING WE, SING WE: GLORIA TIBI, DOMINE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christ keep us all, as he well can
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOW THAT THE TIME HAS COME WHEREIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: To feed thy needy neighbors
Subject(s): Charity;christmas; "philanthropy;nativity, The;


NOW TRICE WELCOME CHRISTMAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


NOW WE SHOULD SING AND SAY NOWELL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From heaven was sent an angel of light
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOWELL SING WE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nowell sing we, both all and some
Last Line: Now rex pacifcus is ycome
Subject(s): Christmas


NOWELL, EL, EL, EL, EL I THANK A MAIDEN EVERY DEAL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first day when christ was born
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOWELL, ELL, BOTH OLD AND YING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOWELL, ELL, ELL, ELL ... MARY WAS GREETED BY GABRIEL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mary mother, meek and mild
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOWELL, ELL, ELL, ELL, NOW IS WELL THAT EVER WAS WOE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


NOWELL, NOWELL ... THIS IS THE SALUTATION OF GABRIEL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tidings true, there be come new
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


O CHRISTMAS TREE, by WILLIAM AIKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The holly of life has ripped me to the bone
Last Line: I'm the guy who knocks down %the orange cones along the road
Subject(s): Anger; Christmas


O CHRISTMAS TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O christmas tree, o christmas tree, forever green thy
Last Line: Winter's snow. O christmas tree, o christmas tree forever green thy branches
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


O COME, ALL YE FAITHFUL, by JOHN FRANCIS WADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: O come, all ye faithful, joyful and tri-
Last Line: Venite adoremus dominum
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


O COME, O COME, EMMANUEL, by JOHN MASON NEALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: O come, o come, emmanuel, and
Last Line: Emmanuel shall come thee, o israel
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


O FLOS DE JESSE VIRGULA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM, by BETTY PARASKEVAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Junior kroll got cardboard boxes
Last Line: As a moving event; and they breathed an amen
Subject(s): Christmas


O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM (WITH MUSIC), by PHILLIPS BROOKS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: O come to us, abide with us, %our lord emmanuel!
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols


O LORD JESUS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O lord jesus, who for love of us
Subject(s): Christmas


O'ER THE WORLD, IN SILENCE SLEEPING, by G. C. THOMAS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, by MILES (MYLES) COVERDALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now blessed be thou, christ jesu
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


OF THE EPIPHANY, by JOHN BEAUMONT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair eastern star, that art ordained to run
Subject(s): Christmas


OFFERING, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did mary know when the wise men laid
Subject(s): Christmas


OFFICE PARTY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This holy night in open forum
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


OFFICE PARTY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This holy night in open forum
Last Line: Collapse by the water cooler
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas


OH WOULD THAT I COULD FLY TO YOU, by HARRIET E. CARSKADEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, would that I could fly to you
Last Line: You'll get it christmas day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Love - Nature Of; Nativity, The


OH, BRING NOT GOLD THIS CHRISTMAS NIGHT, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


OLD CHRISTMAS, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now he who knows old christmas
Last Line: Than many a crowned king!
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Childhood; Nativity, The


OLD CHRISTMAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All you that in this house be here
Subject(s): Christmas


OLD CHRISTMAS GREETING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sing hey! Sing hey!
Last Line: In winter snows, %and so let's all be jolly
Variant Title(s): Christmas Greetin
Subject(s): Christmas


OLD CHRISTMAS RETURNED, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All you that to feasting and mirth are inclined
Last Line: "plum-pudding, goose, capon, minced pies, and roast beef"
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


OLD DECEMBER, by BENJAMIN F. LEGGETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: With snowy locks december stands
Subject(s): Christmas


OLD ENGLISH CHRISTMASES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The court celebrations of christmas eve observed
Subject(s): Christmas


OLD FATHER CHRISTMAS IS PASSING BY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


OLD FRENCH CAROL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joseph and mary went their way
Subject(s): Christmas


OLD NICK IN SOREL, by STANDISH HAYES O'GRADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old nick took a fancy, as many men tell
Last Line: Will winter in hell and be here in the summer.
Subject(s): Canada; Christmas; Santa Claus; Weather; Winter; Canadians; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


OLD SANTA CLAUS IS A JOLLY MAN, by M. NORA BOYLAN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


OLD SONG ENDED, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All earthly pomp or beauty to express
Last Line: In what's at hand, the common day which seems %at last the light that yields such heat, such beams
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D.
Subject(s): Christmas


OLD TOM TUSSER'S ADVICE, by ERNEST L. VALENTINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Back 'mid the baltic's sleet and snow
Last Line: "for christmas comes but once a year!"
Subject(s): Advice; Christmas; Knowledge; Wisdom; Nativity, The


OMNES GENTES PLAUDITE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Give us one drink ere we go henne
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


ON A CHRISTMAS NIGHT, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In bethlehem on a christmas night
Last Line: Be happy, happy, everyone %on a christmas night!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas


ON A PALLET OF STRAW, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They did not travel in an airplane
Last Line: They found the lord of all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas


ON CHRISTMAS DAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "dame, get up and bake your pies"
Last Line: On christmas day in the morning
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


ON CHRISTMAS DAY TO MY HEART, by CLEMENT PAMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To day %hark! Heaven sings!
Last Line: On such a ground, musick 'twill be to dy
Subject(s): Christmas


ON CHRISTMAS DAY: HYMN, by CHARLES COTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rise, happy mortals, from your sleep
Last Line: Hosannahs to the heav'nly king.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by ZOE KINCAID BROCKMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When he was gone, and christ mass came to mary
Last Line: To see this night a star and not a cross!
Subject(s): Christmas; Death - Children; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Death - Babies; Virgin Mary


ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by JUDD MORTIMER LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Almost any man can say it
Subject(s): Christmas


ON CHRISTMAS MORN, by RUTH SAWYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shall I tell you who will come
Last Line: Before the lord, new-born?
Subject(s): Christmas


ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: On christmas night
Subject(s): Christmas


ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT, by MYRTA ALBERTSON WELLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The holly glows. The snow flakes fall
Last Line: The holly glows.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


ON CHRISTMAS-DAY, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall dumpish melancholy spoil my joys
Last Line: The minster rings.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


ON HIS RELUCTANCE TO TAKE DOWN THE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A nice. Normal morning
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM HERVEY, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a dismal, and a fearful night
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Christmas


ON THE INFANCY OF OUR SAVIOUR, by FRANCIS QUARLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, blessed virgin, full of heavenly grace
Last Line: The weed not being, I may adore the wearer.
Variant Title(s): The Child Jesus
Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the month, and this the happy morn
Last Line: From out his secret altar touched with hallowed fire.
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY: THE HYMN, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the winter wild
Last Line: Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable.
Variant Title(s): Christmas Hymn;hymn On Morning Of Christ's Nativity
Subject(s): Christmas; Mothers; Nativity, The


ON THE NAVITITY OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rorate coeli desuper!
Last Line: Pro nobis puer natus est!
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Christmas


OPERATION FIND THE LOOT, by BETTY PARASKEVAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Junior kroll noticed, at this time of year
Last Line: But mom knows he'll never find the loot
Subject(s): Christmas


OR ELSE: 5. I AM DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, not that door - never! But
Last Line: May be converted into the future tense %of joy
Subject(s): Christmas


ORGAN SONGS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Babe jesus lay in mary's lap
Last Line: Babe jesus said never a word.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Singing & Singers; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


ORGAN SONGS: A CHRISTMAS CAROL FOR 1862, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The skies are pale, the trees are stiff
Last Line: Will soon be driven out.
Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Despair; Hope; Jesus Christ; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Optimism


ORGAN SONGS: A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, in the steeple the dull bell swinging
Last Line: Straight will arise in sorrow and song!
Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Churches; Nativity, The; Cathedrals


ORGAN SONGS: AN OLD STORY, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the ancient house of ages
Last Line: And a child for king!
Subject(s): Animals; Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The


ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS DAY AND EVERY DAY, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Star high, / baby low
Last Line: Near and far!
Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The


ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS MEDITATION, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He who by a mother's love
Last Line: Binding, binding heart to heart!
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS SONG OF THE OLD CHILDREN, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, for youth to seek the strong
Last Line: Father, take us back with him!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Old Age; Childhood; Nativity, The


ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS, 1873, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas-days are still in store
Last Line: News to men! To god old glory!
Subject(s): Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood


ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS, 1884, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though in my heart no christmas glee
Last Line: Thyself will come!
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


OTHER SHEPHERD, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was the other shepherd
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Christmas


OTTO, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's christmas day. I did not get the presents that I hoped for
Last Line: It's hard enough for him to bear
Subject(s): Christmas


OUR CHRISTMAS TREE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our christmas tree is
Last Line: Christ come into the world
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Nativity, The


OUR CHRISTMAS TREE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our christmas tree is
Last Line: Christ come into the world
Subject(s): Christmas


OUR CHRISTMAS TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do you know
Last Line: And our tree is here at last!
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; December


OUR LADY, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother of god! No lady thou
Last Line: "and the rich he hath sent empty away."
Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos
Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


OUT OF BOUNDS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little boy of heavenly birth
Last Line: Join in to get him back his ball!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


OUT OF THE BLOSSOM SPRANG A THORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


OUT OF THE SHADOW, by MARGARET FAIRLESS BARBER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the shadow of the night
Last Line: The centre of all mystery!
Alternate Author Name(s): Fairless, Michael
Subject(s): Catholics; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Nativity, The; Theology


OUT OF YOUR SLEEP ARISE AND WAKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of your sleep arise and wake
Last Line: That we may there sing nowell. / nowell!
Subject(s): Christmas;redemption; "nativity, The;


OWL, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: More credulous than I, men hold me wise
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Christmas


OX, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like an ark unsettled from its ararat
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Christmas


PAINTERS, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: St. Luke to the painters on christmas day he said
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Christmas; Luke, Saint (1st Century); Paintings And Painters


PANCAKES WITH SANTA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Santa has a bad memory
Last Line: Santa says ain't.
Subject(s): Christmas; Memory; Santa Claus; Wishes; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


PAT-A-PAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Children bring your flute and drum, for the jolly time has
Last Line: Pan, we'll be merry as you play, for a christmas should be gay!
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


PEACE AND GOODWILL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: On christmas day I sit and think
Last Line: And give his sister joy this day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Christmas; Peace; Nativity, The


PEACE OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM CHARLES MARK KENT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mighty wrought thro' the ages
Alternate Author Name(s): Kent, Charles
Subject(s): Christmas


PEACE ON EARTH, by HELEN WIEAND COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shepherds there were who in the fields by night
Last Line: And hails once more as king the prince of peace.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


PEACE ON EARTH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shepherds went their hasty way
Last Line: Peace, peace on earth! The prince of peace is born.'
Variant Title(s): A Christmas Carol;the Shepherds
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Peace; Nativity, The


PEACE ON EARTH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What means this glory round our feet
Last Line: "to-day the prince of peace is born!"
Variant Title(s): A Christmas Carol For The Sunday-school Children Of Church Of The Disciples
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Peace


PEACE ON EARTH, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He took a frayed hat from his head
Last Line: Should have at least another hat.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


PEACE ON EARTH (WITH MUSIC), by GERMANUS I    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A great and mighty wonder
Last Line: And christ shall wield his sceptre %our lord and god for aye
Alternate Author Name(s): Germanus I Of Constantinople
Subject(s): Christmas


PENELOPE'S CHRISTMAS DANCE, by VIRGINIA WOODWARD CLOUD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mistress penelope penwick, she
Last Line: "called by her father, ""my sweet p."
Variant Title(s): The Ballad Of Sweet P
Subject(s): American Revolution; Christmas; Trenton, Battle Of (1776); Nativity, The


PENITENT CONSIDERS ANOTHER COMING OF MARY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If mary came would mary %forgive, as mothers may
Subject(s): Christmas


PENSEES DE NOEL, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the landlord wants the rent
Last Line: Christmas comes but once a year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Christmas; Cynicism; Gratitude; Nativity, The


PEPPERMINT CANDY MARCH, by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The hungry mice would all come out
Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee
Subject(s): Christmas


PERFECT GIFT, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is not the weight of jewel or plate
Subject(s): Christmas


PETER, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can't say %the word, too hard
Last Line: No feet too near -- %quiet
Subject(s): Christmas


PHAEDO, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After midnight mass
Last Line: Sleeping at the foot of the cross
Subject(s): Christmas; Stars; Nativity, The


PHAEDO, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After midnight mass
Last Line: Sleeping at the foot of the cross
Subject(s): Christmas; Stars


PHANTASUS: 1, 8, by ARNO HOLZ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a mountain of sugar-candy
Last Line: Raisins!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


PICKWICK PAPERS, SELS., by CHARLES DICKENS                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 4. THE ADORATION OF THE KINGS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the nativity / which I have already celebrated
Last Line: For profound worship
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 4. THE ADORATION OF THE KINGS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the nativity %which I have already celebrated
Last Line: As a work of art %for profound worship
Subject(s): Christmas


PILGRIMS IN MEXICO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who knocks at my door, so late?
Subject(s): Christmas


PLAY OF 'SAINT GEORGE', by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here come I old father christmas
Last Line: And I wish you a merry christmas, and god bless you all!
Subject(s): Christmas


PO, PO, PO, PO, [I] LOVE BRAWN AND SO DO MO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the beginning of the meat
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


POEMS AT CHRISTMASTIME: 1, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you think of it long enough, and with
Last Line: That you can begin, with banked %and cautious gladness, your petition %to the handmaiden of the lord
Subject(s): Christmas


POEMS AT CHRISTMASTIME: 2, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So this is how the word was made flesh
Last Line: The riddle of the metaphor remains; %the conceiving body conceived in the mind
Subject(s): Christmas


POEMS AT CHRISTMASTIME: 3, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're snowed in. And the vast prairie blurs
Last Line: We could make the word %and it would be read
Subject(s): Christmas


POEMS AT CHRISTMASTIME: 4, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once again the day shifts. The poem you
Last Line: The catalyst %for a joy so fierce it rattles the windows, %dislodges the first shelf of snow from th
Subject(s): Christmas


POEMS AT CHRISTMASTIME: 5, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then a stink of burnt plastic-the hair dryer's
Last Line: Across the glare ice and black %skies, in electric sibilance, silent night
Subject(s): Christmas


POEMS AT CHRISTMASTIME: 6, by LYNNE MCMAHON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From god, our idea of god, the first gift
Last Line: A winter breath as sudden %as the stillness after a cry, the christ child %brought to the breast and
Subject(s): Christmas


POINSETTIA, by HILDEGARD OTT RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have vowed to give your splendor
Last Line: Muted by your grace.
Subject(s): Christmas; Poinsettias; Nativity, The


POLLY'S DISCOVERY, by CHARLOTTE BREWSTER JORDAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Things are not like they used to be
Subject(s): Christmas


POOR HODGE AND THE REV. SANS FOY; CHRISTMAS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor hodge prays hard - the wise man smiles embowered
Last Line: The truth, with thirty pieces for his meed.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


POOR PAPA, by ELSIE DUNCAN YALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: At christmas time, poor papa tries
Subject(s): Christmas


POVERTY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All poor men and humble
Subject(s): Christmas


PRACTISING THE ANTHEM, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A summer wind blows through the open porch
Last Line: My hopes and prayers fulfil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas


PRAISE OF CHRISTMAS, by THOMAS D'URFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: All hail to the days that merit more praise
Last Line: Whereat the young men do the best that they can %to drive the cold winter away
Subject(s): Christmas


PRAISE OF CHRISTMAS (WITH MUSIC), by THOMAS D'URFEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: All hail to the days that merit more praise
Last Line: Whereat the young men do the best that they can %to drive the cold winter away
Subject(s): Christmas


PRAY FOR US THAT WE SAVED WE, PROTOMARTYR STEPHANE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this vale of wretchedness
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


PRAY FOR US TO THE PRINCE OF PEACE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To thee now, christ's dear darling
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


PRAY FOR US TO THE TRINITY, JOHANNES, CHRISTI CARE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou dearest disciple of jesu christ
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


PRAYER, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I crept across the snow
Last Line: It could have been a christmas dream.
Subject(s): Christmas; Dreams; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Nativity, The; Nightmares


PRAYER, by MARTIN LUTHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, dearest jesus, holy child
Variant Title(s): A New Year's Caro
Subject(s): Christmas


PRAYER AFTER CHRISTMAS, by PAT CORRICK HINTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord %it's quiet now
Subject(s): Christmas


PRAYER AT BETHLEHEM, by ANNE P. L. FIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: O pulsing earth with heart athrill
Subject(s): Christmas


PRAYER AT CHRISTMAS, by PAT CORRICK HINTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: God our father
Subject(s): Christmas


PRAYER BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by PAT CORRICK HINTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are eager for your birthday, lord jesus
Subject(s): Christmas


PRAYER FOR CHRISTMAS, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: O god, what curious praise is ours for jesus christ: a red
Last Line: Busy ways and have a lonely carol to sing before the holy %places. Amen
Subject(s): Christmas


PRAYER OF THE DONKEY, by CARMEN BERNOS DE GASZTOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: O god, who made me
Last Line: All danger is driven away
Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Dogs; Donkeys


PRESENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: His smile stresses his broken jaw
Last Line: A christmas present %from the law.
Subject(s): Christmas; Police; Smiles; Violence


PRESENTS, by MARCHETTE CHUTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wanted a rifle for christmas
Last Line: And they've given me mittens again!
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


PRISONER'S BASE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though almighty, far from me
Last Line: In our hearts, a prisoner.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


PROFACE, WELCOME, WELCOME!, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


PROMISE OF CHRISTMAS DAY, by ANNE LINDSAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shops are decked; green wreaths hand
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnard, Lady Anne
Subject(s): Christmas


PROVENCAL NOEL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou that seekest thy delight
Subject(s): Christmas


PSALLITE GAUDENTES, INFANTUM FESTA COLENTES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When god was born of mary free
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


PSALM 98, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joy to the world! The lord is come
Last Line: And wonders, wonders of his love
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols


PSALM 98 (WITH MUSIC), by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joy to the world! The lord is come
Last Line: And wonders, wonders of his love
Subject(s): Christmas


PUER NOBIS NATUS EST, DE VIRGINE MARIA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Be glad, lordings, be ye more and less
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


QUEST OF THE MAGI, by BENJAMIN F. LEGGETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the east the magi came
Subject(s): Christmas


QUESTION, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O, little donkey, you have long shaggy ears
Last Line: Again bear the glorified christmas king?
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas


QUID PETIS, O FILI?, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So laughing in lap laid
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


QUIET-EYED CATTLE, by LESLIE NORRIS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Cattle; Christmas


RABBI'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother, the rabbi's granddaughter, wanted christmas
Last Line: Only red, gold and blue shining for me
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Jewish Families; Jews


RACE IS LIKE A MAN, by JOHN W. VANDERCOOK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Can never fulfill itself completely
Subject(s): Christmas


RED PEPPERS, by A. CONSTANCE SMEDLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whist, whist, whist!
Subject(s): Christmas


REGES DE SABA VENIENT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now is the twelfth day ycome
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


REGINA COELI LETARE, SELS., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gabriel, that angel bright
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Religion


REINDEER REPORT, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chimneys: colder
Last Line: Accomplished- %merry christmas!
Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A.
Subject(s): Christmas


RELIGIOUS MUSINGS; A DESULTORY POEM, WRITTEN ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the time, when most divine to hear
Last Line: Flows to the ray and warbles as it flows.
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


REMOTE RESULTS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are the countless crystals
Last Line: The reasons and results of all.
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Knowledge; Nativity, The


REPORT FOR ISOLDA, by JULIO ORTEGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night, december 24th, 1966
Last Line: Like a new god on this earth
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Christmas; Death; History; Paintings And Painters; War


RETROSPECT, by NANCY MCGOVERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long last turn in the road winding by blue spruce
Last Line: The day after merry christmas
Subject(s): Christmas; Past


RISE UP, SHEPHERD, AND FOLLOW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a star in the east on christmas morning
Last Line: Follow the star of bethlehem, rise up shepherd, and follow
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


RISE UP, SHEPHERD, AND FOLLOW, by UNKNOWN+172    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a star in the east
Last Line: Follow the star of bethlehem, %rise up, shepherd, and follow!
Subject(s): Christmas


ROMAN PRESENTS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because, this month, when napkins, pretty spoons
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Christmas


ROMAN THANK-YOU LETTER, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For new year, postumus, ten years ago
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Christmas


ROSE OF RYSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rose is the fairest flower of all
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


RUINS, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a blank tv screen a tiny begins begins to appear. It has
Last Line: Trees, each leaf an atlas only the dumb heart can read
Subject(s): Christmas; Hearts; Holidays; Love


RUSSIAN SANTA CLAUS, by LIZZIE M. HADLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over the russian snows one day
Subject(s): Christmas


SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE BIRTH OF THE LORD, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The youth in royal purple brings such great joys to you
Last Line: Who will not be a shepherd, when god will be the lamb?
Subject(s): Christmas


SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE STABLE WHERE THE MASTER WAS BORN, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is that home a stable? It is not, golden boy, it is not
Last Line: It is easy to prove [the glow and the smile to come] from your eyes
Subject(s): Christmas


SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE STABLE WHERE THE MASTER WAS BORN, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is that home a stable? It is not, golden boy, it is not
Last Line: It is easy to prove [the glow and the smile to come] from your eyes
Subject(s): Christmas


SACRED EPIGRAM: THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR THEM IN THE INN, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is there no place for him? Do you mean to banish him? Him?
Last Line: There is no place for him without whom there is no place
Subject(s): Christmas


SAFE, by JAMES WALKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, stir the fire
Subject(s): Christmas


SAILOR'S CAROL, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, the snowful sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles
Subject(s): Christmas


SAINT IN DISGUISE, by W. G. COLLINGWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's christmas eve, and the dogs are a-cold
Subject(s): Christmas


SAINT NICHOLAS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Might I, if you can find it, be given
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


SAINT NICHOLAS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Might I, if you can find it, be given
Last Line: Would it not be the most %prized gift that ever was!
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus


SAINT NICHOLAS - HIS ROUNDALAY, by ROBERT LOUIS MUNGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: On christmas eve
Subject(s): Christmas


SAINT NICK, by M. NORA BOYLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When cold the winds blow
Subject(s): Christmas


SAINT STEPHEN WAS A CLERK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Saint stephen was a clerk in king herod's hall
Last Line: Took they then stephen and stoned him in the way, %thereforeis his even on christe's own day
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Legends; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


SALTBUSH BILL ON THE PATRIARCHS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee
Last Line: How jacob bred them strawberry calves three thousand years ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Horses; Nativity, The


SALVE REGINA, MATER MISERICORDIE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O blessedful bird, full of grace
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


SANTA CLAUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He comes in the night! He comes in the night!
Last Line: When you find who the little man is
Subject(s): Christmas;santa Claus; "nativity, The;nicholas, Saint;


SANTA CLAUS, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: A voice from out of the northern sky
Subject(s): Christmas


SANTA CLAUS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jingle of bell and clattering hoof
Last Line: Hid under the quaint disguise.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


SANTA CLAUS, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each year when the trees turn white
Last Line: And high-booted forces his way into everybody's heart
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus


SANTA CLAUS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Halt! Who goes there? The sentry's call
Last Line: Without the countersign.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Soldiers; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


SANTA CLAUS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A jolly old fellow
Subject(s): Christmas


SANTA CLAUS (1), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hast thou, in fancy, trodden where lie
Last Line: There dwells thy loved santa claus'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus


SANTA CLAUS (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On wool-soft feet he peeps and creeps
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus


SANTA CLAUS IN HOLLAND, by HELEN M. RICHARDSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now, children, listen to my tale
Subject(s): Christmas


SANTA CLAUS IN THE BUSH, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It chanced out back at the christmas time
Last Line: But the dour guidwife gat nane.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Christmas; Horses; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


SANTA CLAUS IS COMING - WE SHALL WECOME HIM WITH GLEE, by MAUD L. BETTS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


SANTA CLAUS' VISIT, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: With a click and a clack
Subject(s): Christmas


SANTA'S HELPERS, by M. NORA BOYLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fairies and brownies on last christmas-tide
Subject(s): Christmas


SANTA'S PRESENTS FO' DE GOOD, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, chil'un, en I'll tale yo'
Last Line: En he wants hit undahstood.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


SANTY ISN'T SANTY CLAUS, by ELIZABETH PORTER KESSLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Maybe you think santy claus
Last Line: He's just a lot of men.
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


SAVIOR MUST HAVE BEEN A DOCILE GENTLEMAN, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A rugged billion miles
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1487; Poem: 153
Subject(s): Christmas


SERY, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With wild surprise
Subject(s): Christmas


SEVEN JOYS OF MARY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first good joy that mary had, it was the joy of
Last Line: Ascending into heaven, good lord
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


SHALL I TO THE BYRE GO DOWN, by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


SHALL I, MOTHER, SHALL I, SHALL I DO SO?, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was born in a stall
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


SHE MAY BE CALLED A SOVEREIGN LADY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


SHEEP, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My wool in clumps like moss
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Christmas


SHEPHERD BOYS, by NICHOLAS SABOLY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


SHEPHERD WHO STAYED, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My master bade me watch the flock by night
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas


SHEPHERD'S DOG, by LESLIE NORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out on the windy hill
Subject(s): Christmas


SHEPHERD'S HYMN, SELS., by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To thee meek majesty, soft king
Subject(s): Christmas


SHEPHERD'S SONG AT CHRISTMAS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look there at the star!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Negroes; American Blacks; Nativity, The


SHEPHERD'S SONG AT CHRISTMAS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look there at the star!
Last Line: I will bring my heart %to the manger
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas


SHEPHERD'S TALE, by RAOUL PONCHON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Women, you'll never credit what
Subject(s): Christmas


SHEPHERDS IN JUDEA, by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the shepherds in judea %they are pacing to and fro
Subject(s): Christmas


SHEPHERDS [OR, THE SHEPHERD'S SONG], by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O than the fairest day, thrice fairer night!
Last Line: Befoe the babe the shepherds bow'd their knees, %and springs ran nectar, honey dropped from the tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Variant Title(s): For The Nativity Of Our Lor
Subject(s): Christmas


SHEPHERDS' CAROL, by NORMAN NICHOLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three practical farmers from back of the dale
Subject(s): Christmas


SHEPHERDS, REJOICE, LIFT UP YOUR EYES, by ISAAC WATTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


SHOE OR STOCKING, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In holland, children set their shoes
Subject(s): Christmas


SHORT CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Santa claus! Santa claus!
Subject(s): Christmas; Pantomime


SHOUT FOR CHRISTMAS, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christmas is bells, ole!
Last Line: Spangles. We praise our god. %amen!
Subject(s): Christmas


SIGNS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's 'be a good boy, willie'
Last Line: When they know that good old santa has begun to pack his sleigh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


SIGNS OF CHRISTMAS, by EDWIN LEES    Poem Source                    
First Line: When on the barn's thatch'd roof is seen
Subject(s): Christmas


SIGNS OF THE SEASON IN THE KITCHEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cooks shall be busied, by day and by night
Subject(s): Christmas


SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT, by FRANZ GRUBER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


SIMEON MEDITATING, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: So long, o lord, I've waited for this day
Last Line: I'm waiting, lord, to hear thy last clear call!
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


SING FOR JOY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sing for joy to the lord, all the earth
Subject(s): Christmas


SING HEY! SING HEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And so let's all be jolly
Subject(s): Christmas;friendship; "nativity, The;


SING WE ALL, FOR TIME IT IS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For his love that bought us all dear
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


SING WE TO THIS MERRY COMPANY, REGINA CELI, LETARE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O queen of heaven, thou sittest in thy see
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


SING WE WITH MIRTH, JOY AND SOLACE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Glorious god had great pity
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


SING, SING FOR CHRISTMAS, by J. H. EGAR    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 47, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: January cold desolate
Last Line: In bleak december.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): The Months
Subject(s): Christmas; Cold; Nativity, The


SINGE WE, SINGE WE, REGINA CELI, LETARE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Holy maiden, blessed thou be
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


SINGING STARS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What sawest thou, orion, thou hunter of the star-lands
Last Line: "and the young child in the manger, and the time of bondage ended."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just this one day in all the year
Last Line: The skeleton taps on the door
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Christmas; Skeletons


SKEPTIC CHRISTMAS, by JULES LAFORGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Noel! Noel? I hear the bells in the night
Last Line: Brings poignant rumor of a far festivity.
Subject(s): Christmas; Doubt; Nativity, The; Skepticism


SLEEP, HOLY BABE, by EDWARD CASWALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, holy babe, upon thy mother's breast
Last Line: That I thereby may live.
Variant Title(s): To The Infant Jesus Aslee
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


SLEET, by NORMAN MACCAIG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first snow was sleet. It swished heavily
Subject(s): Christmas


SLUMBER-SONGS OF THE MADONNA, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dante saw the great white rose
Last Line: You are mine, all mine!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


SLY SANTA CLAUS, by C. S. STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the house was asleep
Subject(s): Christmas


SNOW BRIGADE, by MARIAN LODER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are the jolly snow brigade
Subject(s): Christmas


SNOWDROPS, by GEORGE MACBETH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The first day of this month I saw
Subject(s): Christmas


SNOWFLAKES, by CLIVE SANSOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: And did you know
Subject(s): Christmas


SON OF GOD IS MAN BECOME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A marvelous thing I have mused in my own mind
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


SONG, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do the bells of christmas ring?
Variant Title(s): Crhistmas Song
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


SONG, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do the bells of christmas ring?
Last Line: Therefore bells for christmas ring, %therefore little children sing
Variant Title(s): Crhistmas Son
Subject(s): Christmas


SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When rosemary and bays, the poet's crown
Subject(s): Christmas


SONG BEWAILING CHRISTMAS, SO MUCH DECAYED IN ENGLAND, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christmas is my name, far have I gone, have I gone, have I gone without regard
Last Line: I'll away, I'll away, I'll away, I'll no longer stay
Subject(s): Christmas


SONG FOR THE SEASON, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The kings to the stable
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Christmas


SONG FROM A CHRISTMAS COMEDIETTA, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is a fool who thinks he loves in vain
Last Line: Were they without us.
Subject(s): Christmas; Love; Nativity, The


SONG OF A SHEPHERD BOY AT BETHLEHEM, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, thou little child of mary
Last Line: Very high for all to see: %smilest thou?
Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas


SONG OF CHRISTMAS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The christmas moon shines clear and bright
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Christmas


SONG OF THE ANGELS AT THE NATIVITY, by NAHUM TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While shepherds watched their flocks by night
Last Line: "begin, and never cease!"
Variant Title(s): Christmas
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Nativity, The


SONG OF THE ANGELS AT THE NATIVITY (WITH MUSIC), by NAHUM TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night
Last Line: And this shall be the sign: %and in a manger laid
Subject(s): Christmas


SONG OF THE CHRISTMAS TREES, by BLANCHE ELIZABETH WADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sleep, thou little child of mary
Subject(s): Christmas


SONG OF THE DOVE, by FREDRIKA BREMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There sitteth a dove, so white and fair
Last Line: That sits on the lily-spray.
Variant Title(s): Swedish Mother's Lullany [or, Hymn]
Subject(s): Christmas; Mothers; Nativity, The


SONG OF THREE KINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three kings went forth to greet a king
Last Line: (o long ago and far!)
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Courts & Courtiers; Gifts & Giving; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nativity, The


SONG ON THE IVY AND THE HOLLY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Holly stands in the hall, fair to behold
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


SONG UPON, NOW MUST I SING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under a tree, in sporting me
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


SONG: BELLS ACROSS THE SNOW, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O christmas, merry christmas
Last Line: "to the ""bells across the snow."
Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Nativity, The


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 5. NOEL, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To awake at dawn and remember new-dropt lambs
Last Line: "o lamb which takest away the sin of the world."
Subject(s): Christmas; Fear; Life; Religion; Sleep; Nativity, The; Theology


SONNET. CHRISTIANITY, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, in the east a star! The orient shade
Last Line: Still brightening kindles faith, lo, in the east a star!
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


SONNET: 13, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee
Last Line: Or taste the old october brown and bright.
Variant Title(s): Winter
Subject(s): Christmas; Old Age; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Winter; Nativity, The


SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS: 1, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the day his hour of life draws near
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS: 1, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the day his hour of life draws near
Last Line: Ring out the silence I am nourished by
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion


SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS: 2, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, christ, I love you rings to the wild sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Variant Title(s): "ah Christ, I Love You Rings To The Wild Sky"";
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


SONNETS AT CHRISTMAS: 2, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, christ, I love you rings to the wild sky
Last Line: In late december before the fire's daze %punished by crimes of which I would be quit
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Variant Title(s): Ah Christ, I Love You Rings To The Wild Sk
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion


SONNETS FOR CHRISTMAS: 1, by KEMP MALONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now winter falls on land and sea, and now
Last Line: But broods above god's creatures in god's sight.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


SONNETS FOR CHRISTMAS: 2, by KEMP MALONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O marvel not, ye shepherds of the night
Last Line: Jesus is born today of mary mild.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 1. BEAST, PEACH.., by MARVIN BELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He couldn't say it or write it or sign it or give it a name
Last Line: His small star would someday pass close to him but not yet.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Religion; Spirituality; Nativity, The; Theology


SPEAKIN' O' CHRISTMAS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Breezes blowin' middlin' brisk
Last Line: Christmas like it used to be!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


SPIDER, by NORMA FARBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sing no sound. I spin instead
Last Line: Listen! My web is what you hear
Subject(s): Christmas


SPIRIT SPEAKING, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As you are still pursuing it
Last Line: A grief and a malevolence %the letter will remain
Subject(s): Christmas


ST. PAUL'S CHRISTMAS BELLS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye paltry petty tocsins of the town
Last Line: Heard not in dread, but joy of christmastide.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Nativity, The


ST. STEPHEN'S DAY, by PATRIC DICKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yesterday the gentle
Subject(s): Christmas; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.)


STABAT MATER SPECIOSA, by JACOPONE DA TODI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stood the lovely mother smiling
Last Line: To the vision of his face!
Alternate Author Name(s): Jacopo Dei Benedeti; Bebedetti, Jacopo
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


STABLE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When midnight came
Last Line: And the upset stable was like %a forest in the wind
Subject(s): Christmas


STABLE CAT, by LESLIE NORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm a stable cat, a working cat
Subject(s): Christmas


STAR, by IDA NORTON MUNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know not through what trackless space of night
Subject(s): Christmas


STAR BEARER, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were seven angels erst that spanned
Subject(s): Christmas


STAR OF BETHLEHEM, by FLORENCE VAN CLEVE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O star that led the wise men from the east
Last Line: O star that led the wise men from the east!
Subject(s): Christmas; Stars; Nativity, The


STAR OF MY HEART, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Star of my heart, I follow from afar
Last Line: And wake, no more to sin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


STAR OF THE EAST, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Unto our king in bethlehem.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


STAR OF THE EAST, by MARY B. SLEIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beautiful star, that dawned in the orient
Subject(s): Christmas


STAR OF THE EAST, WHOSE BEACON LIGHT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


STAR OF WONDER, STAR OF LIGHT, by BARBARA CROOKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's christmas, the year before the accident, when the
Last Line: Their arms full of stars
Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Stars


STARLIGHT, by MILDRED JONES KEEFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the starlight christ was born
Subject(s): Christmas


STILL WILL THE CHRISTMAS BELLS BE SWEET, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Through all the years, supreme, divine
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Christmas


STOCKING SONG ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome christmas! Heel and toe
Subject(s): Christmas


STOCKINGS IN THE FARM-HOUSE CHIMNEY, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy, believe, this christmas eve
Last Line: Evermore hang the stocking out!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


STORY OF THE CHRIST-CHILD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Would the muses me inspire
Last Line: In the bible. Read it there!
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


STORY OF THE SHEPHERD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was the very noon of night; the stars above the fold
Subject(s): Christmas


SUB-MISTLETOE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We two stood near
Last Line: "and now, by jove, I've done it!"
Subject(s): Christmas;mistletoe; "nativity, The;


SUMMER CHRISTMAS IN AUSTRALIA, by DOUGLAS BROOKE WHEELTON SLADEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The christmas dinner was at two
Subject(s): Christmas


SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All this night shrill chanticleer
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


SWEDISH ANGEL, by WINFIELD TOWNLEY SCOTT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A million butterflies rose up from south america
Last Line: For a whole minute against all the dark, as if I were a child
Subject(s): Christmas


TABLE, by ANN TURNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Careful with those dishes
Last Line: Inside my polished wood
Subject(s): Christmas


TAKING DOWN, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or finding in the air's subtractive touch %that each was thirsty and completely recognized
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Religion


TANGMALANGALOO, by P. J. HARTIGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bishop sat in lordly state and purple cap sublime
Last Line: "it's the day before the races out at tangmalangaloo."
Alternate Author Name(s): O'brien, John+(2)
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


TE LAUDAMUS, TE DOMINUM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O blessed god in trinity
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


TEEN ANGELS, by DEBORAH GORLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The holy family gathers on a desert mountain top
Last Line: Sob clots, the donkey and the oxen, though half-painted, %braying with big teeth
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Paintings And Painters; Piero Della Francesca (1420-1492)


TELL FORTH HIS FAME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Christ is born! Tell forth his fame
Last Line: For he hath triumphed gloriously!
Subject(s): Christmas;jesus Christ; "nativity, The;


THANK WE NOW THE LORD OF HEAVEN, by HENRY WARBURTON HAWKES    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


THANK YOU FOR OUR CHRISTMAS TREE, by MILDRED TENGBOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear god, thank you for our christmas tree
Subject(s): Christmas


THANKS FOR JESUS, by RONALD (RON) ALLAN KLUG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes, god, I can feel you are near me
Subject(s): Christmas


THAT GRAY, COLD CHRISTMAS DAY (DECEMBER 25, 1620), by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They sailed away from provincetown bay
Last Line: That gray, cold christmas day?
Subject(s): Christmas; Pilgrim Fathers; Nativity, The


THAT HOLY THING, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They all were looking for a king
Last Line: Yea, every bygone prayer.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE AFTERGLOW, by MARIANNE CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Enchanting vision stirred a weary heart
Last Line: Our yuletide gift in home-world every year.
Subject(s): Christmas; December; Peace; Nativity, The


THE ANGEL THAT MISSED CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Along the hills the echoes died away
Last Line: And the world's christ was ready for his cross.
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Nativity, The


THE ANGEL'S CHRISTMAS QUEST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where have ye laid my lord?
Last Line: Swathing the limbs of love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Nativity, The


THE ANGEL'S SONG; CAROL, by EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It came upon the midnight clear
Last Line: Which now the angels sing
Variant Title(s): Peace On Earth
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE ANGELS, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Run, shepherds, run where bethlehem blest appears
Last Line: And cope of stars reëchoéd the same.
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Variant Title(s): For The Nativity Of Our Lord
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Nativity, The


THE APPROACH OF CHRISTMAS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a little chap at our house that is being mighty good
Last Line: There's a mighty happy father sitting at the table, too.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE ARGONAUTS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To bethlehem, to bethlehem
Last Line: The spotless lamb of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Christmas; Nativity, The


THE ASS SPEAKS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the little ass of christ
Last Line: The whip, for jesus christ his sake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Christmas; Duty; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religion; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary; Theology


THE AUTHOR OF THE JESUS PAPERS SPEAKS, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my dream
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Women; Nativity, The


THE BALLAD OF CHRISTMAS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was about the deep of night
Last Line: And judas one of three.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Christmas; Ghosts; Jesus Christ - Legends; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Pilate, Pontius; Supernatural; Nativity, The


THE BALLAD OF THE SCULLION MAID, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the little scullion maid
Last Line: In the inn at bethlehem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Nativity, The


THE BEST TREE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Karl lay on the floor by the firelight bright
Last Line: That blossoms at christmastide
Subject(s): Christmas;christmas Trees;gifts & Giving;pine Trees;trees; "nativity, The;


THE BIRTH, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a legend that the love of god
Last Line: A rain of spirit and a dew of song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Miracles; Stars; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


THE BIRTH SONG OF CHRIST, by EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm on the listening ear of night / come heaven's melodious strains
Last Line: Breaks the first christmas morn.
Variant Title(s): Christmas Hymn;christmas Song;the Glorious Song;the Glorious Song Of Old;the Nativity
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


THE BOAR'S HEAD CAROL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The boar's head in hand bear I
Last Line: Reddens laudes domino
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


THE BOY SHEPHERD'S SMILE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind rose cold under our robes, and straw blew loose
Last Line: For this we shivered in adoration. We bore the cold.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Dolls; Imagination; Toys; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fancy


THE BUILDER, by WILLARD WATTLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Smoothing a cypress beam
Last Line: "heaven,"" he said."
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Carpenters; Christmas; Heaven; Nativity, The; Paradise


THE BURIAL IN THE SNOW, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How well do I remember
Last Line: Around that dear hearth stone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE BURNING BABE, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow
Last Line: That it was christmas day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


THE CANTERBURY TALES: PROLOGUE TO SECOND NUN'S TALE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ministre and the norice unto vices
Last Line: Now have I yow declared what she highte.
Subject(s): Christmas; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


THE CAROL OF THE FIR TREE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Quoth the fir-tree, 'orange and vine'
Last Line: In your own soul, this 'gloria.'
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Fir Trees; Trees


THE CHERRY TREE CAROL (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Joseph was an old man
Last Line: To see the uprising / of the heavenly king
Subject(s): Christmas;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "nativity, The;virgin Mary;


THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night it was jewelled
Last Line: A rosy morn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Flowers; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Roses; Childhood; Nativity, The; Paradise


THE CHRIST CHILD, by GRACE E. WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A star shone in the east
Last Line: With mary kneeling at his feet.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary And Martha (bible); Stars; Wishes; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The


THE CHRIST OF THE SNOWS; A NORWEGIAN LEGEND, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Set wine on the table / and bread on the plate
Last Line: Our christ of the snow.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Legends, Norwegian; Nativity, The


THE CHRIST-STAR HAS RISEN, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twilight and christmas eve
Last Line: The christ-star has risen, it never will set!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS ANGELS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again, as of old, the shadows fold, and the
Last Line: Children yet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Love; Worship; Childhood; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS BABE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So small that lesser lowliness
Last Line: Love's majesty must look below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS BABE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All in the night when sleeping
Last Line: And he comes by no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Christmas; Infants; Childhood; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS BALL; SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Scintillant stars in the sky's blue height
Last Line: And the dancers meet at the christmas ball.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Gifts & Giving; Happiness; Holidays; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Joy; Delight; Nicholas, Saint


THE CHRISTMAS CHILD, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We see not god, yet while we grope
Last Line: Our life!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Holidays; Jerusalem; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Childhood; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS FIR, by EDITH BORDEN GREER    Poem Text                    
First Line: You grew in sun and rain
Last Line: As a symbol of beauty.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr smiggs was a gentleman
Last Line: "aye, and pick it to the bone."
Subject(s): Birds; Christmas; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Geese; Holidays; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS HOLLY, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The holly! The holly! Oh, twine it with bay
Last Line: Then sing to the holly, &c.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holly; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS HOUR, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the hour my heart has waited for
Last Line: "peace and good-will dwell in the world again!"
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS LONG AGO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, sing a hale heigh-ho
Last Line: Gusts of kisses and surprise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Kisses; Past; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS OF 1888, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Low in the east, against a white, cold dawn
Last Line: Peace, and good-will to men!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS PIE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, guard this night the christmas pie
Last Line: To watch it.
Variant Title(s): Christmas Eve - Another Ceremony;christmasse-eve, Another Ceremonie
Subject(s): Christmas; Food & Eating; Pies; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS QUEST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little, lonely shepherd lad
Last Line: "he will find—a child!"
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Childhood; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS RADIO, by MARY P. DENNY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard the radio proclaim / the wonder of a
Last Line: The glory of a matchless name.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Radio; Singing & Singers; Sound; Songs


THE CHRISTMAS RIFLE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the spine of the ridge
Last Line: The weight of his hand comes down on my shoulder.
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Rifles; Hunters


THE CHRISTMAS ROSE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A star-eyed child of judah's line
Last Line: Then bore the babe the christmas rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Roses; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS SHEAF, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, goodwife, bring your precious hoard
Last Line: Is alive with happy birds!
Subject(s): Birds; Christmas; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS SPECTRUM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven points hath the christmas star
Last Line: Yet they shine as one, and the star is white.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: About the end of august, one hot day
Last Line: His voice came back, and I—awoke, of course.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


THE CHRISTMAS STAR, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shine gently down, o radiant star
Last Line: In every little baby's birth.
Subject(s): Birth; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


THE CHRISTMAS SYMBOL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "only a manger, cold and bare"
Last Line: And king of earth and heaven
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


THE CHRISTMAS TREE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Put out the lights now!
Last Line: If it lives or dies now
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Environment; Nativity, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


THE CHRISTMAS TREE, by EDWARD SHILLITO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If christ could ever be born again
Last Line: "wherever a wound is found."
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


THE CHRISTMAS TREE OF THE ANGELS, by ANGELA MORGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you seen god's christmas tree in the sky
Last Line: To this tree of god in paradise?
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas Trees; Gifts & Giving; Heaven; Magic; Paradise


THE COMMON PROBLEM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall I give this christmas?
Last Line: "what shall I give this christmas?"" (incidentally, ""what shall I get?"")"
Subject(s): Christmas Gifts


THE CONSECRATION OF THE COMMON WAY, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills that had been lone and lean
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE COVENTRY CAROL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "lully, lullay, thou little tiny child"
Last Line: "neither say nor sing / by by, lully lullay!"
Subject(s): Christmas Carols;herod The Great (73-4 B.c.)


THE COWBOYS' CHRISTMAS BALL, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Way out in western texas where the clear fork waters flow
Last Line: "that lively-gaited sworray — ""the cowboys' christmas ball."
Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry
Subject(s): Christmas; Cowboys; Dancing & Dancers; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Nativity, The; Southwest; Pacific States


THE CRAB CACTUS BLOOMS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today a miracle was swiftly wrought
Last Line: "a ""christmas carol,"" bursting into bloom!"
Subject(s): Cactus; Christmas Carols; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Leaves; Nature


THE CROSS OF THE DUMB; A CHRISTMAS ON IONA, LONG, LONG AGO, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One eve, when st. Columba strode
Last Line: Who on that day was glad and proud!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Angels; Christmas; Columba, Saint (521-597); Generosity; Guests; Iona, Scotland; Miracles; Salvation; Strangers; Nativity, The; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; Visiting


THE CRYSTAL PALACE BAND OF HOPE CHOIR, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory shone o'er bethlehem's plains
Last Line: "peace on earth, good will to men."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Hope; Singing & Singers; Nativity, The; Optimism; Songs


THE CZAR'S LAST CHRISTMAS LETTER: A BARN IN THE URALS, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You were never told, mother, how old illya was drunk
Last Line: And I am nicholas.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Letters; Mothers & Sons; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918); Parents; World War I; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; First World War


THE DAVENTRY WONDER; SHOWING HOW FARMER B-LL'S BEES ISSUED ..., by AGRICOLA [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: "now cynthia shone serene, and every star"
Last Line: "let learned macclesfield say what he will, / spite of new style, we'll keep old christmas still"
Alternate Author Name(s): Agricola
Subject(s): Bees;christmas;farm Life;holidays;insects; "beekeeping;nativity, The;agriculture;farmers;bugs;


THE DESIRE FOR SPACE TRAVEL IS A METAPHOR FOR ESCAPE, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve, and how deliciously soft-shell crab
Subject(s): Homecoming; Food & Eating; Love - Erotic; Christmas; Nativity, The


THE DISAPPOINTED CAROL SINGERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, must we not sing our christmas hymn
Last Line: Comes but once a year, you know.
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


THE DUTCH PATROL, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When christmas-eve is ended
Last Line: Proclaim 'tis christmas day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Memorial Day; Netherlands; New York City - Dutch Period; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Nativity, The; Declaration Day; Holland; Dutch People


THE EAVESDROPPER, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If little boys don't hurry off to bed
Last Line: Would take away the things he left last year!
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Faith; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Belief; Creed; Nicholas, Saint


THE END OF THE PLAY, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The play is done; the curtain drops
Last Line: To men of gentle will.
Variant Title(s): Be Each A Gentleman
Subject(s): Adversity; Christmas; Worship; Nativity, The


THE EXPECTATION, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the apple-trees with their red load
Last Line: The earth will bear her longed-for perfect fruit.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pregnancy; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


THE FACE AT THE WINDOW, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We had gone down at christmas, where our host
Last Line: "only the fact could make my story true."
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Christmas; Fathers; Ghosts; Story-telling; Supernatural; Nativity, The


THE FIR TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard a mother fir tree say
Last Line: Our shining christmas tree.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; December


THE FIRST CHRISTMAS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hang up the baby's stocking
Last Line: "just cram her stocking with goodies, / from the top clean down to the toe"
Variant Title(s): The Baby's Stocking
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


THE FIRST CHRISTMAS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: O mary, drooping by the door
Last Line: Before thy son, the king.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


THE FIRST NOWELL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The first nowell the angel did say
Last Line: Born is the king of israel
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


THE FIRST WAITS; A MEDITATION FOR ALL, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So, christmas is here again!
Last Line: And we live forevermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE FOOLISH FIR-TREE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little fir grew in the midst of the wood
Last Line: The very best kind of a christmas tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Nativity, The


THE FORFEITURE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who first beneath the mistletoe
Last Line: Make way for happier sons of men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE FRIENDLY BEASTS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "jesus our brother, strong and good"
Last Line: The gift he gave to immanuel
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


THE GOLDEN LEGEND: THE PARABLE OF ST. CHRISTOPHER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To a king's court a giant came
Last Line: As to the heathen men.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Childhood; Nativity, The


THE GREATEST WONDER, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To spread the azure canopy of heaven
Last Line: That angels stand amazed to think on it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Subject(s): Christmas; Earth; Heaven; Nativity, The; World; Paradise


THE HALLOWED HOUR, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: No witch hath power to charm the hour
Last Line: Hallelujah!
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


THE HAND-BELL RINGERS; OR WITHIN AND WITHOUT, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night the ringers came over the moor
Last Line: And men I would study without.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Nativity, The


THE HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS DAY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sybil, my little one, come away
Last Line: To have the happiest christmas day!
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


THE HARD TIMES IN ELFLAND; A STORY OF CHRISTMAS EVE, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange that the termagant winds should scold
Last Line: Baltimore, december, 1877.
Subject(s): Christmas; Reindeer; Nativity, The


THE HOLLY AND THE IVY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Sweet singing in the choir
Subject(s): Christmas;holidays;ivy; "nativity, The;


THE HOLLY ON THE WALL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Play, little children, one and all
Last Line: For holly, holly on the wall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holly; Play; Nativity, The


THE HOLLY THORNS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, love is the soul of christmas
Last Line: Where christmas is one of tears.
Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Happiness; Holly; Love; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


THE HOLY INNOCENTS, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, the hay-bells tinkle as the cart
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE HOLY STAR, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As shadows cast by cloud and sun
Last Line: To fill the world with light.
Variant Title(s): Christmas;the Star Of Bethlehem
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


THE HOUSE OF CHRISTMAS, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There fared a mother driven forth
Last Line: And all men are at home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fell the snow on the festival's vigil
Last Line: I must still pray the same -- still the same.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE INN THAT MISSED ITS CHANCE (THE LANDLORD SPEAKS, AD. 28), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What could be done? The inn was full of folks!
Last Line: The birthplace of messiah, -- had I known!
Subject(s): Christmas; Hotels; Nativity, The; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


THE KINGS OF THE EAST, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kings of the east are riding
Last Line: The child-face of a star.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Magi; Nativity, The


THE KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by CORINNE ROCKWELL SWAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The knight, before christmas, observed to his spouse
Last Line: "merry christmas to all, and to all a good knight!'"
Subject(s): Christmas; Gratuities; Nativity, The; Tips


THE LAMB-CHILD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When christ the babe was born
Last Line: And baby-lamb he blessed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE LAME SHEPHERD, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slowly I followed on
Last Line: Kissing and kneeling.
Subject(s): Christmas; Healing; Jesus Christ; Miracles; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Nativity, The; Cures


THE LEAST OF CAROLS, by SOPHIE JEWETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Loveliest dawn of gold and rose
Last Line: "exceedingly."
Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College


THE LETTER MAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My santa claus goes every day
Last Line: The wishes in his pack.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; December; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


THE LIGHT OF BETHLEHEM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis christmas night! The snow
Last Line: The light of bethlehem!
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Nativity, The


THE LITANY OF THE DARK PEOPLE, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our flesh that was a battle-ground
Last Line: Are merged in paradise.
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE LITTLE ONES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The little ones are put in bed
Last Line: We must have sinned,' sobbed emily.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE LITTLE QUESTIONER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Babe she's so always
Last Line: "what does he do?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


THE LITTLE TOWN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little town, o little town
Last Line: But follow still the star!
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


THE LOVING-CUP, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis the time of year for the loving-cup
Last Line: Where the babe and mary are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Children; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Childhood; Nativity, The


THE LUXOR NATIVITY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A full-blown, modern, speculative sage
Last Line: Of thy great dogmas - evermore in vain.
Subject(s): Amenhotep Iii (1417-1379 B.c.); Christmas; Luxor, Egypt; Nativity, The


THE MADONNA AND CHILD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This endris night
Last Line: "and I shall sing / 'lullay, by, by, lullay'"
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


THE MAGI, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye
Last Line: The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Magi; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE MAHOGANY TREE, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas is here
Last Line: Round the old tree!
Subject(s): Christmas; Friendship; Trees; Nativity, The


THE MAID-SERVANT AT THE INN, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's queer, she said; I see the light
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


THE MARGRAVE'S BIRTHNIGHT, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from many a sheeted valley
Last Line: Black bread into white.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE MASQUE OF CHRISTMAS, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now god preserve, as you well do deserve
Last Line: O, but log was too heavy to dance it.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE MESSAGE OF THE CHRISTMAS BELLS, by MARY YETTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of all the days of all the year
Last Line: Christ is born -- today!
Subject(s): Bells; Christmas; Nativity, The


THE MILLENNIUM, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the basement
Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The; Relatives


THE MOTHER OF GOD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE MUNICIPAL CHRISTMAS TREE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It shines a tree of fairy land
Last Line: Shall bring to each his honest share.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


THE MYSTIC'S CHRISTMAS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All hail!' the bells of christmas rang
Last Line: "feels in his heart the lord christ born!"
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE NATIVITY, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing the birth was born tonight
Last Line: Can man forget this story?
Variant Title(s): A Hymn On The Nativity Of My Saviour;a Hymn For The The Nativity Of My Savior
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE NATIVITY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down kedron's vale the wind blows chill
Last Line: To find the manger-cradled king.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the father is his daughter's son
Last Line: Whose taste, doth us from beasts to men renew.
Variant Title(s): Parem Parit Filia
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE NEW CHRISTMAS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the good old days, in the spacious days, when the christmas
Last Line: As the snow a man shakes from his shoulders as he comes to his own front gate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Christmas; Earth; Snow; Socialism; Nativity, The; World


THE OLD CARRIER, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Patient toiler on the road
Last Line: To and from menaggio.
Subject(s): Aging; Bells; Christmas; Death; Labor & Laborers; Nativity, The; Dead, The; Work; Workers


THE OLD YEAR, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old year's gone away
Last Line: Left the old year lost to all.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The


THE OXEN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve, and twelve of the clock
Last Line: Hoping it might be so.
Subject(s): Animals; Christianity; Christmas; Mythology; Oxen; Nativity, The


THE PAPHIAN BALL; ANOTHER CHRISTMAS EXPERIENCE OF THE MELLSTOCK QUIRE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We went our christmas rounds once more
Last Line: I give it for what it may be worth.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE PAUPER'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Full of drink and full of meat
Last Line: "christmas comes but once a year!"
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Poverty


THE PILGRIM; A CHRISTMAS LEGEND FOR CHILDREN, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shades of night were brooding
Last Line: In his heart that christmas night.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE PRISONERS; CHRISTMAS, 1869, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Has not vengeance been sated at last?
Last Line: "how long! Oh, our lord god, how long?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Prisons & Prisoners; Nativity, The


THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF J.L. MCDOWELL, M.D. (MOUNTAIN DOCTOR), 1970, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of its plain brown
Subject(s): Christmas; Physicians; Nativity, The; Doctors


THE QUEEN OF THE YEAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When suns are low, and nights are long
Last Line: With the christ-child in her arms.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


THE RED CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM H. DRAPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O take away the mistletoe
Last Line: Twined with the holly berry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Draper, W. H.
Subject(s): Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War


THE REMINDER, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While I watch the christmas blaze
Last Line: Do you make me notice you!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE SACRILEGIOUS CAROLLERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Full ill shall it be in churchyard to dance
Last Line: "of the priest, if he bid ye cease, be still!"
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


THE SAINT OF MANY NAMES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When we write a note to him
Last Line: After all, is he!
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


THE SCEPTIC, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father christmas passed away
Last Line: My god or santa claus.
Subject(s): Christmas; Doubt; God; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Skepticism; Nicholas, Saint


THE SCOTTISH CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In truth it was a solemn show
Last Line: Have vanish'd with the long ago!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE SEA-SWALLOWS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This fell when christmas lights were done
Last Line: "the ways are sair fra' the till to the tyne."
Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Roses; Sea; Nativity, The; Ocean


THE SETTLER'S CHRISTMAS EVE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a patch of clearing, scarcely more
Last Line: At the settler's hearth that christmas eve.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE SHEPHERD SPEAKS, by JOHN ERSKINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the midnight sky a great dawn broke
Last Line: We started through the fields to find the child.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: DECEMBER, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glad christmas comes, and every hearth
Last Line: "to drink the christmas eve's ""good bye."
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; December; Toys; Nativity, The


THE SHEPHERD'S SONG: A CAROL OR HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS, by EDMUND BOLTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet music, sweeter far
Last Line: Clouded in flesh, yet, shepherds, sit we here?
Variant Title(s): The Shepherd's Carol
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


THE SHEPHERDS, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet, harmless lives! (on whose holy leisure
Last Line: Their day was dark and dim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE SILKEN SHOE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The firelight danced and wavered
Last Line: "the sheen of a silken shoe."
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


THE SNOWFLAKES, by J. A. HARM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soft, starry, crystal snow-flakes
Last Line: All the earth on christmas day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Snow; Winter; Nativity, The


THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDS, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was near the first cock-crowing
Last Line: Lord of peoples, light of nations, elder brother, tender friend.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Nativity, The


THE SONG OF THE WOMEN; A WEALDEN TRIO, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When ye've got a child 'ats whist for want of food
Last Line: Singin' of the shepherds on that morn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Jesus Christ; Women; Nativity, The


THE SPIRIT SPEAKING, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As you are still pursuing it
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE STARS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars are lighted candles
Last Line: He gets a present, as he should.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


THE STOCKING, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing of pieter dundervelt
Last Line: She took her gift and married piet.
Subject(s): Christmas; Love; Nativity, The


THE STRENGTH OF THE WEAK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last chris'mus, little benny
Last Line: "you skeer me thataway!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Family Life; Gifts & Giving; Childhood; Nativity, The; Relatives


THE TAKING DOWN, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever since the seriously ill were sent away,
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Religion; Theology


THE THIRD CHRISTMAS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary at her window
Last Line: God's will must be.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE THREE KINGS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three kings came riding from far away, / melchior and gaspar and baltasar
Last Line: And returned to their homes by another way.
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Magi; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE THREE KINGS, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the star in the east was lit to shine
Last Line: And laid in the manger on christmas morn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert
Subject(s): Christmas; Magi; Nativity, The


THE THREE KINGS [OF COLOGNE], by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From out cologne there came three kings
Last Line: My only tribute, christ, my king!
Subject(s): Christmas; Magi; Nativity, The


THE THREE WISE MEN, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I came from tigris' sandy plain
Last Line: Where christ himself could find no home.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Magi; Nativity, The


THE TOY CROSS, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My little boy at christmas-tide
Last Line: Clasp'd for eternity!
Subject(s): Christmas; Crosses; Nativity, The


THE TRAPPER'S CHRISTMAS EVE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's mighty lonesome-like and drear
Last Line: God bless all men -- it's christmas morn.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE TROUBADOUR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the christmas of the year
Last Line: At christmas in the baron's hall
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TRUE CHRISTMAS, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So stick up ivie and the bays
Last Line: And then you keep your christmas right.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE TURKEY, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At christmas time the poulterer's is all a blaze of gas
Last Line: He can't complain at christmas if we take him at his word.
Subject(s): Christmas; Turkeys; Nativity, The


THE VEIL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think and think; yet still I fail
Last Line: A daylight face, those starry eyes?
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE VIGIL OF JOSEPH, by ELSA BARKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the wise men went, and the strange star
Last Line: "it loves—and serves—and cannot understand!"
Subject(s): Christmas; Joseph, Saint (1st Century B.c.-a.d.); Nativity, The


THE VIRGIN'S LULLABY, by NORA (CHESSON) HOPPER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush thee, hush thee, little son
Last Line: Hush thee, hush thee, babe most dear!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE VIRGIN'S SLUMBER SONG, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shoon-a-shoon / I sing no psalm
Last Line: My song of sleep.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE VOICE OF CHRISTMAS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot put the presence by, of him, the crucified
Last Line: The master of the centuries who will not be denied!
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Crucifixion; Religion; Nativity, The; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology


THE VOICE OF THE CHRIST-CHILD, by PHILLIPS BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The earth has grown old with its burden of care
Last Line: That mankind are the children of god.
Variant Title(s): Christmas Carol
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


THE WAITS, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: At the break of christmas day
Last Line: "all love's treasures with him bringing!"
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE WAY TO BETHLEHEM, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long was the way to bethlehem
Last Line: The guerdon of his peace!
Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


THE WEEPING BABE, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: She kneels by the cradle
Last Line: That still thou wilt cry.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


THE WIFE'S CHRISTMAS, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can you speak to me so, charlie!
Last Line: Your wife but a single year!
Subject(s): Christmas; Marriage; Nativity, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE WISE, by WILLIAM EVERSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miles across the turbulent kingdoms
Alternate Author Name(s): Antoninus, Brother
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE WISE MEN ASK THE CHILDREN THE WAY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear children,' they asked in every town
Last Line: And the kings began to sing.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE WORKHOUSE BOY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cloth vos laid in the vorkhouse hall
Last Line: That he vos push'd in by the overseers
Subject(s): Children;christmas;crimes & Criminals;poorhouses; "childhood;nativity, The;workhouses;


THE WREATH ON THE DOOR, by SARA F. LANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a wreath on the door
Last Line: "oh come and adore."
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THE YOUNG OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mamma is a widow: there's only
Last Line: "good morning!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Family Life; Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Nativity, The; Relatives


THE YULE DAYS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The king sent his lady on the first yule day
Last Line: Wha learns my carol and carries it away?
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


THERE COMES A SHIP, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


THEY LEAVE THE LAND OF GEMS AND GOLD, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


THIS BABE TO US THAT NOW IS BORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now may we singen as it is
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


THIS DAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "an heavenly song, I dare well say"
Last Line: This day
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;


THIS DAY CHRIST WAS BORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


THIS ENDERNIGHT I SAW A SIGHT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


THIS HOLY NIGHT, by GERTRUDE HANSON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


THIS IS THE DAY WHICH GOD HATH MADE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then joseph rose up and brought an ass
Subject(s): Christmas


THIS LITTLE EARTH, by LESLIE SAVAGE CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did he who wrought the universe
Subject(s): Christmas


THIS ROSE IS RAILED ON A RYSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


THIS WHITE SINGING HOUR, by GRACE VIRGINIA HOLLINGSWORTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the starlight, over the sea
Last Line: Peace and good will.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THOSE LAST, LATE HOURS OF CHRISTMAS EVE, by LOU ANN WELTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All has stilled, magician sleep having cast his spell
Subject(s): Christmas


THOUGHTS AT CHRISTMAS, by GRACE MATHEWS WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: What do I get out of christmas?
Last Line: Are god's gifts I hold most dear.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


THOUGHTS ON CHRISTMAS-DAY IN INDIA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is christmas, and the sunshine
Last Line: Is what I can feel no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Christmas; India; Nativity, The


THREE CHRISTMAS SONGS, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


THREE GIFTS, by EDWARD JUDSON HANNA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gold and frankincense and myrrh
Last Line: This is the golden gift.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


THREE HOLY KINGS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once long ago when at the desert's edge
Last Line: And the valley of turquoise
Subject(s): Christmas


THREE HOLY KINGS FROM MORGENLAND, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


THREE KINGS, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am gaspar. I have brought frankincense
Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben
Subject(s): Christmas


THREE KINGS OF ORIENT, by JOHN HENRY HOPKINS JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We three kings of orient are
Last Line: Chorus
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Nativity, The


THREE KINGS OF ORIENT (WITH MUSIC), by JOHN HENRY HOPKINS JR.    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We three kings of orient are
Last Line: Sealed in the stone-cold tomb
Subject(s): Christmas


THREE KINGS WENT RIDING, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Christmas


THREE KINGS' SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The magi came out of the orient land
Last Line: "right glad, then, were those three"
Subject(s): Christmas;magi; "nativity, The;


THREE SONGS OF MARY, SELS., by MADELEINE L'ENGLE CAMP FRANKLIN                       
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion


THREE WISE KINGS, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: To bethlehem town in the long ago
Subject(s): Christmas; Magi


THRICE WELCOME CHRISTMAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now thrice welcome christmas
Subject(s): Christmas


THROUGH THE AGES, by MARGARET HOPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peace on the earth
Subject(s): Christmas


THROUGH THE HOLLY WREATH, by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME    Poem Source                    
First Line: I peeped once through a holly wreath
Last Line: His lips were smiling, I could see, %in holly berry reds
Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee
Subject(s): Christmas


TIDINGS I BRING YOU FOR TO TELL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


TIDINGS, TIDINGS THAT BE TRUE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whereas adam caused by sin
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


TIME FOR SANTA CLAUS, by M. NORA BOYLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now's the time for santa claus
Subject(s): Christmas


TITLES OF CHRIST: COUNSELLOR, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mist and cloud and darkness
Last Line: Even to the end.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


TITLES OF CHRIST: MAN OF REST, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, christmas morn
Last Line: For we which have believed do enter into rest.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


TITLES OF CHRIST: THE EVERLASTING FATHER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O name of gentlest grace
Last Line: A little child to be!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


TITLES OF CHRIST: THE MIGHTY GOD, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The christmas bells proclaim
Last Line: Divinest lord and king.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


TITLES OF CHRIST: THE PRINCE OF PEACE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O name of beauty and of calm
Last Line: Whose reign within thy heart shall evermore increase.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


TITLES OF CHRIST: WONDERFUL, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wonderful! Wonderful!
Last Line: Filling thy spirit with christmas praise.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


TO A SALESGIRL, WEARY OF ARTIFICIAL HOLIDAY TREES, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clock shows nearly five
Last Line: The last girl of the year, %and one more year's far gone
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


TO AN OLD FOGY, WHO CONTENDS THAT CHRISTMAS IS WORN OUT, by OWEN SEAMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O frankly bald and obviously stout!
Last Line: Outgrown!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


TO BLISS GOD BRINGS US, ALL AND SOME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In bethlehem, in that fair city
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


TO CHRISTINA AND KATHARINE AT CHRISTMAS, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now christmas is a porter's-rest whereon to set his load
Last Line: For you and me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Christmas; God; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


TO LOUISE (A CHRISTMAS BABY, NOW ONE YEAR OLD), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Undaunted by a world of grief
Last Line: Lit candles on a christmas tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Babies; Christmas; Infants; Nativity, The


TO MY DAUGHTER IN ITALY, AT CHRISTMAS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is, ah where! The citron bloom
Last Line: In honour of your new-born king.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


TO NOEL, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Noel of the marvelous night
Subject(s): Christmas


TO SANTA CLAUS, by JENNIE D. MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear santa claus, I'll let you know
Subject(s): Christmas


TO SANTA CLAUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most tangible of all the gods that
Last Line: Take us as children to thy heart again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Life; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


TO THE OLD YEAR, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Auf wiedersehen! For we shall meet before
Subject(s): Christmas


TO TOM, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou that dost thy christmas keep
Last Line: The glass shows tears, beloved tom!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


TO-MORROW SHALL BE MY DANCING DAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: This have I done for my true love
Subject(s): Christmas


TOAST, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The many do not break their bread with us
Subject(s): Christmas


TOMORROW SHALL BE MY DANCING DAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A COTTAGE AMONG THE HILLS, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside, the winter moonlight shines so peacefully
Last Line: Most like the moonlight shining there without.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Grandparents; Melodies; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nativity, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Songs


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. CHRISTMAS EVE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! The bells ringing
Last Line: Shrine of the soul, shrine of the new-born god—of man himself.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Love; Nativity, The


TOY DAY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not dreams, not fairy tales, but deeds
Last Line: Of what shall be the paradise.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Toys; Childhood; Nativity, The


TREE WITH ORNAMENTS BY MY MOTHER, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It could be a wintering bear this year
Last Line: Invisible bird fir fragrance, who says they could even be broken
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Trees; Trees; Winter


TRIMMING THE CHRISTMAS TREE, AFTER YOUR MOTHER'S STROKE, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are looking for a small tree. If we stand it
Last Line: From on high, inaudible as a dog whistle
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Family Life; Holidays


TROUBLE IN TOYLAND, by BETTY PARASKEVAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Junior kroll took his cousin, honey duff
Last Line: Gave junior a kick with her tiny feet
Subject(s): Christmas


TWELFTH NIGHT, by JOHN PETER SCUPHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our candles, lit, re-lit, have gone down now
Subject(s): Christmas


TWELFTH NIGHT, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It has always been king herod that I feared
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


TWELFTH NIGHT, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It has always been king herod that I feared
Last Line: Now let this iron bar be importuned; %I say you shall not speak to him of war
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas


TWELFTH NIGHT (1), by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down from the window take the withered holly
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


TWELFTH NIGHT (1), by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down from the window take the withered holly
Last Line: Marked for exchange at abercrombie-fitch's
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Christmas


TWELFTH NIGHT SONG, by STEPHEN SENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heaped be the fagots high
Subject(s): Christmas


TWELFTH NIGHT STAR, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the bitter time of year
Subject(s): Christmas


TWELFTH-NIGHT SUPERSTITION, by BARNABY (BARNABE) GOOGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twice six nights then from christmasse, they do count
Alternate Author Name(s): Goche, Barnaby; Goghe, Barnaby; Gouche, Barnaby
Subject(s): Christmas


TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A partridge in a pear-tree
Subject(s): Christmas


TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first day of christmas my true love sent to me
Subject(s): Christmas


TWO CHRISTMAS SAINTS, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time was, as christmas eve drew near
Subject(s): Christmas


TWO SERENADES: 1. ON CHRISTMAS EVE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late on christmas eve, in the street alone
Last Line: She did not come.
Subject(s): Christmas; Love - Complaints; Nativity, The


UNDER OBLIGATIONS (A NEGRO PARSON'S CHRISTMAS SERMON), by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I notice dat de weddah's rathah chilsome, mo' o' less,
Last Line: Kase yo's undah obligashuns to ole santa claus.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): African Americans; Blacks; Christmas; Santa Claus; Sermons; Negroes; American Blacks; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, marvelous is nature!
Subject(s): Christmas


UNDER THE MISTLETOE, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not know she'd take it so
Last Line: Or else I never dared
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


UNDER THE MISTLETOE, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not know she'd take it so
Last Line: I did not know she'd take it so, %or else I'd never dared
Subject(s): Christmas


UNDER THE SNOW, by ROBERT COLLYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was christmas eve in the year fourteen
Last Line: Fifty years syne come christmas day.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


UNFORTUNATE, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I des so weak en sinful
Subject(s): Christmas


UNTO TO US A BOY IS BORN (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: While the choir with peals of glee doth rend the air asunder
Subject(s): Christmas


UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Given, not lent, / and not withdrawn - once sent
Last Line: And he, too, whom we have by heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


UNTRIMMING THE TREE, by JOHN N. MORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now all that scintillation is a chore
Last Line: Out of the storm, once more shall be assembled
Subject(s): Christmas


UPON A DYING LADY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace
Last Line: It is about to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Courage; Death; Dolls; Toys; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


UPON CHRIST HIS BIRTH, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange news! A city full? Will none give way
Last Line: Their hearts, as well as inns, are made of clay.
Subject(s): Bible; Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


UPON THE NATIVITY OF OUR SAVIOUR AND SACRAMENT THEN RECEIVED, by WILLIAM HAMMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See from his watery tropic how the sun
Last Line: Born to our flesh, into his spirit we.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


VENI, VENI, EMMANUEL (WITH MUSIC), by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O come, o come, emmanuel
Last Line: Shall come to thee, o israel! Amen
Subject(s): Christmas


VENTURER, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo! As some venturer, from his stars receiving
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ


VERBUM PATRIS HODIE PROCESSIT EX VIRGINE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The son of the father of heavenly bliss
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


VERSES FOR CHILDREN: CHRISTMAS TREE, by ZEDA K. AILES    Poem Text                    
First Line: We boys and girls all love the tree
Last Line: To tell old santa claus just why.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees


VIOLET: 2. CHRISTMAS-EVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: April-hearted violet
Last Line: Into flower.
Subject(s): Christmas; Flowers; Love; Violets; Nativity, The


VIRGIN MARY HAD A BABY BOY, by UNKNOWN+172    Poem Source                    
Last Line: He come from the glorious kingdom!
Subject(s): Christmas


VIRGO, ROSA VIRGINUM, TUUM PRECOR FILIUM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Queen of heaven, blessed may thou be
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


WAITS, by MADELEINE NIGHTINGALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were sparkles on the window-pane
Subject(s): Christmas


WASN'T THAT A MIGHTY DAY, by UNKNOWN+172    Poem Source                    
Last Line: When jesus christ was born!
Subject(s): Christmas


WASSAIL CHORUS AT THE MERMAID TAVERN, by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas knows a merry, merry place
Last Line: Rare!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore
Subject(s): Christmas; Dramatists; Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Heywood, Thomas (1574-1641); Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Mermaid Tavern; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nativity, The


WASSAIL SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here we come a-wassailing
Variant Title(s): Love And Joy Come To You; The Wassailers' Caro
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year


WASSAIL SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wassail! Wassail! All round the town
Subject(s): Christmas


WASSAIL SONG (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here we come a-wassailing
Subject(s): Christmas


WASSAIL, WASSAIL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wassail, wassail, all over the town!
Last Line: For to let these jolly wassailers in
Subject(s): Christmas


WASSAIL, WASSAIL, WASSAIL, SING WE, IN WORSHIP, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now joy be to the trinity
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


WASSAILER'S SONG, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wassail! Wassail! All over the town
Subject(s): Christmas


WASSAILING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wisselton, wasselton, who lives here?
Subject(s): Christmas


WAYSIDE MUSIC, by CHARLES HENRY CRANDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: As little children in a darkened hall
Variant Title(s): Waitin
Subject(s): Christmas


WE HAVE SEEN HIS STAR IN THE EAST, by MOLLY WHITFORD ANDERSON HALEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: God, let our sons this holy night
Subject(s): Christmas


WE NEED A LITTLE CHRISTMAS, by BETTY PARASKEVAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Junior kroll found some bells
Last Line: Not till the tulips bloom in the spring
Subject(s): Christmas


WE REMEMBER JESUS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O god, our father
Subject(s): Christmas


WE SAW HIM SLEEPING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We wish you a merry christmas, we wish you a merry christmas, we
Last Line: So bring it right here!
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


WE'RE HAPPY AT CHRISTMAS, by RONALD (RON) ALLAN KLUG    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


WELCOME YULE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "welcome yule, thou merry man"
Last Line: Welcome yule
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


WHAT CHEER? GOOD CHEER! BE MERRY AND GLAD THIS NEW YEAR, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lift up your heartes and be glad!
Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Holidays; New Year


WHAT CHILD IS THIS WHO LAID TO REST (WITH MUSIC), by WILLIAM CHATTERTON DIX    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Haste, haste to bring him laud, the babe, the son of mary
Subject(s): Christmas


WHAT CHRI'MAS FETCHED THE WIGGINSES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter-time, er summertime
Last Line: "n' take the town o' chinkypin!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Churches; Summer; Winter; Nativity, The; Cathedrals


WHAT I SHOULD LIKE, by JENNIE D. MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On christmas eve I'd like to lie
Subject(s): Christmas


WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I want to know how it will end
Last Line: I want and I want and I want and I will always be hungry
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays


WHAT LITTLE SAUL GOT, CHRISTMAS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Us parents mostly thinks our own's
Last Line: "I'm got the pleurisy!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Nativity, The; Parenthood; Illness


WHAT SANTA CLAUS THINKS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hi! Another one! What's all the world about?
Subject(s): Christmas


WHAT THE DONKEY SAW, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No room in the inn, of course
Last Line: Would be going places together
Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A.
Subject(s): Christmas; Donkeys


WHAT THE THREE LITTLE STOCKINGS SAID, by ALICE J. WHITNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas the night before christmas, and small stockings three
Last Line: And on each merry christmas she welds it anew.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Crime & Criminals; Gifts & Giving; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


WHAT TIDINGS?, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "that tidings bringest thou, messenger"
Last Line: That man his pain is turned to play
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


WHAT YOU GONNA NAME THAT PRETTY LITTLE BOY?, by UNKNOWN+172    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, mary, what you gonna name
Last Line: Glory, glory, glory %to the newborn king!
Subject(s): Christmas


WHAT, HEARD YE NOT, THE KING OF JERUSALEM IS NOW BORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I shall you tell a great marvel
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


WHEN SANTA CLAUS WAS ILL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old father time, on christmas eve
Subject(s): Christmas


WHEN THE CHRIST CHILD CAME, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas christmas eve, the snow
Subject(s): Christmas


WHEN THE STARS OF MORNING SANG, by ANNE P. L. FIELD    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS BY NIGHT', by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Subject(s): Christmas


WHILE THE CHRISTMAS LOG IS BURNING, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to the night when we gather once more
Last Line: While the christmas log is burning.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


WHISPERING PALMS, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Holy angels and blest
Last Line: My babe is asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega
Variant Title(s): A Christmas Cradlesong
Subject(s): Christmas; Palm Trees; Nativity, The


WHITE CHRISTMAS, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Punctually at christmas the soft plush
Last Line: Of repentance for the false day that's fled
Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R.
Subject(s): Christmas; Social Protest


WHO CAN FORGET - NEVER TO BE FORGOT, by GILES FLETCHER THE YOUNGER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas


WHO SANTY CLAUS WUZ, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jes' a little bit o' feller - I remember still
Last Line: Long afore %she knows who %'santy claus' is!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Santa Claus


WHY GOD MADE CHRISTMAS, by ESTHER CHRISTENSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lord looked down on the earth he had made
Last Line: Only then, are you safe and blest
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas


WILLIE'S DREAM, by STACY E. BAKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tucked tight within his trundle bed
Subject(s): Christmas


WINDS THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES, by KATHERINE PARKER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


WINTER DAYS, by GARETH OWEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Biting air %winds blow
Subject(s): Christmas


WINTER'S CHILDREN, by JENNIE D. MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I come from the cold and stormy north
Subject(s): Christmas


WINTER, 1825, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor is stern winter's icy sceptre swayed
Last Line: Till new-year's happy morning crown'd the whole.
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; New York City - 19th Century; Seasons; Winter; Nativity, The


WINTER-CRICKET, by JOHN HEATH-STUBBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cricket on a rubbish-tip
Subject(s): Christmas


WISE MAY BRING THEIR LEARNING, by EDWARD JOHN HOPKINS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


WITH BEST WISHES, by DOROTHY PARKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glad christmas day once more has come
Last Line: "and a highly colored copy of ""that old sweetheart of mine."
Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


WITH MERRY GLEE AND SOLACE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


WOMAN'S CHRISTMAS, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not, mary, unto thee alone
Last Line: For unto us this child is born!
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


WORD TO SANTA CLAUS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear santa, lean your ear this way
Subject(s): Christmas


WORDS FOR A PEAL OF CHRISTMAS BELLS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is there in this child
Last Line: Safe, tranquil, clear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


WORDS FROM AN OLD SPANISH CAROL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shall I tell you who will come
Last Line: "who will knell them gently down / before the lord, new-born?"
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


WORK WANTED, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'd like to work for santa claus
Last Line: Jim.
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; December; Santa Claus; Toys; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


WORSHIP WE THIS HOLY DAY, THAT ALL INNOCENTS FOR US, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Herod that was both wild and wode
Subject(s): Christmas Carols


XMAS COMING, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: November night. Waning moon
Last Line: The jolly secrets she can't tell
Subject(s): Christmas; November; Nativity, The


XMAS COMING, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: November night. Waning moon
Last Line: The jolly secrets she can't ell
Subject(s): Christmas; November


YE GREATE ASTONISHMENT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whosoever on ye nighte of ye nativity of ye young lord jesus
Subject(s): Christmas


YE SHEPHERD PLAINS OF BETHLEHEM, by WILLIAM MERRIAM CRANE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Christmas


YET LOVE WAS BORN, by CHARLES HANNIBAL VOSS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love came into a world of hate
Last Line: On christmas eve.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The


YOUR DAUGHTER AT CHRISTMAS, by RON SALISBURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a sense akin to revelation
Last Line: Not the big clap of history. %there is no gift like my gift
Subject(s): Christmas; Daughters; Peace


YOUR LUCK IS ABOUT TO CHANGE', by SUSAN ELIZABETH HOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ominous inscrutable chinese news
Last Line: Then savor the newborn babe
Subject(s): Christmas; Fortune Tellers; Luck


YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS, by ARNOLD KENSETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lights in a room are never light
Last Line: Die without fear in his nativity
Subject(s): Amherst, Massachusetts; Christmas


YULE AT THENGELFOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was yule at thengelfor
Last Line: At the sharp white tide of yule!
Subject(s): Christianity; Christmas; Pacifism; War; Nativity, The; Peace Movements


YULE-SONG: A MEMORY, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: December comes, snows come
Last Line: The hanging of the mistletoe.
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


YULE-TIDE FIRES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cleanse with the burning log of oak
Subject(s): Christmas


YULE-TIDE SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now christmas is come
Subject(s): Christmas


YULETIDE, by EMMA F. COFFIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O glowing east! O wondrous sparkling star
Last Line: Our coming bridegroom, glorious king.
Subject(s): Birth; Christmas Carols; Salvation; Child Birth; Midwifery


YULETIDE YARNS, by ALAN PATRICK HERBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Father christmas, fat with gifts
Last Line: "should not shine upon a ski."
Alternate Author Name(s): Patrick, A. P.
Subject(s): Christmas; Oxford University; Nativity, The


ZENITH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We watched the gradual rising of a star
Last Line: Beneath the king's own smile, -- perpetual zenith thine.
Subject(s): Alps; Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mountains; Night; Stars; Nativity, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Bedtime