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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;


"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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 (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 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 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 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 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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do the prairie flowers, the huge autumn
Subject(s): Christmas; War; Nativity, The


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 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 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 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 (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 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 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 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


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


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 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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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 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


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'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


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


BC-AD, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE    Poem 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


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


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


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


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


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


BOARDING: 2. HOLIDAYS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem 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


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


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;


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


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


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 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 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 THE BROWN KING, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem 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: 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


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


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 IN WALES, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem 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


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


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


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 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 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 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 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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They say: but cattle near
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The biggest tree in provence
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


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


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 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 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 1944, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem 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 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 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 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 AWAY FROM HOME, by JANE KENYON    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 (WITH MUSIC), by CHARLES WESLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! The herald angels sing
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Carols; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the orchestra stops playing, veiled
Subject(s): Christmas; Love; Night; Nativity, The; Bedtime


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


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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 CHINATOWN, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem 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 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 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 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 IS COMING, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem 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 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 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 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 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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If bethlehem were here today
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


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


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem 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 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 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 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 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, 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-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


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


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 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


CITY CHRISTMAS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem 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


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


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


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


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 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


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


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


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 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 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 TWENTY-FOURTH, by ELEANOR SLATER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tomorrow you are born again
Last Line: Approaches calvary?
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


DIFFERENT VIEWS; A CHRISMAS DUET, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, christmaa comes but once a year
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


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


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


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


ELIZABETH'S WAR WITH THE CHRISTMAS BEAR: 1601, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem 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


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


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


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


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;


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


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 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


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


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;


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


GIANT NIGHT, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem 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


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


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


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 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 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


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 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


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


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


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


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 NIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joseph, I afraid of stars
Subject(s): Christmas; Night; Nativity, The; Bedtime


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 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


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


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


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 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 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: 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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


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


ILLUMINATION, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem 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


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 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 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


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


ISAIAH'S COAL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always, he woke in those days
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Christmas; Love; Nativity, The


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


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


JOURNEY OF THE MAGI, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem 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


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


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


KID STUFF, by FRANK HORNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wise guys
Subject(s): African Americans; Christmas; Negroes; American Blacks; Nativity, The


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


LADY SELECTING HER CHRISTMAS CARDS, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem 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


LEDA HIDDEN, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Christmas eve, unseasonable cold
Subject(s): Christmas; Parks; Snow; Nativity, The


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 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


LETTER AT CHRISTMAS, by DONALD HALL    Poem 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 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


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


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 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 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 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


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


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;


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


MAGUS, by DONALD REVELL    Poem 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


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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Justine called on christmas day to say she
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


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


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'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, MOTHER OF CHRIST, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem 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


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


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


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


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


MOSAIC OF THE NATIVITY: SERBIA, WINTER, 1993, by JANE KENYON    Poem 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


MR. BLEANEY, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem 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. 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


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 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


NATIVITY, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Town of a hundred thousand hands
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


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 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;


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 POEM, by PHILIP LARKIN    Poem 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'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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again and then again ... The year is born
Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The


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


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 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: 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


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;


OFFICE PARTY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem 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


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


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 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 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 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


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: 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 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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A nice. Normal morning
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


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


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


OUR CHRISTMAS TREE, by WENDELL BERRY    Poem 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 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 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;


PANCAKES WITH SANTA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem 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


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 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 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


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


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


PHAEDO, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem 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


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


PICTURES FROM BRUEGHEL: 4. THE ADORATION OF THE KINGS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem 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


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


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


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


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


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


SAINT NICHOLAS, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem 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


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


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 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 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 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'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


SHEPHERD'S SONG AT CHRISTMAS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem 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


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


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 HEY! SING HEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And so let's all be jolly
Subject(s): Christmas;friendship; "nativity, The;


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


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


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


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


SONG, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem 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 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 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 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: 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 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: 2, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem 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 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 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


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


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


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


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


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;


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


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;


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 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 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 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 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 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 CONSECRATION OF THE COMMON WAY, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hills that had been lone and lean
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As you are still pursuing it
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


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 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 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 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


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 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


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 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 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' 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;


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 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 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 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 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


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


TWELFTH NIGHT, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem 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 (1), by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem 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


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 MISTLETOE, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem 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 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


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


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


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


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


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 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 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


XMAS COMING, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem 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


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


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


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