Favorite Christmas Poems

Favorite Christmas Poems (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) James Daley (Editor). Mineola: Dover, 2006

„This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is a new compilation of fifty-two poems, mostly British and American (plus one German and one Canadian), from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries."

1. Christmas—Poetry. 2. Christian poetry, English. 3. Christian poetry, American. I. Daley, James.

Table of Contents

• Gabriel’s Message
• Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913
• O Little Town of Bethlehem
• Christmas Song
• Christmas Greeting from a Fairy to a Child
• A Christmas Carol
• The House of Christmas
• December
• A Christmas Carol
• The Savior Must Have Been a Docile Gentleman
• Nativity
• Jest ’Fore Christmas
• Carol of the Field Mice
• A Friend’s Greeting
• The Oxen
• Christmas (I)
• Christmas (II)
• Ceremonies for Christmas
• Christmas-Eve, Another Ceremony
• A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall
• We Three Kings
• The Masque of Christmas
• Christmas in India
• Eddi’s Service
• A Nativity
• Christmas Bells
• The Three Kings
• From Heaven Above to Earth I Come
• On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
• Silent Night
• A Visit from St. Nicholas
• French Noel
• Good King Wenceslas
• “Hear the sledges with the bells”
• A Christmas Carol
• What Can I Give Him?
• “Heap on more wood!”
• It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
• The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
• New Prince, New Pomp
• The Burning Babe
• Christmas at Sea
• Sleep, Baby, Sleep!
• While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night
• Christmas and New Year Bells
• „The Mahogany Tree
• Jack Frost
• Mrs. Kriss Kringle
• The Nativity
• The True Christmas
• A Christmas Carol
• “The Minstrels played their Christmas tune“