We’ve enriched our collection of Christmas poems with several more classics celebrating this special wintry time of the year:
- Lines spoken after the ghost’s exit in the very first scene of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1603)
- “A Christmas Carol,” George Wither’s merry 17th century recounting of all the ways life is different during the Christmas season (1622)
- “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” the still-sung classic that some scholars trace back to medieval French fable-songs, but that didn’t appear in print until it was included in an 18th century English book of children’s rhymes (1780)
- “Christmas at Sea,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s mournful ballad about setting sail away from home on Christmas Day (1888)
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