With thanks, once again, to the members of the NewPoetry list who reminded us of some of the poems gathered here for your holiday reading & reflection:
- Robert Herrick,
“Ceremonies for Christmas” (1648)
- Henry Vaughan,
“The True Christmas” (1678)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
“A Christmas Carol” (1799)
- Sir Walter Scott,
“Christmas in the Olden Time” (from Marmion, 1808)
- Clement Clark Moore (attributed to him -- but more probably written by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.),
“A Visit from St. Nicholas” (first published in 1823, likely written in 1808)
- Emily Dickinson,
“’Twas just this time last year I died” (#140)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
“Christmas Bells” (1864)
- Christina Rossetti,
“In the Bleak Midwinter” (1872)
- G.K. Chesterton,
“A Christmas Carol” (1900)
- Sara Teasdale,
“Christmas Carol” (1911)
- Walter de la Mare,
“Mistletoe” (1913)
- Thomas Hardy,
“The Oxen” (1915)
- William Butler Yeats,
“The Magi” (1916)
- Robert Frost,
“Christmas Trees” (1920)
