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)
- 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)
- Robert Frost,
Christmas Trees (1920)

