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by James Daley
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ISBN: 0486447464 Dover Publications Price: $4.95 |
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A rich and varied compilation of Yuletide verse, this collection ranges from serious seasonal reflections by Martin Luther and John Milton to flights of fancy from Lewis Carroll. Other contributors include Rossetti, Kipling, Poe, Longfellow, Dickinson, Hardy, Donne, Jonson, and Sir Walter Scott. 25 black-and-white etchings, engravings, and drawings.
Dover Original.
Table of Contents for Favorite Christmas Poems
| Gabriel's Message (Sabine Baring-Gould) | |||||||
| Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913 (Robert Bridges) | |||||||
| O Little Town of Bethlehem (Bishop Phillips Brooks) | |||||||
| Christmas Song (Bliss Carman) | |||||||
| Christmas Greeting from a Fairy to a Child (Lewis Carroll) | |||||||
| A Christmas Carol (G. K. Chesterton) | |||||||
| The House of Christmas (G. K. Chesterton) | |||||||
| December (John Clare) | |||||||
| A Christmas Carol (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) | |||||||
| The Savior Must Have been a Docile Gentleman (Emily Dickinson) | |||||||
| Nativity (John Donne) | |||||||
| Jest 'Fore Christmas (Eugene Field) | |||||||
| Carol of the Field Mice, from The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) | |||||||
| A Friend's Greeting (Edgar A. Guest) | |||||||
| The Oxen (Thomas Hardy) | |||||||
| Christmas [I] (George Herbert) | |||||||
| Christmas [II] (George Herbert) | |||||||
| Ceremonies for Christmas (Robert Herrick) | |||||||
| Christmas-Eve, Another Ceremony (Robert Herrick) | |||||||
| A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall (Robert Herrick) | |||||||
| We Three Kings (John Henry Hopkins) | |||||||
| The Masque of Christmas (Ben Jonson) | |||||||
| Christmas in India (Rudyard Kipling) | |||||||
| Eddi's Service (Rudyard Kipling) | |||||||
| A Nativity (Rudyard Kipling) | |||||||
| Christmas Bells (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) | |||||||
| The Three Kings (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) | |||||||
| From Heaven Above to Earth I Come (Martin Luther) | |||||||
| On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (John Milton) | |||||||
| Silent Night (Joseph Mohr) | |||||||
| A Visit from St. Nicholas (Clement Clarke Moore) | |||||||
| French Noel (William Morris) | |||||||
| Good King Wenceslas (J. M. Neale) | |||||||
| "Hear the sledges with the bells" (Edgar Allan Poe) | |||||||
| A Christmas Carol (Christina Rossetti) | |||||||
| What Can I Give Him? (Christina Rossetti) | |||||||
| "Heap on more wood!" (Sir Walter Scott) | |||||||
| It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Edmund Hamilton Sears) | |||||||
| The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (Christopher Smart) | |||||||
| New Prince, New Pomp (Robert Southwell) | |||||||
| The Burning Babe (Robert Southwell) | |||||||
| Christmas at Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) | |||||||
| Sleep, Baby, Sleep! (John Addington Symonds) | |||||||
| While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night (Nahum Tate) | |||||||
| Christmas and New Year Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) | |||||||
| The Mahogany Tree (William Makepeace Thackeray) | |||||||
| Jack Frost (Celia Thaxter) | |||||||
| Mrs. Kriss Kringle (Edith M. Thomas) | |||||||
| The Nativity (Henry Vaughan) | |||||||
| The True Christmas (Henry Vaughan) | |||||||
| A Christmas Carol (George Wither) | |||||||
| "The Minstrels played their Christmas tune" (William Wordsworth) |