Introduction The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore Ceremonies for Christmas Robert Herrick.38 Give Me Holly by Christina Rossetti The Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Hanging of the Holly by Clinton Scollard The Oxen by Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy Minstrels by William Wordsworth Winter Morning by Alexander Pushkin Christmas Time by John Clare Old Santeclaus by Anonymous The Twelve Days of Christmas by Anonymous Ring Out, Wild Bells by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Lordings, Listen to Our Lay by Anonymous Jest 'Fore Christmas by Eugene Field Spellbound by Emily Brontë Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson Woods in Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Snow-flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Meeting by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Song of Christmas by Katharine Tynan Signs of Christmas by Edwin Lees Our Joyful Feast by George Wither Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris by Helen Maria Williams The Truce of Christmas by G. K. Chesterton A Christmas Song for Three Guilds by G. K. Chesterton A Child of the Snows by G. K. Chesterton The House of Christmas by G.

K. Chesterton To M. E. W. by G. K. Chesterton Winter Evening from "The Task" by William Cowper "Blow. Blow, thou winter wind" by William Shakespeare Before the Ice is in the Pools by Emily Dickinson In Drear Nighted December by John Keats To a Locomotive in by Winter Walt Whitman London Snow by Robert Bridges.