Category: Christmas Poems

Welcome to our Christmas poems! Curl up fireside as we present a merry mix of holiday poems

The Magi by William Butler Yeats

The Magi by William Butler Yeats Now as at all times I can see in the mind’s eye, In their

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1823 – 1902) was a poet and novelist who brought fresh perspective to New England life through her Gothic-inspired writings.

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, born in 1832 in Cheshire, England. Best known for his whimsical children’s stories

from: In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Lord Tennyson XXVIII The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is

Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand; The decks

Ring Out, Wild Bells by Alfred Lord Tennyson Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the

The Oxen by Thomas Hardy Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. ‘Now they are all on their knees,’ An

This poem is popularly known as Over the river and Through the Wood. Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) was a prominent American

A Visit From St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not

Grace Curtis’ chapbook, The Surly Bonds of Earth was selected by Stephen Dunn as the 2010 winner of the Lettre Sauvage chapbook contest. Grace’s work

I was snow starved all this time
Was eager for the fall to
Skirt in its random leaves and make way
For the white candy floss

A Snow Day Hue by Lori Lipsky Solitude arrived today on the color white. It blew in at a diagonal

A Christmas Carol by James Russell Lowell “What means this glory round our feet,” The Magi mused, “more bright than

Christmas in the Olden Time by Walter Scott On Christmas-eve the bells were rung; The damsel donned her kirtle

Ballade of Christmas by Andrew Lang Between the moonlight and the fire In winter twilights long ago, What ghosts we