A Snow Day Hue by Lori Lipsky Solitude arrived today on the color white. It blew in at a diagonal with swirls of wind and achieved its blanket result before early night covered the gray. ### Lori Lipsky lives in Waunakee, WI with her husband and their daughter. She blogs at Visits and Verse:…
Christmas Poems
Welcome to our Christmas poems! Curl up fireside as we present a merry mix of holiday poems both classic and cutting-edge to fill your heart with good cheer this Yuletide season. From time-honored verses to ones penned by emerging poets, these festive rhymes capture the magical spirit of Christmas.
Start off by reminiscing with Alfred Lord Tennyson’s nostalgic “In Memoriam A.H.H.” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s beloved seafaring “Christmas At Sea.” Recite Tennyson’s bold traditional ode “Ring Out, Wild Bells” as we welcome the coming new year. Feel the wonder of Christmas night in Thomas Hardy’s pastoral “The Oxen.”
Transition to contemporary voices like Shweta Garg’s wintery “Snow Starved” and Lori Lipsky’s vivid “A Snow Day Hue” before getting swept up in Clement Clarke Moore’s iconic “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.” We’ve included Grace Curtis’ charming contemporary ode to the Christmas tree itself as well.
Reflect on the deeper meaning of the holiday with classics like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s resonant “Christmas Bells” and Robert Southwell’s moving “The Burning Babe” alongside D.H. Lawrence’s modernist “Winter in the Boulevard.”
This collection of both age-old and newly penned yuletide rhymes captures all that’s magical about poetry and Christmas! We’ll keep adding to the lineup, but for now curl up by the fire and enjoy our holly jolly selections.
- The Magi by William Butler Yeats
- Christmas Comes Again by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Christmas Greetings by Lewis Carroll
- from: In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
- Thanksgiving Day by Lydia Maria Child
- Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
- Ode to the Christmas Tree by Grace Curtis
- Snow starved by Shweta Garg
- A Snow Day Hue by Lori Lipsky
- A Christmas Carol by James Russell Lowell
- Christmas in the Olden Time by Walter Scott
- Ballade of Christmas by Andrew Lang
- CHRISTMAS BELLS by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell
- Winter In The Boulevard by D.H. Lawrence
A Christmas Carol by James Russell Lowell
A Christmas Carol by James Russell Lowell “What means this glory round our feet,” The Magi mused, “more bright than morn?” And voices chanted clear and sweet, “To-day the Prince of Peace is born!” “What means that star,” the Shepherds said, “That brightens through the rocky glen?” And angels, answering overhead, Sang, “Peace on earth,…
Christmas in the Olden Time by Walter Scott
Christmas in the Olden Time by Walter Scott On Christmas-eve the bells were rung; The damsel donned her kirtle sheen; The hall was dressed with holly green; Forth to the wood did merry men go, To gather in the mistletoe. Thus opened wide the baron’s hall To vassal, tenant, serf and all; Power laid…
Ballade of Christmas by Andrew Lang
Ballade of Christmas by Andrew Lang Between the moonlight and the fire In winter twilights long ago, What ghosts we raised for your desire, To make your merry blood run slow! How old, how grave, how wise we grow! No Christmas ghost can make us chill, Save those that troop in mournful row, The ghosts…
CHRISTMAS BELLS by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
CHRISTMAS BELLS by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on…
The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell
The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow, Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow ; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near, A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear ; Who,…
Winter In The Boulevard by D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) was an influential English writer, poet, and essayist. Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire,