Christmas poems / selected and edited by John Hollander and J.D. McClatchy.

The Annunciation / Elizabeth Jennings
Advent / Christina Rossetti
Advent calendar / Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Christmas Eve / Walter de la Mare
Christmas Eve / Christina Rossetti
From In Memoriam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913 / Robert Bridges
The oxen / Thomas Hardy
Jest 'fore Christmas / Eugene Field
A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Moore
Upon Christ His birth / Sir John Suckling
On the morning of Christs nativity / John Milton
Nativity / John Donne
The nativity / Henry Vaughan
New Prince, new pomp / Robert Southwall
The nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ / Christopher Smart
For the nativity / John Heath-Stubbs
Christmas / Stevie Smith
The maid-servant at the inn / Dorothy Parker
Joseph / G. K. Chesterton
The mother of God / William Butler Yeats
Shepherd's song at Christmas / Langston Hughes
The three kings / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Journey of the magi / T.S. Eliot
The adoration of the kings / William Carlos Williams
The three holy kings / Rainer Maria Rilke
Carol of the chree kings / W.S. Merwin
The masque of Christmas / Ben Jonson
The true Christmas / Henry Vaughan
Old Christmastide / Sir Walter Scott
Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson
The Christmas tree / Cecil Day-Lewis
Our Christmas tree / Wendell Berry
December / John Clare
Christmas / George Herbert
The burning babe / Robert Southwell
"The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman' / Emily Dickinson
A Christmas Hymn / Richard Wilbur
Christmas / John Frederick Nims
Sonnets at Christmas / Allen Tate
An old song ended / J.D. McClatchy
A Christmas poem / Dick Davis
Illumination / Anthony Hecht
The mahogany tree / William Makepeace Thackeray
Christmas / John Betjeman
The dark Christmas on Wildwood Road / Morris Bishop
Lady selecting her Christmas cards / Phyllis McGinley
City Christmas / Phyllis McGinley
Office party / Phyllis McGinley
Christmas is coming / Anthony Hecht
The house of Christmas / G.K. Chesterton
Christmas Bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A nativity / Rudyard Kipling
Christmas trees / Geoffrey Hill
A Christmas card, after the assassinations / Mona Van Duyn
Christmas in Biafra (1969) / Chinua Achebe
A Christmas ghost-story / Thomas Hardy
Christmas in India / Rudyard Kipling
A Christmas sonnet / Edwin Arlington Robinson
A carol / Cecil Day-Lewis
The Christmas robin / Robert Graves
Carol / Ben Jonson
An ode of the birth of our Saviour / Robert Herrick
On Christmas day to my heart / Clement Paman
A Christmas carol / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From In Memoriam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
French Noel / William Morris
Christus natus est / Countee Cullen
A carol / Donald Hall
A lullaby / Janet Lewis
While Shepherds watched their flocks by night / Nahum Tate
Good King Wenceslas / J.M. Neale
O little town of Bethlehem / Bishop Phillips Brooks
We three kings / J.H. Hopkins
It came upon the midnight clear / Edmund Hamilton Sears
Silent Night / Joseph Mohr
Lo, how a rose e'er blooming
The cherry-tree carol
I saw three ships
I sing of a maiden
A child this day is born
To-morrow shall be my dancing day
Nowell sing we
The first Nowell
The holly and the ivy
Green grow'th the holly
The twelve days of Christmas
God rest you merry gentlemen
Wassail, wassail
Here we come a-wassailing
From For the time being / W.H. Auden
Untrimming the tree / John N. Morris
Burning the Christmas Greens / William Carlos Williams
New Year's eve / John Frederick Nims
New Year / Christopher Smart
New Year's day / Robert Lowell
New Year poem / Philip Larkin
Twelfth night / Phyllis McGinley
Twelfth night / Elinor Wylie
Epiphany / Robert Fitzgerald