Annunciation and Advent: Annunciation / Elizabeth Jennings --
Advent / Christina Rossetti --
Advent calendar / Gjertrud Schnackenberg --
Christmas Eve: Christmas Eve / Walter de la Mare
(From) In memoriam / Alfred Lord Tennyson --
Noel: Christmas Eve, 1913 / Robert Bridges --
Jest 'fore Christmas / Eugene Field --
A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Moore --
The Nativity: Upon Christ his birth / Sir John Suckling --
On the morning of Christs nativity / John Milton --
The Nativity / Henry Vaughn --
New Prince, new pomp / Robert Southwell --
The Nativity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ / Christopher Smart --
For the Nativity / John Heath-Stubbs --
Christmas / Stevie Smith --
Maid-servant at the inn / Dorothy Parker --
Joseph / G. K. Chesterton --
Mother of God / William Butler Yeats --
Shepherd's song at Christmas / Langston Hughes --
Three kings / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Journey of the Magi / T. S. Eliot --
Adoration of the kings / William Carlos Williams --
Three holy kings / Rainer Maria Rilke --
Carol of the three kings / W. S. Merwin --
Christmastide: Masque of Christmas / Ben Jonson --
True Christmas / Henry Vaughan --
Old Christmastide / Sir Walter Scott --
Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Christmas tree / Cecil Day-Lewis --
Our Christmas tree / Wendell Berry --
Meditations on Christmas: Christmas / George Herbert --
Burning babe / Robert Southwell --
'Savior must have been a docile gentleman'/ Emily Dickinson --
Christmas hymn / Richard Wilbur --
Christmas / John Frederick Nims --
Sonnets at Christmas / Allen Tate --
An old song ended / J. D. McClatchy --
Christmas poem / Dick Davis --
Illumination / Anthony Hecht --
Christmas crackers: Mahogany tree / William Makepeace Thackeray --
Christmas / John Betjeman --
Dark Christmas on Wildwood Road / Morris Bishop --
Lady selecting her Christmas cards / Phyllis McGinley --
City Christmas / Phyllis McGinley --
Office party / Phyllis McGinley --
Christmas ironies: Christmas is coming / Anthony Hecht --
House of Christmas / G. K. Chesterton --
Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
A Nativity / Rudyard Kipling --
Christmas trees / Geoffrey Hill --
Christmas card, after the assassinations / Mona Van Duyn --
Christmas in Biafra (1969) / Chinua Achebe --
Christmas ghost-story / Thomas Hardy --
Christmas in India / Rudyard Kipling --
Christmas sonnet / Edward Arlington Robinson --
A carol / Cecil Day-Lewis --
Christmas robin / Robert Graves --
Christmas songs and carols: Carol / Ben Jonson --
Ode of the birth of Our Saviour / Robert Herrick --
On Christmas day to my heart / Clement Paman --
Christmas carol / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --
(From) In memoriam / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
French Noel / William Morris --
Christus natus est / Countee Cullen --
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 --
Child this day is born --
To-morrow shall be my dancing day --
Green Grow'th the holly --
Twelve days of Christmas --
God rest you merry gentlemen --
Here we come a-wassailing --
After Christmas: (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.