Christmas Poetry, Prose and Recordings
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A Ballade Of Old Loves - Carolyn Wells (MP3 / OGG )
A Bedside Ditty - Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Bell - Clinton Scollard
A Carol - William Canton
A Carol for the Eve of St. Mary's Day - Thomas Evans (MP3 / OGG )
A Carol from Flanders - Frederick Niven (MP3 / OGG )
A Carol In The Pastures - Edward Bolton
A Child's Song Of Christmas - Marjorie L. C. Pickthall (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Carol - Christian Burke (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Carol - Samuel T. Coleridge (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Carol - Aubrey De Vere (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Carol - From "The Pickwick Papers," Charles Dickens (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Carol - Longfellow (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Carol - James Russell Lowell (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Carol For Children - Martin Luther (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Faggot - Alfred Gurney
A Christemasse Game - Thomas Wright
A Christmas Hymn - Anonymous (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Hymn - Alfred Dommett (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Hymn - Richard Watson Gilder (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Letter From Australia - Douglas Sladen (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Lullaby - John Addington Symonds (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas "Now" - George Wither
A Christmas Song - William Cox Bennett (MP3 / OGG )
A Christmas Song - Tudor Jenks (MP3 / OGG )
A Cradle Song - William Blake
A Cradle-Song Of The Virgin - Rev. H. R. Bramley
A Defective Santa Claus - James Whitcomb Riley
A Disputation Between Christ And The Human Form - Lawrence Housman (MP3 / OGG )
A Hint To The Fanatics - "Poor Robin's Almanac," 1711
A Hymn For The Epiphany - Richard Crashaw
A Hymn Of The Nativity - Richard Crashaw
A Lulling Song - Isaac Watts
A Merry Christmas - Frances Ridley Havergal (MP3 / OGG )
A Plea For A Present - Ben Jonson
A Rocking Hymn - George Wither
A Soldier's Silent Night - James M. Schmidt , alt.
A Song For A Christmas Tree - Louisa May Alcott
A Song of Joy at Dawn - Catherine Winkworth
A Spotless Rose - Catherine Winkworth
An Invitation To The Revel - Anonymous
An Offertory - Mary Mapes Dodge (MP3 / OGG )
An Old English Christmas-tide - H. S. M.
An Old Man's Christmas Morning - John Hartley
And They Laid Him In A Manger - Edward Sherburne
The Angel's Song - William Drummond
Another Christmas - Rev. W. M. Bell
The Approach of Christmas - John Gay
At Bethlehem - Sir Edwin Arnold
At Last - John Greenleaf Whittier
At The End Of The Feast - Anonymous
At The Sign Of The Christmas Tree - Pauline Frances Clamp
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Ballade Of Christmas Ghosts - Andrew Lang
Ban And Blessing - Anonymous
The Beautiful Mother - Adapted from the Latin of Jacopone da Todi (MP3 / OGG )
Beautiful Snow - John Whitaker Watson
The Bells - Edgar Allan Poe
Bells Across The Snows - Frances Ridley Havergal
Beware Of Egg-Nog: An 1817 Warning!
The Blooming Of The White Thorn - Edith Matilda Thomas (MP3 / OGG )
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind - William Shakespeare
The Burning Babe - Robert Southwell
By The Cradle-Side - William Blake
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Carol - Anonymous
Carol - William Canton
The Child Jesus In The Garden - Anonymous (MP3 / OGG )
Christ's Nativity - Henry Vaughan
Christmas - Rose Terry Cooke
Christmas - C. C. Cox
Christmas - Phoebe Cary
Christmas - George Herbert
Christmas - J. E. Pauley
Christmas Alms - Anonymous
Christmas at Melrose - Leslie Pinckney Hill (MP3 / OGG )
Christmas At Sea - Robert Louis Stevenson
Christmas At The Round Table - John Hookham Frere
Christmas Bells - Anonymous
Christmas Bells - Longfellow (MP3 / OGG )
Christmas Carol - James S. Park
Christmas Carol - From The Neopolitan (MP3 / OGG )
Christmas Comes But Once A Year - Thomas Miller
Christmas Day - Samuel Rickards
Christmas Day (For Dolly) - John Byrom
Christmas Eve - Mathilde Blind
Christmas Eve - Robert Browning
The Christmas Holly - Eliza Cook
Christmas Husbandly Fare - Thomas Tusser
Christmas In 1875 - William Cullen Bryant
Christmas In The Olden Time - Walter Scott
Christmas Is Come - Virginia Almanack, 1765
Christmas Is Come - Albert Smith
Christmas Minstrelsy - William Wordsworth
Christmas Morning - Edward Moxon
The Christmas of 1888 - John Greenleaf Whittier
Christmas of Old - Thos. Kirchmaier
Christmas Omnipresent - Leigh Hunt
Christmas Past And Present - "Poor Robin's Almanac," 1739
Christmas Provender - Anonymous
Christmas Roses - Lizzie Lawson and Robert Ellice Mack
The Christmas Silence - Margaret Deland
Christmas Song - Lydia A. C. Ward
Christmas Sunshine - Anonymous
Christmas Tide - Eliza Cook
Christmas Time - John Clare
Christmas Time - Eliza Cook
Christmas Time Has Come Again - Anonymous
Christmas Toys - Anonymous
The Christmas Tree - Anonymous
Christmas Trees - Robert Frost
Christmas Verses - Teresa Brayton
Christmas, His Masque - Ben Jonson
Christmass Is Come And Every Hearth - John Clare
The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (LV2006 )
Coventry Mysteries: Ludus_Coventriæ - The Mysteries Presented at Coventry on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Halliwell's Edition of 1841
Church Bells - John Keble
Church-Decking At Christmas - William Wordsworth
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The Death of the Old Year - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
December - Harriet F. Blodgett
December - Eliza Cook
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The Earthly Paradise: Apology - William Morris
The Epic - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Eve Of Christmas - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
THE EXAMINATION AND Tryal of Old Father Christmas - Josiah King
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Fairy Faces - Anonymous
The Faerie Queen - Edmund Spencer
The_Fire_on_the_Hearth_in_Sleepy_Hollow - Edward Hopper
The First Christmas Without My Mother - George Washington Doane
The First Roman Christmas - Alfred H. Domett
From Heaven Above To Earth I Come - Winkworth Translation of Martin Luther (MP3 / OGG )
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Gates and Doors - Joyce Kilmer
Gentle Men - W. M. Thackeray
Given Back On Christmas Morn - Thomas Hood
Glee And Solace - Anonymous
God Bless Us Every One - James Whitcomb Riley
Good-Night - H. S. M.
The Good Old Times - "Poor Robin's Almanac," 1709
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Hail To The Lord's Anointed - James Montgomery
Hang Up The Baby's Stocking - Emily Huntington Miller
The Haughty Aspen - Nora Archibald Smith (MP3 / OGG )
He Came All So Still - Anonymous (MP3 / OGG )
His Mother's Joy - John White Chadwick
The Holly Berry - Thomas Miller
Holly Song - William Shakespeare
The Holly Tree - Robert Southey
The Holy Innocents - Laurence Housman
The Holy Night - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (MP3 / OGG )
The Holy Well - Anonymous
How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been - William Shakespeare
Hush! My Dear - Isaac Watts
Hymn For Christmas - Felicia Hemans
Hymn For Christmas-Day - Jeremy Taylor
Hymn For Christmas Day - Prudentius
Hymn For The Epiphany - Prudentius
Hymn For The Nativity - Edward Thring
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I Cannot Tell - William Young Fullerton
If Christmas Day On The Sunday Be - Anonymous
Il Penseroso - Milton
In Bethlehem - James Ryman
It Was The Winter Wilde - John Milton On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity)
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King Arthur's Waes-hael - Robert Stephen Hawker
The King In The Cradle - From Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets, etc.
King Olaf's Christmas - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
King Winter - Anonymous
The Knighting Of The Sirloin Of Beef By Charles The Second - Anonymous
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The Lamb - William Blake
Labour's Reward - "Poor Robin's Almanac," 1728
Led By A Star - Joyce Kilmer
Light In The Darkness - Norval Clyne
The Little Gray Lamb - Archibald Beresford Sullivan (MP3 / OGG )
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor - Child Ballad #73
Lordings, All Of You I Warn - Anonymous
Lullaby In Bethlehem - Henry Howarth Bashford
Ludus_Coventriæ - The Mysteries Presented at Coventry on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Halliwell's Edition of 1841
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The Magi - Y. B. Yeats (MP3 / OGG )
The Mahogany Tree - William Makepeace Thackeray
Maids, Get Up And Bake Your Pies - From the Bishoprick Garland, 1834
Mary's Baby - Shaemas O'Sheel
Merry Christmas - Louisa May Alcott
Merry Christmas, My Friend - James M. Schmidt
Merry Souls - Anonymous
Messiah - Alexander Pope
Minstrels And Maids - William Morris
The Mistletoe - Barry Cornwall
The Mistletoe - "Fraser's Magazine," 1835
Mumming from "La Musa Madrigalesca"
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Nativity - John Donne
The Nativity - W. J. Blew
Neighbors of the Christ Night - Nora Archibald Smith
The News-Bearers - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
November - Elizabeth Stoddard
Now Christmas Comes 'Tis Fit That We - From "Poor Robin's Almanac," 1715
Now Enter Christmas Like A Man - From "Poor Robin's Almanac," 1701Nunc Dimittis - John Cennick
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O Holy Night - Thos. C. Roney
Ode To Winter - Thomas Campbell
Of Christ's Birth In An Inn - Jeremy Taylor
Of The Epiphany - Beaumont
The Old Cap - Martin Parker
Old Christmas - John Bridgeman
Old Christmas Returned - Anonymous
On Christmas - John Bampfylde
On Lending a Punch-Bowl - Oliver Wendell Holmes
On Love - Bliss Carman
On Oaten Pipes - Anonymous
On Saint John's Day - Anonymous
On Shepherds' Pipes - William Drummond
On The Morning of Christ's Nativity - John Milton
On the Nativity of Christ - William Dunbar
Out Of The Blossom Sprang A Thorn - English Traditional
The Oxen - Thomas Hardy (MP3 / OGG )
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Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Peaceful Night - John Milton (MP3 / OGG )
Pipe-Playing - Anonymous
Praise of Christmas - Anonymous
Provide For Christmas - From Poor Robin's Almanac, 1664
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Regrets - William Wordsworth (MP3 / OGG )
Ring Out, Wild Bells - Alfred, Lord Tennyson (MP3 / OGG )
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Saint John Baptist - William Drummond
Santa Claus - Anonymous
Sery - Richard Watson Gilder
The Shepherds - Henry Vaughan
The Shepherds In Judea - Mary Austin
The Shepherd's Song - Drummond
Signs of Christmas - Edwin Lees
Sly Santa Claus - Mrs. C. S. Stone
Son Of A Virgin - Laurence Housman
Song Of The Holly - William Shakespeare
The Song Of A Shepherd-Boy At Bethlehem - Josephine Preston Peabody (MP3 / OGG )
The Sovereign - Martin Peerson
The Star Bearer - Edmund Clarence Stedman (MP3 / OGG )
The Star Of The East - Author Unknown
The Story Of The Holly Sprig - Arthur Upson
Summer Toil, And Winter Cheer - "Poor Robin's Almanac," 1724
Sung By The Shepherd - Anonymous
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This Is Now Is The Winter Time - Goodwyn Barmby
The Three Damsels - Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Three Kings - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To A Lady - Thomas William Parsons
To An Old Fogey - Sir Owen Seaman
Thrice Welcome! - Anonymous
The Trencherman - Anonymous
Tryste Noel - Louise Imogen Guiney (MP3 / OGG )
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
The Two Advents - George Washington Doane
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Under The Holly Bough - Charles MacKay
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The Virgin Mary - Laurence Housman
The Virgin Mary To The Child Jesus - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Waits - Margaret Deland
Wassail - "Ainsworth's Magazine," 1848
Wassailing Song - From Bullen, A Christmas Garland
Welcome, Friend! St Nicholas, Welcome - From "The Festival Of St. Nicholas," Mary Mapes Dodge
When Skies Were Blue - From Bullen, A Christmas Garland
When Snow Lies Deep
When The Herds Were Watching - William Canton
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night - Margaret Deland
Whispering Palms - Lope de Vega
Winter - William Shakespeare
Winter's Delights - Thomas Campion
The Wise Men Of The East - A. Mary F. Robinson
Wreaths - Carolyn Hillman
Other Christmas Poetry
A Visit from St. Nicholas - Attributed to Clement Clarke Moore (Text) Read by Douglas Anderson: MP3 / OGG
Illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith: Twas The Night Before Christmas, by Clement C. Moore.
A Visit From Saint Nicholas, by Clement C. Moore.
Christmas Poetry From Robert Herrick
A Christmas Carol (First Line: "What sweeter music can we bring") A Hymn To The Lares - Robert Herrick
A New Year's Gift - Robert Herrick
An Ode Of The Birth Of Our Saviour - Robert Herrick
The Bell-Man - Robert Herrick Come Bring The Noise )Come, Guard This Night )Come, Guard This Night the Christmas Pie Down With The Rosemary, And So )Down With The Rosemary and Bays )Candlemas Eve Carol Kindle The Christmas Brand )Give Way, Give Way, Ye Gates, And Win (A Wassail ) Tell Us, Thou Cleere And Heavenly Tongue (Also known as The Star Song )
True Hospitality - Robert Herrick
Twelfth Night, or King and Queen (Now, Now, The Mirth Comes )Partly Work and Partly Play )The Wassail - Robert Herrick
The Wassail Bowl - Robert Herrick
See also: Christmas Customs from Hesperides by Robert Herrick Ceremonies For Christmas Another To The Maids and Another )The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick
Christmas Poetry From Eugene Field
Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse - Eugene Field
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Bethlehem-Town - Eugene Field
Christmas Eve - Eugene Field
Christmas Hymn - Eugene Field
Christmas Morning - Eugene Field
Chrystmasse Of Olde - Eugene Field
Jest 'Fore Christmas - Eugene Field
Star Of The East - Eugene Field
The Three Kings Of Cologne - Eugene Field
See Also
A Little Book of Profitable Tales - Eugene Field (Prose)
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Christmas Poetry from Gilbert Keith (G. K.) Chesterton
A Christmas Carol - G. K. Chesterton (MP3 / OGG )
The Feast In The Snow - G. K. Chesterton
Gold Leaves - G. K. Chesterton
The House of Christmas - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Wise Men - G. K. Chesterton
Christmas Poetry from Anne P. L. Field
A Christmas Insurrection - Anne P. L. Field (MP3 / OGG )
A Prayer At Bethlehem - Anne P. L. Field (MP3 / OGG )
The Christmas Fires - Anne P. L. Field (MP3 / OGG )
The Night After Christmas - Anne P. L. Field
When The Stars Of Morning Sang - Anne P. L. Field
Excerpts from "Christmas" by Romaine Joseph Thorne Christmas Eve
The Christmas Carol
Christmas Sports
Evergreen-Decking At Christmas
The Christmas Box
The Christmas Feast
Christmas Poetry by Henry Van Dyke
A Ballad Of Santa Clause
Christmas Tears
To The Child Jesus
The Foolish Fir-Tree
Harold Macdonald's - poems from the eighth decade Opens in a new window at an external site.
Narrative Poetry for Advent by John Piper Opens in a new window at an external site.
Christmas Poetry by Agatha Weeks:
Keep Christ In Christmas - New
Twas The Night Before Christmas
Silver Bells and Golden Memories
New For 2007 - Christmas Memories Copyright: Agatha Weeks.
Other Poetry Collections
Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England - Robert Bell (1857) (Text)
Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England - Robert Bell (PDF)
Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England - James Henry Dixon (alt.)
Harrison S. Morris In The Yule-Log Glow, Book 3, Christmas Poems From 'Round The World. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book 4, Christmas Poems From 'Round The World.
Mr. Morris also edited two volumes of Christmas Prose; see below.
Collections of Christmas Poetry
Poems of Christmas by Katherine Lee Bates
Christmas-tide Poetry of Emily Elizabeth Steele Elliott
Father Andrew's Carols And Christmas Rhymes
Christmas-tide Poetry of John Keble
Christmastide Poems of Christina Rossetti
Christmas Poetry of Catherine Winkworth
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A Budget of Christmas Tales - Charles Dickens and Others
A Christmas Accident - Annie Eliot Trumbull
A Christmas Garland - Max Beerbohm
A Christmas Mumming, 1377
A Christmas Mystery - William J Locke
A Christmas Posy - Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
A Christmas Sermon - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Christmas Story - Dr. Samuel W. Francis
A Little Book for Christmas - Cyrus Townsend Brady
A Little Book of Profitable Tales - Eugene Field
A Lover In Homespun and Other Stories - F. Clifford Smith
A Napa Christchild - Charles A. Gunnison
A Reversible Santa Claus - Meredith Nicholson
A Versailles Christmas-Tide - Mary Stuart Boyd
A Wonderful Night-An Interpretation Of Christmas - James H Snowden
An Ordinance For The Better Observation Of The Feast Of The Nativity Of Christ - Parliament, 1644
And Thus He Came - Cyrus Townsend Brady
The Arraignment, Conviction, and Imprisonment Of Christmas - 1645
As We Were Saying - Charles Dudley Warner
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Beasley's Christmas Party - Booth Tarkington
Becky's Christmas Dream - Louisa May Alcott
The Bee-Man of Orn - Frank R. Stockton
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
Betty's Bright Idea - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Birds' Christmas Carol - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Blossoming Rod - Mary Stewart Cutting
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories - Franklin K. Mathiews
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove - Laura Lee Hope
The Burglar and the Blizzard - Alice Duer Miller
By the Christmas Fire - Samuel McChord Crothers
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Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains - Stella M. Francis
Candle and Crib - Katherine Frances Purdon
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories - Edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M Skinner
Chimney-pot Papers - Charles S. Brooks
Christian Gellert's Last Christmas - Berthold Auerbach
Christmas - Zona Gale
Christmas, A Happy Time - Alicia Catherine Mant
The Christmas Angel - Abbie Farwell Brown
The Christmas Banquet - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Christmas Books - W M Thackeray
The Christmas Child - Hesba Stretton
Christmas Comes But Once A Year - Luke Limner
Christmas Entertainments - Alice Maude Kellogg
Christmas Eve at Swamp's End - Norman Duncan
Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories - John Fox Jr.
Christmas Every Day And Other Stories - William Dean Howells (LV2006 )
The Christmas Fairy - John Strange Winter and Others
Christmas Holidays at Merryvale - Alice Hale Burnett
Christmas in Legend and Story - Elva S. Smith
The Christmas Kalends of Provence - Thomas A. Janvier
Christmas Light - Ethel Calvert Phillips
The Christmas Miracle - Charles Egbert Craddock (pen name of Mary Noailles Murfree)
Christmas Outside of Eden - Coningsby Dawson
Christmas Revived - Anne W. Abbot
The Christmas Story From David Harum - Edward Noyes Westcott
Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse - Eugene Field
Christmas with Grandma Elsie - Martha Finley
Christmas, His Masque - Ben Jonson
Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman - F. Hopkinson Smith.
Colonel Crockett's Co-operative Christmas - Rupert Hughes
Corporal Sam and Other Stories - A T Quiller-Couch
Curlytops and Their Playmates - Howard R. Garis
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Dear Santa Claus—Charming Holiday Stories for Boys and Girls - Fannie E. Ostrander and anonymous
Dreamthorp - Alexander Smith
Duffels - Edward Eggleston
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8_Best Russian Short Stories
8_Short_Stories - C Alphonso Smith
Evenings at Donaldson Manor - Maria J. McIntosh
The Examination And Tryal of Old Father Christmas - Josiah King
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The Feast of St Friend - Arnold Bennett
Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock (LV2006 )
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The Ghost - Wm. D. O'Connor
The Goblins' Christmas - Elizabeth Anderson
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Heretics - G K Chesterton
Holiday Tales - W. H. H. Murray
Home_Scenes_and_Home_Influence - T_S_Arthur
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I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales - Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
In Happy Valley - John Fox
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Jimsy, The Christmas Kid - Leona Dalrymple
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Labrador Days - Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl - Jenny Wren
Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land and other Stories - Ellis Towne, Sophie May and Ella Farman
Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock (LV2006 )
The Little City Of Hope - F Marion Crawford
The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation - Annie Fellows Johnston
Little Maid Marian - Amy E. Blanchard.
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The Magic Egg and Other Stories - Frank Richard Stockton
The Man Without a Country and Other Tales - Edward E. Hale
The Mouse and the Christmas Cake - Anonymous
The Mouse and the Moonbeam - Eugene Field
The Moving Finger - Mary Gaunt
Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation - Bret Harte
Mr. Kris Kringle - S. Weir Mitchell
Mrs. Budlongs Christmas Presents - Rupert Hughes
Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories by Bret Harte (LV2006 )
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Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays - Annie Roe Carr
News from the Duchy - Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Nibsy's Christmas - Jacob A. Riis
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The Old Peabody Pew - Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
On Christmas Day in the Morning - Grace S. Richmond
On Christmas Day In The Evening - Grace Louise Smith Richmond
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Paste Jewels - John Kendrick Bangs
Patty's Success - Carolyn Wells
Peace On Earth, Good-Will to Dogs - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The Potato Child & Others - Mrs. Charles J Woodbury
Prince Lazybones and Other Stories - Mrs. W. J. Hays
Punch Among the Planets, Christmas 1890
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Reginald - Saki (H H Munro) (LV2006 )
Rídan the Devil and Other Stories - Louis Becke
The Romance of a Christmas Card - Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rosa's Tale - Louisa May Alcott
Rosemary - C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
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Santa Claus and the Babe - William Canton
Second Landing - Floyd Wallace
Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess - Anna Benneson McMahan
Shapes That Haunt the Dusk - Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden
Short_Stories_for_English_Courses
Sonny, A Christmas Guest - Ruth McEnery Stuart
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories - Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Taken Alive - E P Roe
The Thin Santa Claus by Ellis Parker Butler (LV2006 )
The Toys of Peace - Saki
Trifles for the Christmas Holidays - H. S. Armstrong
The Truce of God - Mary Roberts Rinehart
Two Christmas Celebrations - Theodore Parker
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The Upas Tree - Florence L Barclay
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The Vindication of the Solemnity of the Nativity of Christ - Thomas Warmstry (1648)
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Weapons of Mystery - Joseph Hocking
When the Yule Log Burns - Leona Dalrymple
The White Christmas and Other Merry Christmas Plays - Walter Ben Hare
Winter Adventures of Three Boys - Egerton R. Young
The Witch - Anton Chekhov
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Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration - Leona Dalrymple
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Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus - Francis Pharcellus Church (LV2006 )
Young Lucretia and Other Stories - Mary E. Wilkins
Other Christmas Prose
Christmas Prose from Charles Dickens
A Christmas Dinner From Sketches By Boz - 1836
A Good Humoured Christmas From Pickwick Papers - 1837
A Christmas Carol - 1843 (Illustrations by John Leech)
A Christmas Carol - 1843 (Illustrations by Arthur Rackham)
A Christmas Carol - 1843 (Illustrations by George Alfred Williams)
The Chimes - 1844
The Cricket On The Hearth - 1845
The Battle of Life - 1846
The Haunted Man - 1847
The Holly Tree - 1851
Some Christmas Stories (Text version of six short stories between 1850 and 1853; PDF Version: Some Christmas Stories
Sketches of Young Gentlemen
For the dates of other Dickens Christmas stories, see Dickens: The Man Who Invented Christmas Link opens in a new window at an external site.
Christmas Prose from Washington Irving
Old Christmas (HTML; illustrations by Randolph Caldecott)Old Christmas (PDF, Illustrated; Source: Internet Archive )
Bracebridge Hall
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
Knickerbocker's History of New York
Other Prose from Washington Irving
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey - Irving
Christmas Prose from Louisa May Alcott
A Christmas Dream, And How It Came True
The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treherne's Temptation - (A M Barnard )
Becky's Christmas Dream - Louisa May Alcott
Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories
Rosa's Tale - Louisa May Alcott
Tilly's Christmas - Louisa May Alcott
Works which contain Christmas Prose from L. Frank Baum
The Christmas Stocking (LV2006 )
A Kidnapped Santa Claus (LV2006 )
Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (LV2006 )
Mother Goose in Prose by L. Frank Baum (LV2006 )
Harrison S. Morris In The Yule-Log Glow, Book 1, Christmas Tales From 'Round The World. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book 2, Christmas Tales From 'Round The World
Works which contain Christmas Prose from O. Henry Roads Of Destiny The Four Million The Gift Of The Magi Heart of the West Rolling Stones Whirligigs
Christmas Prose from B. J. Pearce
A Gift For Patootie
The Emissary
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Works which contain Christmas Prose from Henry Van Dyke
The Lost Word - Christmas Stories
The Blue Flower
The First Christmas Tree
The_Mansion_-_Henry_VanDyke
The Sad Shepherd
The Spirit of Christmas
"The Story of the Other Wise Men," Henry Van Dyke:
16291- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Story of the Other Wise Man
19608- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Story of the Other Wise Man
Prose by Laura Lee Hope
The Story of a Nodding Donkey
Six Little Bunkers at Grandpa Ford's
The Story of a Stuffed Elephant
Prose from John Milton
Areopagitica - Milton
Il Penseroso - Milton
Paradise Lost - Milton
Poetical Works - Milton
Prose from Lucy Maud Montgomery
Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
Short Stories 1905 To 1906
Short Stories 1909 To 1922
Prose by Thomas Nelson Page
The Burial of the Guns
The Christmas Peace
Santa Claus's Partner
Tommy Trot’s Visit to Santa Claus
Plays by Shepherd Knapp
Down the Chimney - Shepherd Knapp
Up the Chimney - Shepherd Knapp
The Christmas Dinner - Shepherd Knapp
Other Christmas Literature
A Little Book for Christmas - Cyrus Townsend Brady (1917)
A Righte Merrie Christmasse!!! - John Ashton (1894)
Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England - Robert Bell (1857) (Text)
Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England - Robert Bell (PDF)
Another Easy Christmas Book - Ruth Putnam Kimball (PDF, Illustrated; Source: Internet Archive )
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories - Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations - William Francis Dawson (1902)
Christmas: Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse - Robert Haven Schauffler (1907; from the Our American Holidays series; PDF, Illustrated; Source: Internet Archive )
Christmas Entertainments - Alice Maude Kellogg (Text )
Christmas In Legend And Story - Elva S. Smith and Alice I. Hazeltine (1915)
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan - Clement A. Miles (1912)
Christmas Stories And Legends - Phebe A. Curtiss (1916) (Text )
The Doré Gallery of Bible Illustrations - Gustave Doré (1891)
Folk Lore of East Yorkshire - John Nicholson (1890)
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - Alban ButlerJanuary-February-March (1895)
Holiday Stories for Young People - Margaret E. Sangster
Myths and Legends of Christmastide - Bertha F. Herrick
The Night Before Christmas and Other Popular Stories For Children - Anonymous
Our Holidays: Their Meaning and Spirit - from St. Nicholas Magazine
Traditions, Superstitions, and Folklore - Charles Hardwick (1872)
Yule-Tide in Many Lands - Mary P. Pringle and Clara A. Urann (1916)
Christmas-tide Sermons
Advent Sermons
Christmas Sermons
Epiphany Sermons
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Bibles King James Version - Version 1King James Version - Version 2The Apocrypha (Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible)
Douay-Rheims - Complete (Challoner Revision, 5773 KB)Douay-Rheims: Old Testament - Volume 1 Douay-Rheims: Old Testament - Volume 2 Douay-Rheims: New Testament
Study of the King James Bible - Cleland Boyd McAfee (1912)
Forbidden Gospels and Epistles - Archbishop William Wake
Hymns and Hymnology
The Hymns of Martin Luther
Hymns and Spiritual Songs - Isaac Watts (1707)
Divine Songs - Isaac Watts (1715)
Psalms of David - Isaac Watts (1719)
A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing - Robert Bridges (1901)
Hymns for Christian Devotion - Adams & Chapin (1853)
The Otterbein Hymnal - Edmund Lorenz (1892)
Story of the Hymns and Tunes - Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth (1906)
At Project Gutenberg
Musical instruction and study, Composition Music Bookshelf The Sheet Music Project
Works of William Hone
Ancient Mysteries Described
The Everyday Book - Volume 1
The Everyday Book - Volume 2
The Everyday Book - Volume 3
William Hone - His Life And Times - Frederick William Hackwood (1912)
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On this site: The Every Day Book - William Hone
Latin Studies
Latin for Beginners - Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1911)
New Latin Grammar - Charles E. Bennett (1895, 1908, 1918)
Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader - John Kirtland (1903)
The Roman Pronunciation of Latin - Frances Ellen Lord
A_Latin_English_Dictionary-Thomas Hewitt Key (1888)
See also The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year , Rev. John Keble (1827)
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Carol Services
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Carol Services -Generally
Edward P. Mason, Two Responsive Carol Services Responsive Christmas Carol Service for Sabbath SchoolsEchoes of Glory . LaFayette, IN: The Echo Music Co., 1888. A Christmas Programme - 1888 .Richard R. Chope, Carols For Use In Church London: William Clowes & Sons, The Complete Edition, 1894: Six Carol Services for Christmas . Chope also had two services for Easter and three services for Harvest.The Child Jesus (Medford, MA, prior to 1892). One of several carols services written by Rev. Hutchins, one other of which was a Christmas service, The Christ Child , which I have been unable to locate. A Festival Service of Nine Lessons And Appropriate Music . London: Oxford University Press, 1934. Based on the Christmas-tide A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, this service was adapted by the Winchester Diocesan Choral Association to embrace all the seasons of the Church's year. Carol Service, 1947 (from a handwritten note in the back of my copy of Shaw and Dearmer, The English Carol Book , Combined Edition, 1938)
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Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Preface and Stave 1 (Read by Mark Bradford)
Stave 2 (Read by Kara Shallenberg)
Stave 3 (Read by Kristen McQuillin)
Stave 4 (Read by Hugh McGuire)
Stave 5 (Read by Bill Stackpole)LibriVox
From the Hallmark Hall of Fame, 1954, Read by Lionel Barrymore Internet Archive
Charles Dickens, The Cricket On The Hearth
O Henry, The Gift Of The Magi
Read by Betsy Bush (From Gift of the Magi )
Read by Roy Schreiber (From The Four Million by O. Henry )
Read by JB (From Christmas Short Works Collection 2006 )
Read by SDM (From Christmas Short Works Collection 2006 )
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Washington Irving, Old Christmas
Christmas (Read by Alex Foster)
The Stage Coach (Read by Kara Shallenberg)
Christmas Eve (Read by Kristen McQuillin
Christmas Day (Read by Mark Bradford)
Christmas Dinner (Read by Kara Shallenberg)
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Attributed to Clement Clarke Moore A Visit From St. Nicholas - Attributed to Clement Clarke Moore Recordings by Fernashes and JemmaBlythe
Source: LibriVox : Christmas Short Works Collection 2006 T'was The Night Before Christmas .
Merry Christmas, My Friend - James M. Schmidt
Recorded by Father Ted Berndt under the title "A Soldier's Silent Night"MP3 / WMA Source: A Soldier's Silent Night , http://www.soldiersilentnight.com/ (Accessed Dec. 28, 2006)
Also from LibriVox :
Christmas Short Works Collection 2006 Public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a variety of LibriVox members. Christmas Short Works Collection 2007 Containing public domain short stories, essays, poems recorded by a variety of LibriVox members.
Christmas Carol Collection 2006 A dozen traditional Christmas carols performed by LibriVox volunteers. Selections From The Holy Bible
Search for "Christmas " at LibriVox.
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"Christmas For Ever" by John GilbertChristmas In Art And Song . New York: The Arundel Printing and Publishing Company, 1879.
"Christmas In Art and Song" by G. PerkinsChristmas In Art And Song .
"Christmas In Art" by John A. HowsChristmas In Art And Song .
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