Christmas / Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse

CONTENTS

NOTE
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
I ORIGIN
Is There a Santa Claus?	F.P. Church
O Little Town of Bethlehem	Phillips Brooks
The Glad Evangel	Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Shepherds	William Drummond
A Christmas Carol	James Russell Lowell
A Christmas Hymn	Alfred Domett
Sons of the Morning	Reginald Heber
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen	Dinah Maria Mulock
The Christmas Silence	Margaret Deland
A Christmas Lullaby	John Addington Symonds
Hymn for the Nativity	Edward Thring
Masters in this Hall	Anonymous
The Adoration of the Wise Men	Cecil Frances Alexander
The Shepherds in Judea	Mary Austin
Christmas Carol	James S. Park
Neighbors of the Christ Night	Nora Archibald Smith
Cradle Hymn	Isaac Watts
An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour	Robert Herrick
Christmas Song	Edmund Hamilton Sears
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour	Ben Jonson
The Shepherd's Song	Edmund Bolton
A Christmas Carol	Aubrey de Vere
A Christmas Hymn	Anon
Christmas Day	Charles Wesley
Christmas	Anonymous
Christmas	Nahum Tate
"While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night"	Margaret Deland
Colonial Christmases	Alice Morse Earle
The Angels	William Drummond
Hymn for Christmas	Felicia Hemans
New Prince, New Pomp	Robert Southwell
The Three Kings	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hymn on the Nativity	John Milton
II CELEBRATION
Christmas Eve at Mr. Wardle's	Charles Dickens
A Visit from St. Nicholas	Clement C. Moore
A Christmas Piece	Fred S. Cozzens
Wassailer's Song	Robert Southwell
Christmas Eve	Hamilton Wright Mabie
Christmas In The Olden Time	Walter Scott
Sly Santa Claus	Mrs. C.S. Stone
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