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_
The Waits............................. _Margaret Deland_
The Knighting of the Sirloin.......... _Anonymous_
The Christmas Goose at the Cratchits'. _Charles Dickens_
God Bless Us Every One................ _James Whitcomb Riley_
Bells Across the Snow................. _Frances Ridley Havergal_
Christmas Bells....................... _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_
Minstrels and Maids................... _William Morris_
Inexhaustibility of the
Subject of Christmas................ _Leigh Hunt_
Song of the Holly..................... _William Shakespeare_
Under the Holly-Bough................. _Charles Mackay_
Ceremonies for Christmas.............. _Robert Herrick_
Santa Claus........................... _Anonymous_
The Ceremonies for Christmas Day...... _Robert Herrick_
December.............................. _Harriet F. Blodgett_
The Festival of St. Nicholas.......... _Mary Mapes Dodge_
The Christmas Holly................... _Eliza Cook_
To the Fir-Tree....................... _From the German_
The Mahogany-Tree..................... _William Makepeace Thackeray_
Christmas............................. _Washington Irving_
Church Decking at Christmas........... _William Wordsworth_
So, Now is Come Our Joyful'st Feast... _George Wither_
Fairy Faces........................... _Anonymous_
Merry Christmas....................... _Anonymous_
A Merry Christmas to You.............. _Theodore Ledyard Cuyler_
Christmas Bells....................... _Anonymous_
The Birth of Christ................... _Alfred Tennyson_
The Christmas Carol................... _William Wordsworth_
Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse..... _Charles Dickens_
Christmas Bells....................... _John Keble_
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SIGNIFICANCE AND SPIRIT
A Christmas Carmen.................... _John G. Whittier_
The Spirit Of Christmas............... _Charles Dickens_
On Good Wishes at Christmas........... _Friswell_
A Christmas Song...................... _William Cox Bennett_
Sery.................................. _Richard Watson
