Christmas Poems

With thanks, once again, to the members of the NewPoetry list who reminded us of some of the poems gathered here for your holiday reading & reflection:

• Robert Herrick,
  “Ceremonies for Christmas” (1648)
  
  
• Sir Walter Scott,
  “Christmas in the Olden Time” (from Marmion, 1808)
  
  
• Clement Clark Moore (attributed to him -- but more probably written by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.),
  “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (first published in 1823, likely written in 1808)
  
  
• Emily Dickinson,
  “’Twas just this time last year I died” (#140)
  
  
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
  “Christmas Bells” (1864)
  
  
• Christina Rossetti,
  “In the Bleak Midwinter” (1872)
  
  
• G.K. Chesterton,
  “A Christmas Carol” (1900)
  
  
• Sara Teasdale,
  “Christmas Carol” (1911)
  
  
• Walter de la Mare,
  “Mistletoe” (1913)
  
  
• Thomas Hardy,
  “The Oxen” (1915)
  
• Robert Frost,
  “Christmas Trees” (1920)