Christmas in Poetry

CONTENTS

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

FROM FAR AWAY

LORDINGS, LISTEN TO OUR LAY

’TWAS JOLLY, JOLLY WAT

BOOTS AND SADDLES

CAROL

THE NEIGHBORS OF BETHLEHEM

CAROL OF THE RUSSIAN CHILDREN

SIGNS OF CHRISTMAS

A CHRISTMAS HYMN

CHRISTMAS

THE STORY OF THE SHEPHERD

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

THE GOLDEN CAROL (Of Melchior, Balthazar, and Caspar, the Three Kings)

CHRISTMAS EVE

CAROL OF THE BIRDS

THE SHEPHERDS HAD AN ANGEL

SONG OF A SHEPHERD BOY AT BETHLEHEM

THE LEAST OF CAROLS

NATIVITY SONG

THE CHRISTMAS SILENCE

BRING A TORCH, JEANETTE, ISABELLA!

CHRISTMAS FOLKSONG

AS JOSEPH WAS A-WALKING

CRADLE HYMN

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

CAROL

A CHILD’S PRESENT TO HIS CHILD-SAVIOUR

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

THE SHEPHERD WHO STAYED

GOOD KING WENCESLAS

WE THREE KINGS

GOD REST YE, MERRY GENTLEMEN

THE WASSAIL SONG

WASSAILER’S SONG

CAROL IN PRAISE OF THE HOLLY AND IVY (Holly and Ivy Made a Great Party)

CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS

CHRISTMAS EVE—ANOTHER CEREMONY

ANOTHER TO THE MAIDS

OUR JOYFUL FEAST