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Introduction - i: Introduction Unit - 1: Christmas is Coming Poem - 1: Christmas is Coming - Traditional Poem - 2: A Christmas Blessing - Traditional Poem - 3: Now Thrice Welcome, Christmas - Traditional Poem - 4: Deck the Halls - Traditional Poem - 5: We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Traditional Poem - 6: Pudding Charms - Charlotte Druitt Cole Poem - 7: The Christmas Pudding - Traditional Poem - 8: Christmas Plum Pudding - Clifton Bingham Poem - 9: A Dish for a Poet - Traditional Poem - 10: Yule Log - Robert Herrick Poem - 11: Minstrels - William Wordsworth Poem - 12: Old Christmastide - Sir Walter Scott Poem - 13: December - John Clare Poem - 14: French Noel - William Morris Poem - 15: Wassail, Wassail - Traditional Poem - 16: Here We Come A-Wassailing - Traditional Poem - 17: Nowell Sing We - Traditional Unit - 2: I Sing of a Maiden Poem - 1: I Sing of a Maiden - Traditional Poem - 2: A Virgin Most Pure - Traditional Poem - 3: The Mother of God - W. B. Yeats Poem - 4: The Cherry Tree Carol - Traditional Poem - 5: Joseph - G. K. Chesterton Poem - 6: The Angel Gabriel - Traditional tr. Sabine Baring-Gould Poem - 7: Once in Royal David''s City - Cecil Frances Alexander Poem - 8: O Little Town of Bethlehem - Phillips Brooks Poem - 9: Away in a Manger - Traditional Poem - 10: The Old Hark - Traditional Poem - 11: Angels, from the Realms of Glory - James Montgomery Poem - 12: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Charles Wesley Poem - 13: A Hymn for Christmas Day - Traditional Poem - 14: Joy to the World! - Isaac Watts Poem - 15: In Dulci Jubilo - Traditional Poem - 16: Christmas, A Song of Joy at Dawn - Traditional Poem - 17: O Come, All Ye Faithful - Traditional tr. F. Oakeley and W. T. Brooke Unit - 3: Peace and Lullabies Poem - 1: Peace - Henry Vaughan Poem - 2: A Child this Day is Born - Traditional Poem - 3: Silent Night - Joseph Mohr tr. John Freeman Young Poem - 4: Christus Natus Est - Countee Cullen Poem - 5: On Christmas Day to My Heart - Clement Paman Poem - 6: An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour - Robert Herrick Section - 7: The House of Christmas - G. K. Chesterton Poem - 8: The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - Christopher Smart Poem - 9: New Prince, New Pomp - Robert Southwell Poem - 10: Past Three O''Clock - George Ratcliffe Woodward Poem - 11: Love Came Down at Christmas - Christina Rossetti Poem - 12: Before the Paling of the Stars - Christina Rossetti Poem - 13: The Coventry Carol - Traditional Poem - 14: A Cradle Song - William Blake Poem - 15: The Rocking Carol - Percy Dearmer Poem - 16: Infant Holy - Traditional tr. Edith M.G. Reed Poem - 17: Sing Lullaby - Sabine Baring-Gould Poem - 18: Welcome to Heaven''s King - Traditional Poem - 19: Hymn for Christmas Day - John Byrom Poem - 20: It Was on Christmas Day - Traditional Poem - 21: I Saw a Stable - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Unit - 4: Holly and Ivy Poem - 1: Holly - Christina Rossetti Poem - 2: Advent - Christina Rossetti Poem - 3: Green Grow''th the Holly - Traditional Poem - 4: Lo, How a Rose E''er Blooming - Traditional tr. Theodore Baker and Harriet R. K. Spaeth Poem - 5: The Mahogany Tree - William Makepeace Thackeray Poem - 6: The Holly and the Ivy - Traditional Poem - 7: The First Tree in the Greenwood - Traditional Unit - 5: Bird and Beasts Poem - 1: Eddi''s Service - Rudyard Kipling Poem - 2: The Oxen - Thomas Hardy Poem - 3: Sheep in Winter - John Clare Poem - 4: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks - Nahum Tate Poem - 6: Go, Tell it on the Mountain - Traditional Poem - 7: The Shepherds'' Carol - Traditional Poem - 8: Out in the Dark - Edward Thomas Poem - 9: Birds at Winter Nightfall - Thomas Hardy Poem - 10: Little Robin Redbreast - Traditional Unit - 6: Snow and Ice Poem - 1: Christmas Night - Traditional Poem - 2: The First Nowell - Traditional Poem - 3: Snow Storm - John Clare Poem - 4: See, Amid the Winter''s Snow - Edward Caswall Poem - 5: A Winter Night - William Barnes Section - 6: Winter Gerard - Manley Hopkins Poem - 7: Wi...
