Christmas - In Stories and Poetry

Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters are with us every day. Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas, seem amplified, we seem more tender to their touch, their words.In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.- 1 - Christmas. In Stories and in Poetry - An Introduction2 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott3 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow4 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson5 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson6 - Minstrels. A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth7 - Carol by Ben Jonson8 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge9 - A Christmas Carol by G K Chesterton10 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere11 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott12 - No Mercy Here by Daniel Sheehan13 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale14 - The Gift of the Magi by O Henry15 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow16 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick17 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton18 - Nativity by John Donne19 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart20 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan21 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling22 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan23 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling24 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky25 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi26 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell27 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell28 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan29 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats30 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson31 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick32 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan33 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy34 - The House of Christmas by G K Chesterton35 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe36 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore37 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens38 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti39 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson40 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox41 - Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson42 - In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti