Christmas Poems

Welcome to our Christmas poems! Curl up fireside as we present a merry mix of holiday poems both classic and cutting-edge to fill your heart with good cheer this Yuletide season. From time-honored verses to ones penned by emerging poets, these festive rhymes capture the magical spirit of Christmas.

Start off by reminiscing with Alfred Lord Tennyson’s nostalgic “In Memoriam A.H.H.” and Robert Louis Stevenson’s beloved seafaring “Christmas At Sea.” Recite Tennyson’s bold traditional ode “Ring Out, Wild Bells” as we welcome the coming new year. Feel the wonder of Christmas night in Thomas Hardy’s pastoral “The Oxen.”

Transition to contemporary voices like Shweta Garg’s wintery “Snow Starved” and Lori Lipsky’s vivid “A Snow Day Hue” before getting swept up in Clement Clarke Moore’s iconic “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.” We’ve included Grace Curtis’ charming contemporary ode to the Christmas tree itself as well.

Reflect on the deeper meaning of the holiday with classics like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s resonant “Christmas Bells” and Robert Southwell’s moving “The Burning Babe” alongside D.H. Lawrence’s modernist “Winter in the Boulevard.”

This collection of both age-old and newly penned yuletide rhymes captures all that’s magical about poetry and Christmas! We’ll keep adding to the lineup, but for now curl up by the fire and enjoy our holly jolly selections.

• The Magi by William Butler Yeats
• Christmas Comes Again by Elizabeth Stoddard
• Christmas Greetings by Lewis Carroll
• from: In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
• Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Oxen by Thomas Hardy
• Thanksgiving Day by Lydia Maria Child
• Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore
• Ode to the Christmas Tree by Grace Curtis
• Snow starved by Shweta Garg
• A Snow Day Hue by Lori Lipsky
• A Christmas Carol by James Russell Lowell
• Christmas in the Olden Time by Walter Scott
• Ballade of Christmas by Andrew Lang
• CHRISTMAS BELLS by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell
• Winter In The Boulevard by D.H. Lawrence