The Christmas Gospels -- The rescue / Cleveland Amory -- The fir tree / Hans Christian Andersen -- St. Stephen was a clerk ; I saw three ships / Anonymous -- The ghost of Christmas Eve / J.M. Barrie -- The white road / E.F. Bozman -- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- December night / Willa Cather -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor / John Cheever -- What was the Christmas star? / Arthur C. Clarke -- Christmas in Maine / Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- The Christmas tree / Samuel T. Coleridge -- Christmas Eve / Alistair Cooke -- A Christmas dinner won in battle / Stephen Crane -- little tree / e.e. cummings -- Santa Claus / Walter de la Mare -- A Christmas chapter ; The holly-tree / Charles Dickens -- A little boy at Christ's Christmas tree / Fydor Dostoyevski -- An Iowa Christmas / Paul Engle -- A Christmas gift of music, long ago / Hans Fantel -- The first Christmas tree / Eugene Field -- Home for Christmas / M.F.K. Fisher -- Christmas trees / Robert Frost -- Dulce Domum / Kenneth Grahame -- The oxen ; Mellstock-Lane ; Going the rounds ; The listeners / Thomas Hardy -- How Santa Claus came to Simpson's Bar / Bret Harte --
The Christmas spirit / William W. Hassler -- Gifts of the magi / O. Henry -- The inexhaustibility of the subject of Christmas / Leigh Hunt -- New-fashioned Christmas / Aldous Huxley -- Christmas Eve / Washington Irving -- A visit to the bank / Shirley Jackson -- Paris, Christmas, 1876 / Henry James -- The murder of Santa Claus / P.D. James -- Christmas Eve / James Joyce -- A letter at Christmastime / John Keats -- A schoolboy's holiday / Charles Lamb -- Old folks' Christmas / Ring Lardner -- Joy in Freetown / Edna Lewis -- ValleyForge : 24 December 1777 / F. Van Wyck Mason -- The cloud forest / Peter Matthiessen -- The lily-white boys / William Maxwell -- All the days of Christmas / Phyllis McGinley -- Merry Christmas / Herman Melville -- Christmas story / H.L. Mencken -- A hint for next Christmas / A.A. Milne -- On the morning of Christ's nativity / John Milton -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- The tree that didn't get trimmed / Christopher Morley -- A Christmas dinner / Noël Mostert --
The Christmas that almost wasn't / Ogden Nash -- Our crafty little Christmas / John Neary -- A Christmas train / Jack Newcombe -- The Christmas football match / Oswestry Observer -- War in Val D'Orcia / Iris Origo -- Celebration in Cherokee Flats / Gordon Parks -- The CHristmas bird count / George Plimpton -- A Christmas story / Katherine Ann Porter -- The tailor of Gloucester / Beatrix Potter -- The kid hangs up his stocking / Jacob Riis -- Christmas / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and the magi / Leo Rosten -- Now is the time of Christmas / James Ryman -- Reginald's Christmas revel / Saki -- A Brooklyn Christmas / Betty Smith -- Tree-shaking day / Lillian Smith -- The burning babe / Robert Southwell -- Christmas at sea / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Christmas on the frontier / Joanna L. Stratton -- Crisp new bills for Mr. Teagle / Frank Sullivan -- Is the a Santa Claus? / The Sun -- In memoriam A. H. H. / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Doctor Birch and his young friends / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Conversation about Christmas / Dylan Thomas --
A winter walk / Henry David Thoreau
Merry Christmas / James Thurber
Christmas at Claremont / Queen Victoria
The annual crisis of love / Loudon Wainwright
The Christmas feast / Andrew Ward
The distant music of the hounds / E.B. White
Merry Christmas / Laura Ingalls Wilder
An editorial on Christmas Day, 1917 / Wipers Times
The magi / William Butler Yeats.
