There are 38 poems for Christmas
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.A Child's Christmas in Georgia, 1953
By Wyatt Prunty
A Christmas Song
By Norman Williams
A Penitent Considers Another Coming of Mary
By Gwendolyn Brooks
A Visit from St. Nicholas
By Clement Clarke Moore
Advent
By Mary Jo Salter
An Xmas Murder 
By Alfred Corn
“Your Luck Is About To Change” 
By Susan Elizabeth Howe
Before Christmas
By Landis Everson
Christ’s Nativity
By Henry Vaughan
Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
By Donald Hall
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing
By Toi Derricotte
Christmas Tree
By John Frederick Nims
Christmas Tree Lots 
By Chris Green
December 26
By Kenn Nesbitt
December Substitute
By Kenn Nesbitt
For Christmas Day
By Charles Wesley
For Christmas Day: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
By Charles Wesley
Human Beauty 
By Albert Goldbarth
In the Holy Nativity of our Lord
By Richard Crashaw
little tree
By E. E. Cummings
London Snow
By Robert Bridges
Messiah (Christmas Portions)
By Mark Doty
More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
By John Milton
Picture of a Nativity
By Geoffrey Hill
Resigning from a Job in a Defense Industry
By Sandra McPherson
Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree 
By George Starbuck
St Vincent’s
By W. S. Merwin
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost
Taking Down the Tree
By Jane Kenyon
The Burning Babe
By Robert Southwell, SJ
The Cremation of Sam McGee
By Robert W. Service
The First Day of Christmas
By Anonymous
The Same City
By Terrance Hayes
The Virgin Considered as a Picture
By Edgar Bowers
To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris
By Helen Maria Williams
To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year
By Philip Appleman
Where Are The Stars Pristine
By Alice Fulton
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