From the volunteers on Oldpoetry -
we would like to wish you all you would wish for yourselves during the holiday season.
Lots of laughter, good cheer, spending time with people you love, relax and perhaps look back in retrospect over the last year, but most of all we wish you to be surrounded by Love
Thank you all so much for your continued support, the visits, the comments and feedback - it makes all the hard work worthwhile.
We hope to see you back with us once again in 2006
Mistletoe
by Walter de la Mare
Sitting under the mistletoe
(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe)
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Minstrels
by William Wordsworth
The minstrels played their Christmas tune
To-night beneath my cottage-eaves
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Christmas at Sea
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand;
The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand;
oldpoetry.com/poetry/50355
Christmas
by John Clare
Christmas is come and every hearth
Makes room to give him welcome now
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A Christmas Carol
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap,
His hair was like a light.
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A Christmas Carol
by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
The shepherds went their hasty way,
And found the lowly stable-shed
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Christmas Bells
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old familiar carols play,
oldpoetry.com/poetry/28947
The Oxen
by Thomas Hardy
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
"Now they are all on their knees,"
oldpoetry.com/poetry/726
Marmion a Christmas Poem
by Sir Walter Scott
Heap on more wood! – the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
oldpoetry.com/poetry/33409
A Visit from St. Nicholas
by Clement Clarke Moore
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
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Christmas
by Julia A Moore
Hail the coming holiday,
With a hearty joyous feast,
oldpoetry.com/poetry/20378
Sam's Christmas Pudding
by Marriott Edgar
It was Christmas Day in the trenches
In Spain in Peninsular War
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The Ballade of the Mistletoe Bough
by Ellis Parker Butler
I am standing under the mistletoe,
And I smile, but no answering smile replies
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Bill's Christmases
by Cicely Fox Smith
"Christmas," said Bill, "on Christmas cards, it's winders all aglow,
An' lots o' stuff to eat an' drink an' a good three feet o' snow,
oldpoetry.com/poetry/45239
I Saw Three Ships
by Anonymous Americas
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas day, on Christmas day;
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A Bush Christmas
by C J Dennis
The sun burns hotly thro' the gums
As down the road old Rogan comes –
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Christmas
by John Bannister Tabb
The world His cradle is;
The stars His worshippers;
oldpoetry.com/poetry/39222
Christmas in India
by Rudyard Kipling
Dim dawn behind the tamerisks -- the sky is saffron-yellow --
As the women in the village grind the corn,
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Santa Claus
by A B Banjo Paterson
"HALT! Who goes there?” The sentry’s call
Rose on the midnight air
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Jest 'fore Christmas
by Eugene Field
Father calls me William, sister calls me Will,
Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill!
oldpoetry.com/poetry/26611
This Section is a Christmas Tree
by Vachel Lindsay
This section is a Christmas tree:
Loaded with pretty toys for you.
oldpoetry.com/poetry/22284
The Christmas Goose
by William Topaz McGonagall
Mr. Smiggs was a gentleman,
And he lived in London town;
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God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
by Anonymous Americas
God rest you merry, gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay,
oldpoetry.com/poetry/3700
The Christmas Homes of England
by Caroline Hayward
The Christmas homes of England!
How far-famed and how dear;
oldpoetry.com/poetry/4231
In Memoriam A. H. H.: 78
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Again at Christmas did we weave
The holly round the Christmas hearth;
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Ceremonies For Candlemas Eve
by Robert Herrick
Down with the rosemary and bays,
Down with the mistletoe;
oldpoetry.com/poetry/3014
A Christmas Carol
by George Wither
So now is come our joyful'st feast,
Let every man be jolly
oldpoetry.com/poetry/5159
New Prince, New Pomp
by Robert Southwell
Behold, a seely tender babe
In freezing winter night
oldpoetry.com/poetry/26268
The Burning Babe
by Robert Southwell
As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,
Surpris'd I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;
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If there are any favourites you would like to see added please leave the link below.
Merry Christmas from every one on the Oldpoetry Team
Adding your comment:
Thank you as well for the links provided and I hope to get a chance to give them a look,
to all
