A Christmas treasury

The fir tree / HansChristian Andersen --

Saint Stephen was a clerk ; I saw three ships / Anonymous --

The cat on the Doverfell / Peter Christen Asbjörnsen and Jörgen Moe --

The ghost of Christmas Eve / J.M. Barrie --

Of argonauts and holly weaths / John Baur --

The white road / E.F. Bozman --

Christmas Eve / Robert Browning --

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 --

The Christmas gift / Joan Coons --

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 --

The Festival of St. Nicholas / Mary Mapes Dodge --

A little boy at Christ's Christmas tree / Feodor Dostoevsky --

An Iowa Christmas / Paul Engle --

A Christmas gift of music, long ago / Hans Fantel --

The first Christmas tree / Eugene Field --

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 --

Gifts of the Magi / O. Henry --

Ceremonies for Candelmas / Robert Herrick --

On lending a punch-bowl / Oliver Wendell Holmes --

The inexhaustability of the subject of Christmas / Leigh Hunt --

New-fashioned Christmas / Aldous Huxley --

Christmas Eve / Washington Irving --

Paris, Christmas, 1876 / Henry 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 --

Valley Forge : 24 December 1777 / F. Van Wyck Mason --

Dear Madam: We know that you will want to contribute ... ; Office party ; Lady selecting her Christmas cards / Phyllis McGinley --

Shakespeare's Christmas gift to Queen Bess in 1596 / Anna B. McMahan --

Merry Christmas / Herman Melville --

hristmas 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 Christmas tobacco ; The tree that didn't get trimmed / Christopher Morley --

The Christmas that almost wasn't / Ogden Nash --

Our crafty little Christmas / John Neary --

The Christmas football match / Oswestry observer --

Celebration in Cherokee Flats / Gordon Parks --

The Christmas bird count / George Plimpton --

A Christmas story / Katherine Anne Porter --

The tailor of Gloucester / Beatrix Potter --

The kid hangs up his stocking / Jacob Riis --

Karma / Edwin Arlington Robinson --

Christmas / Eleanor Roosevelt --

Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N and the Magi / Leo Rosten --

I am Christmas ; 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 --

The Christmas wreck / Frank Stockton --

Christmas on the frontier / Joanna L. Stratton --

Crisp new bills for Mr. Teagle / Frank Sullivan --

Is there a Santa Claus? / The Sun --

In memoriam of 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 distant music of the hounds / E.B. White --

An editorial on Christmas Day, 1917 / Wipers Times --

The Magi / William Butler Yeats.