Famous Christmas Night Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Christmas Night poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous christmas night poems. These examples illustrate what a famous christmas night poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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Her Late Husband (Kings-Hintock 182-.)

by Thomas Hardy
 "No--not where I shall make my own; 
 But dig his grave just by 
The woman's with the initialed stone - 
 As near as he can lie - 
After whose death he seemed to ail, 
 Though none considered why. 

"And when I also claim a nook, 
 And your feet tread me in, 
Bestow me, under my...Read more of this...

The Christmas Night

by Lucy Maud Montgomery
 Wrapped was the world in slumber deep, 
By seaward valley and cedarn steep, 
And bright and blest were the dreams of its sleep; 
All the hours of that wonderful night-tide through 
The stars outblossomed in fields of blue, 
A heavenly chaplet, to diadem 
The King in the manger of Bethlehem. 

Out on the hills the shepherds lay, 
Wakeful, that...Read more of this...

Santa Claus

by Andrew Barton Paterson
 "HALT! Who goes there?” The sentry’s call 
Rose on the midnight air 
Above the noises of the camp, 
The roll of wheels, the horses’ tramp. 
The challenge echoed over all— 
“Halt! Who goes there?” 
A quaint old figure clothed in white, 
He bore a staff of pine, 
An ivy-wreath was on his head. 
“Advance, oh friend,” the sentry said,...Read more of this...

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