A Christmas feast : poems, sayings, greetings, and wishes / compiled by Edna Barth ; etchings by Ursula Arndt.
A collection of Christmas poems, carols, and sayings by a variety of authors spanning several centuries.
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New York :
Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Books,
[1979]
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Table of Contents:
- "The Dark night wakes" / Phillips Brooks
- The Twenty-fourth of December / Unknown
- "Said Simple Sam" / Leroy F. Jackson
- "Christmas comes" / English Traditional
- Christmas-tide Comes in like a Bride / The Praise of Christmas / "Chill December" / Sara Coleridge
- Christmas / Mother Goose
- Christmas Marchette Chute
- December / Aileen Fisher
- December / John Updike
- "Some say that ever again" / William Shakespeare
- Christmas Chant / Isabel Shaw
- Christmas Candle / Rachel Field
- Christmas Candles / Aileen Fisher
- Winter Night / Collister Hutchison
- "Then be ye Glad, good People" / Traditional
- "But give me holly, bold and jolly" / Christina Georgina Rossetti
- The Holy and the Ivy / Traditional
- "be links no longer broken" / Charles Mackay
- Green Grow'th the Holly / English
- The Mistletoe / Clinton Scollard
- Under the Mistletoe / Countee Cullen
- At Christmas Time / English Traditional
- Ever Green / John Clare
- The Wreath / Paul Engle
- "Ring out, ye bells!" / Paul Lawrence Dunbar
- Voices in the Mist / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- A Thousand Bells / John Clare
- Song / Eugene Field
- Christmas Bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Bells / English Carol
- The Angels / St. Luke
- And All the Angels / Scottish Carol
- Christ is Born / English
- Angels Wings / Langston Hughes
- "His place of birth a solemn angel tells" / John Milton
- "And they who do their souls no wrong" / James Russell Lowell
- Christmas Eve / Marion Edey and Dorothy Grinder
- As Joseph Was A-Walking / English
- Christmas at Freelands / James Stephens
- A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour / Ben Jonson
- "Little Jesus of the crib" / French Prayer
- The Stable / Gabriela Mistral
- A Child Is Born / Mary Ann Hamburger
- Long , Long Ago / Unknown
- Christmas in the Straw / Chad Walsh
- "Though He be Lord of all" / Anonymous
- "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb" / Isaiah
- Christmas Eve Legend / Frances Frost
- When Christmas Comes / Aileen Fisher
- The Oxen / Thomas Hardy
- Twelfth Night / Elizabeth Coatsworth
- Merry Christmas / Aileen Fisher
- Carol / Kenneth Grahame
- Wood's Litany / Elizabeth Coatsworth
- The Friendly Beasts / English Carol
- I Heard a Bird Sing / Oliver Herford
- "From gable, barn, and stable" / Norwegian Verse
- The Stork / King Edward's Prayer Book
- Carol of the Birds / French Carol
- Carol of the Birds / Spanish Carol
- Eerily Sweet / Elizabeth Coatsworth
- The Brown Birds / Eleanor Farjeon
- The Magi / St/ Matthew
- Three Kings / English Carol
- The Three Kings from the East /Heinrich Heine
- Carol of the Brown King / Langston Hughes
- Farewell to Christmas / French Carol
- Winter Solstice Chant / Ramon Sender and Alice Bay Laurel
- "Sing, ye heavens, tell the story" / Philipp Nicolai
- "Look!' The Earth is aflame with delight" / Phillips Brooks
- But Peaceful Was the Night / John Milton
- Kolyada / Russian Carol
- I Sing the Birth / Ben Jonson
- You Light / Juan Ramon Jimenez
- "Dimmest and brightest month am I" / Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Christmas Tree / AileenFisher
- Christmas Goes to Sea / Rachel Field
- Yolka / Marguerita Rudolph
- City Lights / Rachel Field
- The Mahogany Tree / William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Tree / Paul Engle
- Fun and Games / Round About Our Coal Fire / "Dame, get up and bake your pies" / English Traditional
- The Christmas Pudding / English Traditional / "Flower of England, fruit of Spain" / English Riddle
- Our Joyful'st Feast /George Wither
- "Now Thrice Welcome Christmas / Poor Robin's Almanack / "Yule, yule, yule, my Belly's full" / English Traditional
- Old Christmas returned / English Carol
- Stop Thief! / Robert Herrick
- Duckle, Duckle, Daisy / Leroy F/ Jackson
- "Now Christmas is come" / Washington Irving
- "Feed the wood and have a joyful minute" / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Yule Log / Robert Herrick
- "Now Blocks to cleave" / Poor Robin's ALmanack
- "Heap on more wood-the wind is chill" / Sir Walter Scott
- A Catch by the Hearth / Unknown
- When Santa Claus Comes / Unknown
- The Ballad of Befana / Phyllis McGinley
- "Saint Nicholas, my dear good friend" / Unknown
- Old Santa Is an Active Man / Lois Lenski
- Granny Winter / Marguerita Rudolph
- "Old Saint Nickolas comes so speedily" / Unknown
- Santa Claus /Anonymous
- A Christmas Eve Thought / Harriet Brewer Sterling
- Conversation Between Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus / Rowena Bennett
- Do Not Open Until Christmas / James S. Tippett
- Bundles / John Farrar
- Stocking Song on Christmas Eve / Mary Mapes Dodge
- A Christmas Carol / Christina Georgina Rossetti
- "Oh, Christmas time is drawing near" / Ballard
- Christmas card verse / Puerto Rican
- Gift / Carol Freeman
- Country Christmas / Aileen Fisher
- "At Christmas, play and make good cheer" / Thomas Tusser
- Christmas Wish / Elizabeth Searle Lamb
- Merry Christmas / St/ Nicholas
- "He comes-the brave brave old Christmas!" / English
- "Man, be Merry" / Unknown
- "May God bless your Christmas" / Scandinavian
- "Sing hey! Sing hey!" / English Traditional
- "May each be found thus as the year circles round" Unknown
- "Bounce buckram, velvets dear" English Traditional
- Christmas Pies / English Traditional
- "Rejoice and be glad" / Armenian Traditional
- "Yule, yule, yule" / Unknown
- "Welcome be ye that are here" / English
- "Welcome be thou, heavenly King" / English
- "I wish you a merry Christmas" / English Traditional
- "God bless the Master of this house" / English Traditional
- Now Have a Good Day / English Traditional
- "Yule's come and yule's gone" / Scottish Traditional
- Spring Cleaning / Robert Herrick