Christmas Poems Famous Holiday Poems Throughout History

Want to know the best way to get your family into the spirit of the season? Print out copies of these famous CHRISTMAS POEMS and sit around the fireplace together sipping hot chocolate. While the cocoa warms your toes, these moving words will warm your heart. Start a family CHRISTMAS TRADITION today!

T'WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS by Clement Clark Moore is the perfect story to tuck children in on Christmas Eve. They will lie awake, “nestled all snug in their beds”, anxiously waiting for the “eight tiny reindeer” to appear on their rooftop.

TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS is a fun way to pass the time on the way to grandmother's house for a Christmas feast and celebration. Print off these lyrics and sing along in the car. Everyone can pick a day or two to be the soloist on. It is better than listening to “Are we there yet?” a dozen times or more.

CHRISTMAS BELLS by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a beautiful poem that has also been turned into a Christmas Carol over the years. It brings thoughts of world peace to mind and the enormous job ahead of us if we are ever to accomplish this great feat! Bringing a little good will to strangers will keep Longfellow's sentiments alive and well during this giving time of year.

A SOLDIER’S CHRISTMAS by Lance Corporal James M. Schmidt was written for his fellow marines and was immediately circulated for its thought-provoking sentiment. This classic poem was first published in Leatherneck Magazine in 1991 with the original title Merry Christmas, My Friend. This poem has been set to music and is read on many radio stations for the holidays. It is a twist on the classic Twas The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clark Moore.

BELLEAU WOOD a song on Garth Brooks’ CD Seven, tells the story of a Christmas truce to cease firing during World War I between British and German troops. It began on Christmas Eve 1914 when the German troops put up candles and began singing Silent Night. The British responded by singing carols. The soldiers crossed “No Man’s Land” and exchanged gifts of whiskey, jam, cigars and chocolate. The truce also allowed them proper burial time for their fallen comrades. The truce lasted through Christmas night and the fighting resumed.

LET US KEEP CHRISTMAS by Grace Noll Crowell is a short, but meaningful sentiment, especially in these times when the economy will not allow the spending that has occurred in the past. Remember your childlike faith of the past.

THE HOLY NIGHT by Elizabeth Barrett Browning reflects on the story of the birth of Jesus on one holy night and the wonder of a star that guides the magi to bring gifts to him.

WHAT CAN I GIVE HIM? by Christina Rossetti is about what to bring the Baby Jesus for a gift and has a religious tone about giving your heart this holiday season.

THE CHRISTMAS HOLLY by Eliza Cook is a joyful poem all about the holly’s burst of green and red color against the white backdrop of the snow, and its beautiful meaning in nature and the tales it tells when other plants hibernate for the winter.

EXCERPT FROM LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott is not really a poem, but the Christmas sentiments of the four March sisters, facing a lean Christmas while their father is away fighting battles in war, and a time when frivolities are scarce.