Best Loved Christmas Carols, Readings and Poetry Martin Manser
Author Index
Addison, Joseph
Sir Roger de Coverley’s Christmas
Alexander, Cecil Frances
Once in royal David’s city
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The time draws near the birth of Christ
Anonymous
Adam lay ybounden
Away in a manger
The boar’s head carol
Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat
The Coventry carol
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
The first Nowell
The friendly beasts
Gaudete!
Go tell it on the mountain
God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Good Christian friends, rejoice
He’s got the whole world in His hand
The holly and the ivy
I saw three ships come sailing in
I sing of a maiden
Infant holy, infant lowly
Joly Wat
A little child
Mary had a baby
Now the holly bears a berry
O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
O come, O come, Emmanuel
On Christmas night all Christians sing
Personent hodie
Rocking carol
Saint Stephen and King Herod
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Torches
The twelve days of Christmas
Unto us a boy
Unto us is born a son
The Virgin Mary had a baby boy
Wassail! wassail all over the town
We wish you a merry Christmas
Belloc, Hilaire
On a winter’s night long, long ago
Berlin, Irving
White Christmas
Betjeman, John
Christmas
Breton, Nicholas
A Christmas song
Bridge, Basil
It’s rounded like an orange
Bridges, Robert
A frosty Christmas Eve
Brooks, Phillips
Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight!
O little town of Bethlehem
Byrom, John
Christians, awake!
Cappeau, Placide
O holy night
Caswall, Edward
See, amid the winter’s snow
Cennick, John
Lo! He comes with clouds descending
Chesterton, G. K.
A Christmas carol
The wise men
Collison, Valerie
Celebrations
Cummings, E. E.
little tree
de la Mare, Walter
Mistletoe
Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol
The Pickwick Papers
Dix, William Chatterton
As with gladness men of old
What child is this?
Earey, Mark
A Christingle song
Edgar, Marriott
Old Sam’s Christmas pudding
Eliot, T. S.
Journey of the magi
Evelyn, John
A Puritan Christmas
Gerhardt, Paul
All my heart this night rejoices
Gifford, William
Rejoice, ye tenants of the earth
Heber, Reginald
Brightest and best of the sons of the morning
H?my, H. F.
Angels we have heard on high
Hill, Richard
Now ys the time of Crystymas
Hopkins, John Henry
We three kings of Orient are
Hughes, Ted
Minstrel’s song
Kipling, Rudyard
Christmas in India
Lewis, C. Day
The Christmas tree
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Christmas bells
Luther, Martin
From heaven above to earth I come
MacDonald, Mary
Child in the manger
McGinley, Phyllis
All the days of Christmas
Lady selecting her Christmas cards
MacNeice, Louis
Christmas shopping
May, Robert L.
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Milne, A.A.
King John’s Christmas
Milton, John
Hymn on the morning of Christ’s nativity
Mohr, Joseph
Silent night
Montgomery, James
Angels, from the realms of glory
Moore, Clement C.
The night before Christmas
Neale, John Mason
Good King Wenceslas
Pepys, Samuel
A Pepysian Christmas
Perry, Michael
The Calypso carol
Pierpont, James Lord
Jingle bells
Prudentius, Aurelius Clemens
Of the Father’s heart begotten
Rossetti, Christina
In the bleak mid-winter
Love came down at Christmas
Sears, Edmund H.
It came upon a midnight clear
Shaw, George Bernard
A Shavian Christmas
Sims, George R.
Christmas Day in the workhouse
Swinburne, Algernon
Three damsels in the queen’s chamber
Tate, Nahum
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
Victoria, Princess
A Victorian Christmas
Wade, John Francis
O come, all ye faithful
Watts, Isaac
Joy to the world
Watts’s cradle hymn
Wesley, Charles
Come, Thou long expected Jesus
Hark! the herald angels sing
Lo! He comes with clouds descending
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Somehow not only for Christmas
Woodward, G. R.
Ding! dong! merrily on high