Fifty Christmas poems for children
FIFTY CHRISTMAS POEMS
FOR CHILDREN
AN ANTHOLOGY SELECTED BY
FLORENCE B. HYETT
Why do the bells of Christmas ring? Why do little children sing? Eugene Field
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK
MCMXXIII
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The Compiler expresses her thanks to Authors and Publishers for the use of poems in this volume and acknowledges her indebtedness.
The woodcut on the Cover of this book is reproduced by kind permission of the artist, Mr. C. T. Nightingale.
He came all so still
Where His mother was,
Unknown
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INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
OLD CAROL
THE LAMB CHILD
CHRISTMAS DAY AND EVERY DAY
THE CHRISTMAS CHILD
THE LAMB
SONG
THE HOLLY
CAROL
SHEPHERD’S SONG
VERSES FROM “THE CHERRY-TREE CAROL”
A CRADLE SONG
THE BIRDS
CHRISTMAS EVE
A CHRISTMAS PRAYER
THREE CHRISTMAS SONGS
CRADLE HYMN
A SONG FOR THE SEASON
IN THE NIGHT
“MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB”
BETHLEHEM
WAITING FOR THE KINGS
BEHOLD A SILLY TENDER BABE
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
EX ORE INFANTIUM
A SONG OF CHRISTMAS
THE HOLLY AND THE IVY
A CRADLE HYMN
BEFORE DAWN
THE WAITS
IN PRÆSEPIO
WHEN CHRIST WAS BORN
THE CAROL OF THE POOR CHILDREN
STAR OF THE EAST
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
YULE-TIDE FIRES
SIX GREEN SINGERS
THAT HOLY KING
CHRISTMAS
TO HIS SAVIOUR, A CHILD; A PRESENT BY A CHILD
AN ODE TO THE BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
THE OXEN
I SAW THREE SHIPS
NOËL
UNTO US A SON IS GIVEN
VERSES FROM THE SHEPHERD’S HYMN
VERSES FROM THE HYMN ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST’S NATIVITY
FROM “IN MEMORIAM”
