Christmas may come but once a year but human emotions, the driving force of our characters, are with us every day.

Yet, somehow these same emotions when they happen at Christmas seem amplified; we seem more tender to their touch, their words.

In this volume we take the verse and poems of our classic poets and put them alongside our short story masters to reveal a Christmas that everyone remembers and that everyone wants to be part of.

1 - Christmas. In Stories and in Poetry - An Introduction

2 - What the Bells Saw and Said by Louisa May Alcott

3 - Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

5 - As Sleigh Bells Seem In Summer by Emily Dickinson

6 - Minstrels. A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth

7 - Carol by Ben Jonson

8 - A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

9 - A Christmas Carol by G. K. Chesterton

10 - A Christmas Carol by Aubrey De Vere

11 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott

12 - No Mercy Here by Daniel Sheehan

13 - Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale

14 - The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

15 - The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

16 - An Ode of the Birth of Our Saviour by Robert Herrick

17 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton

18 - Nativity by John Donne

19 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart

20 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan

21 - Upon Christ His Birth by Sir John Suckling

22 - Christmas For Atheists by Daniel Sheehan

23 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling

24 - The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoevsky

25 - The Beautiful Mother by Jacopone da Todi

26 - New Prince New Pomp by Robert Southwell

27 - The Burning Babe by Robert Southwell

28 - The Nativity by Henry Vaughan

29 - The Mother of God by William Butler Yeats

30 - The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman by Emily Dickinson

31 - Christmas Poem by Robert Herrick

32 - December Sales Drive by Daniel Sheehan

33 - A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy

34 - The House of Christmas by G. K. Chesterton

35 - Christmas Eve in War Times by Edward Payson Roe

36 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore

37 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens

38 - Christmas Eve by Christina Rossetti

39 - The Masque of Christmas by Ben Jonson

40 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

41 - Christmas At Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson

42 - In The Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti