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 |
Hémy, 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 |