Christmas Stories, Poems and Lyrics

Christmas has inspired many writers to create stories that try to capture the spirit of Christmas. Following is a small collection of Christmas stories, poems and lyrics, from nativity stories, and the legend of the first Christmas tree, to classics such as Dickens 'A Christmas Carol', 'The Night Before Christmas' and 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer'.

Christmas Stories
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The Child Born at Bethlehem
About six miles to the south of Jerusalem is the village of Bethlehem, lying along the slope and on the top of a gray hill, from the steep eastern end of which one looks over a broad plain, toward a range of high hills beyond.........

The Three Holy Kings
In a far country, in the days before Jesus was born in Judea, there were great astrologers who studied the heavens by night and by day, for they knew of the prophecy which said that a star shall be born or spring out of Jacob, and a man shall arise of the lineage of Israel........

The Three Kings
Three Kings came riding from far away,
Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar;
Three Wise Men out of the East were they,
And they travelled by night and they slept by day,
For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star....

Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe
Once upon a time, a long time ago, far away across the great ocean, in a country called Germany, there could be seen a small log hut on the edge of a great forest, whose fir-trees extended for miles and miles to the north. This little house, made of heavy hewn logs, had but one room in it....

The Stranger Child: A Legend of the First Christmas Tree
There once lived a laborer who earned his daily bread by cutting wood. His wife and two children, a boy and girl, helped him with his work. The boy's name was Valentine, and the girl's, Marie. They were obedient and pious and the joy and comfort of their poor parents....

A Christmas Carol
Once upon a time—of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve—old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them.....

The Night Before Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there....

A Visit From Saint Nicholas
(in the Ernest Hemingway manner, but with humor) It was the night before Christmas. The house was very quiet. No creatures were stirring in the house. There weren't even any mice stirring. The stockings had been hung carefully by the chimney. The children hoped that Saint Nicholas would come and fill them.....

The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus
In Baltimore there lived a boy.
He wasn't anybody's joy.
Although his name was Jabez Dawes,
His character was full of flaws......

The Gift of the Magi
O'Henry's most famous story, "The Gift of the Magi" concerns a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts: -
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas......

Jingle Bells
Dashing through the snow
In a one horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way....

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose,
And if you ever saw it,
You could even say it glows....

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Christmas Every Day
The Christmas fairy grants a little girl's dearest wish, and much mayhem ensues, while its Christmas every day!

The Fir Tree
The story of a little fir tree, and its greatest moments, as a Christmas tree. One of Hans Christian Anderson's more famous fairy tales

The Christmas Star
The story of a little star, and its place in the heart of a child.

Snow Lady
Oh lady stay with us
as long as you may,
with the snow blowing around,
and the children at play,
you are back here for Christmas,
but just for the day,
for the sun in the morning
will melt you away...............

The Little Friend
A white Christmas, with a white dove, and a Christmas miracle:
"Oh! I am so cold, so cold!" sobbed little Pierre, as he stumbled through the snow which was drifting deep upon the mountain side.........

Christmas Under the Snow
A story about being totally snowed in for Christmas on the prairie:
It was just before Christmas, and Mr. Barnes was starting for the nearest village. The family were out at the door to see him start, and give him the last charges......

White Christmas (lyrics)
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know.......

What Happened Christmas Eve
The story of an old fashioned Christmas where a white cat brings the best Christmas gift of all. - It was Christmas Eve and the frost fairies were busy getting ready for Christmas Day. First of all they spread the loveliest white snow carpet over the rough, bare ground; then they hung the bushes and trees with icicles that flashed like diamonds in the moonlight........

The Fir Tree
The story of a little fir tree, and its greatest moments, as a Christmas tree. One of Hans Christian Anderson's more famous fairy tales

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