A Visit From Saint Nicholas (Clement Moore)
Christmas - A Story (Zona Gale)
The Story of the Other Wise Man (Henry van Dyke)
Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy)
Christmas Roses (Anne Douglas Sedgwick)
Christmas Stories (Edward Berens)
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
The Cricket on the Hearth (Charles Dickens)
The Battle of Life (Charles Dickens)
The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Tree (Charles Dickens)
What Christmas Is As We Grow Older (Charles Dickens)
The Poor Relation's Story (Charles Dickens)
The Child's Story (Charles Dickens)
The Schoolboy's Story (Charles Dickens)
Nobody's Story (Charles Dickens)
The Seven Poor Travellers (Charles Dickens)
The Holly-Tree (Charles Dickens)
The Wreck of the Golden Mary (Charles Dickens)
The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (Charles Dickens)
A House to Let (Charles Dickens)
The Haunted House (Charles Dickens)
A Message From the Sea (Charles Dickens)
Tom Tiddler's Ground (Charles Dickens)
Somebody's Luggage (Charles Dickens)
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings (Charles Dickens)
Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy (Charles Dickens)
Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens)
Mugby Junction (Charles Dickens)
No Thoroughfare (Charles Dickens)
A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories
(Louisa May Alcott)
A Christmas Dream and How It Came True
The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation
Merry Christmas
In the rush of early morning,
When the red burns through the gray,
And the wintry world lies waiting
For the glory of the day,
Then we hear a fitful rustling
Just without upon the stair,
See two small white phantoms coming,
Catch the gleam of sunny hair.
Are they Christmas fairies stealing
Rows of little socks to fill?
Are they angels floating hither
With their message of good-will?
What sweet spell are these elves weaving,
As like larks they chirp and sing?
Are these palms of peace from heaven
That these lovely spirits bring?
Rosy feet upon the threshold,
Eager faces peeping through,
With the first red ray of sunshine,
Chanting cherubs come in view:
Mistletoe and gleaming holly,
Symbols of a blessed day,
In their chubby hands they carry,
Streaming all along the way.
Well we know