Christmas Eve at Mr. Wardle's......... _Charles Dickens_ A Visit from St. Nicholas............. _Clement C. Moore_ A Christmas Piece..................... _Fred S. Cozzens_ Wassailer's Song...................... _Robert Southwell_ Christmas Eve......................... _Hamilton Wright Mabie_ Christmas In The Olden Time........... _Walter Scott_ Sly Santa Claus....................... _Mrs. C.S. Stone_ The Waits............................. _Margaret Deland_ The Knighting of the Sirloin.......... _Anonymous_ The Christmas Goose at the Cratchits'. _Charles Dickens_ God Bless Us Every One................ _James Whitcomb Riley_ Bells Across the Snow................. _Frances Ridley Havergal_ Christmas Bells....................... _Henry Wadsworth Longfellow_ Minstrels and Maids................... _William Morris_ Inexhaustibility of the Subject of Christmas................ _Leigh Hunt_ Song of the Holly..................... _William Shakespeare_ Under the Holly-Bough................. _Charles Mackay_ Ceremonies for Christmas.............. _Robert Herrick_ Santa Claus........................... _Anonymous_ The Ceremonies for Christmas Day...... _Robert Herrick_ December.............................. _Harriet F. Blodgett_ The Festival of St. Nicholas.......... _Mary Mapes Dodge_ The Christmas Holly................... _Eliza Cook_ To the Fir-Tree....................... _From the German_ The Mahogany-Tree..................... _William Makepeace Thackeray_ Christmas............................. _Washington Irving_ Church Decking at Christmas........... _William Wordsworth_ So, Now is Come Our Joyful'st Feast... _George Wither_ Fairy Faces........................... _Anonymous_ Merry Christmas....................... _Anonymous_ A Merry Christmas to You.............. _Theodore Ledyard Cuyler_ Christmas Bells....................... _Anonymous_ The Birth of Christ................... _Alfred Tennyson_ The Christmas Carol................... _William Wordsworth_ Christmas at Fezziwig's Warehouse..... _Charles Dickens_ Christmas Bells....................... _John Keble_ III SIGNIFICANCE AND SPIRIT