Christmas Poems

Awake the voice!  Awake the string! Dark and dull night fly hence away, And give the honor of this day That sees December turned to May.             —William Herrick Christmas Poems is a pleasing and diverse selection of classic holiday poems that goes all the way back to an eclogue of Virgil, moves along to a wide range of authors such as Chaucer, Herbert, Longfellow, Dickinson, Paul Dunbar, Rilke, Yeats, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, E