Richard Wilbur's "A Wedding Toast"

Philip Appleman's "To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year"

Robert Service's "The Passing of the Year"

Helen Hunt Jackson's "New Year's Morning"

T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi"

William Butler Yeats' "The Magi"

Cecil Day Lewis' "The Christmas Tree"

W. H. Auden's Conclusion to For the Time Being

W. H. Auden's "Chorus of Angels"

J. R. R. Tolkien's "Noel"

George Herbert's "Love (III)"

Two Christmas Poems from G. K. Chesterton

Donald Hall's "Christmas Eve in Whitneyville"

James Merrill's "Christmas Tree"

Mary Jo Salter's "Home Movies: A Sort of Ode"

John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Malcolm Guite's "Launde Abbey on Saint Lucy's Day"

Christina Rossetti's "A Christmas Carol"

Ezra Pound's "The White Stag"

Emily Dickinson's "In this short Life that only lasts an hour"