The Young Oxford Book of Christmas Poems,9780192762474

The Young Oxford Book of Christmas Poems

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ISBN13: 9780192762474
ISBN10: 0192762478
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-12-06
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This is a wonderful collection of poems for older children at Christmas. Starting with the Advent season in the cold of winter, the book travels through the joys and mysteries of Christmas. It moves from cards to carols, bells to angels, holy to stars, trees to Santa Claus until it reaches the birth of Jesus in the manger, the adoration of the shepherds, and the coming of the Kings. And finally it looks forward to the New Year and our hope for the future. There is host of poems here, with the emphasis on modern poets to give a fresh slant on Christmas. The poets range from Blake, Clare, Donne, and Herrick, through Stevenson, de la Mare, Hardy and Rossetti, to Dylan Thomas, John Hegley, Charles Causley, Sylvia Plath, U.A. Fanthorpe, Ted Hughes, and many others. Beautifully illustrated by a number of talented artists, the book will prove a constant joy to children and all the family at Christmas.

Table of Contents

Advent: A Carol
9(1)
Patric Dickinson
Advent 1955
10(2)
John Betjeman
Season's Greetings
12(1)
Carol Shields
Pilot
13(1)
Richard Edwards
The Coming of the Cold
14(1)
Theodore Roethke
Somewhere Around Christmas
15(1)
John Smith
Christmas Landscape
16(1)
Laurie Lee
Sir Winter
17(1)
Jean Kenward
Christmas at Four Winds Farm
18(1)
Maureen Haselhurst
little tree
19(1)
E. E. Cummings
The Christmas Tree
20(1)
C. Day Lewis
Christmas Light
21(1)
May Sarton
The Christmas Life
22(1)
Wendy Cope
The Christmas Burglar
23(1)
Jackie Kay
Christmas at Sea
24(2)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Hill Christmas
26(1)
R. S. Thomas
December
26(2)
John Clare
A Christmas Childhood
28(2)
Patrick Kavanagh
Christmas
30(1)
George Herbert
Advice from Poor Robin's Almanack
31(1)
Anon
A Christmas Poem
31(1)
Wendy Cope
Carol
32(1)
John Whitworth
Christmas in the doghouse
33(1)
John Hegley
Winter Festival
34(2)
Julie O'Callaghan
Real Life Christmas Card
36(1)
Norman MacCaig
Carol
36(1)
R. S. Thomas
Carol
37(1)
Kenneth Grahame
Under the Mistletoe
38(1)
Countee Cullen
Mistletoe
38(1)
Walter de la Mare
Planting Mistletoe
39(1)
Ruth Pitter
The Mistletoe Bough
40(1)
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Open House
41(1)
Anon
December
42(1)
John Heath-Stubbs
Christmas Market
42(2)
Mike Harding
Christmas Shopping
44(2)
Louis MacNeice
Moonless darkness stands between
46(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Joseph
47(1)
U. A. Fanthorpe
In the Town
48(2)
Anon
The Thorn
50(1)
Helen Dunmore
Sailor's Carol
51(1)
Charles Causley
Carol for the Last Christmas Eve
52(1)
Norman Nicholson
Christmas Eve at Sea
53(1)
John Masefield
The Eve of Christmas
54(1)
James Kirkup
December Music
55(1)
Winfield Townley Scott
How to Paint a Perfect Christmas
56(2)
Miroslav Holub
All the Days of Christmas
58(2)
Phyllis McGinley
Merry Christmas
60(1)
Leigh Hunt
Christmas Eve
60(1)
Patricia Beer
Christmas in Envelopes
61(1)
U. A. Fanthorpe
Christmas Card
62(2)
Ted Hughes
Santa's New Idea
64(2)
Anon
The Waiting Game
66(1)
John Mole
Reindeer Report
67(1)
U. A. Fanthorpe
Sandy's Letter to Santa Claus
67(1)
Irene Rawnsley
Christmas Secrets
68(1)
Aileen Fisher
Christmas Triolet
68(1)
Wendy Cope
The Mouse and the Xmas Tree
69(1)
Matthew Sweeney
Christmas Bells
70(1)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christmas Bells
71(1)
John Mole
Christmas
72(2)
John Betjeman
The Lodging
74(1)
George Mackay Brown
Day in Darkness
75(1)
Richard Crashaw
The Ox-and-the-Ass's Story
76(1)
Elma Mitchell
What the Donkey Saw
77(1)
U. A. Fanthorpe
The Angels for the Nativity of Our Lord
77(1)
William Drummond
Christmas Day
78(1)
Andrew Young
Shepherd Boy
79(1)
Pamela Holmes
The Other Shepherd
80(1)
John Mole
Shepherd
81(2)
Peter Howard
Shepherds' Carol
83(1)
Norman Nicholson
BC : AD
84(1)
U. A. Fanthorpe
Kings Came Riding
85(1)
Charles Williams
Journey of the Magi
86(2)
T. S. Eliot
The Adoration of the Magi
88(2)
Christopher Pilling
They Came to an Inn
90(1)
George Mackay Brown
The Jesus Room
91(1)
Christopher Woodland
The Christmas Star
92(1)
John Corben
The Crib
93(1)
Robert Finch
Christmas Traffic
94(1)
U. A. Fanthorpe
Christmas Caves
95(1)
Helen Dunmore
Now Thrice Welcome Christmas!
96(1)
George Wither
Around the Glowing Hearth
97(1)
John Clare
Christmas
98(1)
Diana Hendry
Truce
99(1)
Paul Muldoon
The Silent Knight
100(2)
Matthew Sweeney
Ghost Story
102(2)
Dylan Thomas
The Animals' Carol
104(2)
Charles Causley
Foxes
106(1)
Frieda Hughes
Minstrel's Song
107(1)
Ted Hughes
A Cradle Song
108(1)
William Blake
Carol
109(1)
Norman Nicholson
Nativitie
110(1)
John Donne
A Christmas Carol
111(1)
G. K. Chesterton
The Wicked Fairy at the Manger
112(1)
U. A. Fanthorpe
I Saw a Stable
112(1)
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
That the Great Angell-blinding Light
113(1)
Richard Crashaw
Christmas Day
114(1)
Brian Moses
Meditation on the Nativity
115(1)
Elizabeth Jennings
Turkeys Observed
116(1)
Seamus Heaney
Talking Turkeys!!
116(2)
Benjamin Zephaniah
Table Manners in 1476
118(1)
John Lydgate
Christmas Day
119(1)
Roy Fuller
Under the Tree
120(1)
John Mole
from Christmas in Africa
121(3)
Jeni Couzyn
Afterthought
124(1)
Elizabeth Jennings
St Stephen's Day
125(1)
Patric Dickinson
Well, so that is that
126(2)
W. H. Auden
The Christmas Tree
128(1)
John Walsh
Balloons
129(1)
Sylvia Plath
Joseph and Jesus
130(1)
Robert Graves
After Christmas
131(1)
Michael Hamburger
Never Again
132(1)
Harri Webb
Innocent's Song
133(1)
Charles Causley
A Ballad of Christmas
134(2)
Walter de la Mare
For Rachel: Christmas 1965
136(1)
Adrian Mitchell
Whatever Next?
137(3)
Anthony Stuart
The Day After the Day After Boxing Day
140(1)
Paul Cookson
Adrian Henri's Talking After Christmas Blues
141(1)
Adrian Henri
Nothingmas Day
142(2)
Adrian Mitchell
The Old Year
144(1)
John Clare
Folding and Unfolding
145(1)
Michael Richards
The New Year
146(1)
Anon
New Year Resolutions
147(1)
June Crebbin
New Year Song
148(2)
Ted Hughes
Epiphany Poem
150(1)
George Mackay Brown
Ceremony upon Candlemas Eve
151(1)
Robert Herrick
At Candlemas
151(1)
Charles Causley
Behold I Stand
152(2)
Gerard Kelly
The Gate of the Year
154(1)
M. Louise Haskins
Snowdrops
155(1)
George MacBeth
Index of Titles and First Lines 156(2)
Acknowledgements 158

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