Christmas Poetry And Prose

Wherein our Saviours Birth is celebrated,
The Bird of Dawning singeth all night long:
And then (they say) no Spirit can walk abroud,
The nights are wholesome, then no Planets strike,
No Fairy takes, nor Witch hath power to Charme:
So hallow'd, and so gracious is the time.

Note: I have found it best to save recordings (MP3 and OGG) to my computer, and then play the recording, rather than to attempt to stream the recording from the server.

All recordings by Douglas D. Anderson, except as noted.
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Silver Bells and Golden Memories
Copyright: Agatha Weeks.
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Why do the bells of Christmas ring?
Why do little children sing?

Once a lovely shining star,
Seen by shepherds from afar,
Gently moved until its light
Made a manger's cradle bright.

There a darling baby lay,
Pillowed soft upon the hay;
And its mother sung and smiled:
"This is Christ, the holy Child!"

Therefore bells for Christmas ring,
Therefore little children sing.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - Alban Butler
January-February-March (1895)

Edward P. Mason, Two Responsive Carol Services (For Christmas and Easter). Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1883.
J. E. Trowbridge, Responsive Christmas Carol Service for Sabbath Schools (Ditson, 1883).
J. F. Kinsey and John McPherson, Echoes of Glory. LaFayette, IN: The Echo Music Co., 1888. A Christmas Programme - 1888.
Richard R. Chope, Carols For Use In Church London: William Clowes & Sons, The Complete Edition, 1894: Six Carol Services for Christmas. Chope also had two services for Easter and three services for Harvest.
Charles L. Hutchins, The Child Jesus (Medford, MA, prior to 1892). One of several carols services written by Rev. Hutchins, one other of which was a Christmas service (The Christ Child).
A Festival Service of Nine Lessons And Appropriate Music. London: Oxford University Press, 1934. Based on the Christmas-tide A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, this service was adapted by the Winchester Diocesan Choral Association to embrace all the seasons of the Church's year.
Carol Service, 1947 (from a handwritten note in the back of my copy of Shaw and Dearmer, The English Carol Book, Combined Edition, 1938)

I wish to acknowledge the significant work done by the compilers of the Christmas Bookcase at Project Gutenberg, and by gbnewby who created the "XMas Collection" of works found at Project Gutenberg (November 12, 2006).

Note: Due to space constraints, there are few MP3 files at this site. Also please note that some of these files are quite large, and may take a long time to download. With the exception of the Lionel Barrymore rendition of "A Christmas Carol," smaller versions of these recordings are available at LibriVox and Project Gutenberg.

Christmas Short Works Collection 2006
Public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a variety of LibriVox members.

Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection
40 Christmas poems and hymns read by Douglas D. Anderson

Christmas Carol Collection 2006
A dozen traditional Christmas carols performed by LibriVox volunteers.

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Artwork "Christmas For Ever" by John Gilbert from Christmas In Art And Song. New York: The Arundel Printing and Publishing Company, 1879.

Artwork "Christmas In Art and Song" by G. Perkins from Christmas In Art And Song.

Artwork "Christmas In Art" by John A. Hows from Christmas In Art And Song.

What is an OGG?

Ogg Vorbis (OGG) is an open-source, compressed audio format similar to MP3 and WMA, both of which are proprietary formats protected by patent (Microsoft recently lost a lawsuit brought by France's Alcatel-Lucent SA concerning licensing of the MP3 format in Windows, and was ordered to pay $1.52 billion in damages). The developers of OGG claim that it has higher performance than either MP3 or WMA (and, in my experience, produces smaller files). OGG supports Windows, UNIX/LINUX, MAC OSX, OS/2, and Pocket PC. To play an OGG file, you either need to load a Codec for your system, or you need to use a program which has native support for OGG; see Third Party Software. For more information about this format, see XIPH.org and Vorbis.com. Links open in a new window at an exterior site. Sites accessed November 15, 2006. Return

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Once A Lovely Shining Star

A Christmas Poetry Collection

So Gracious Is The Time

A Christmas Poetry Collection

How Still The Night

The Christmas Poems of Father Andrew, S.D.C.

Father and Daughter

Christmas Poems by William and Frances Havergal

Now, Now The Mirth Comes

Christmas Poetry by Robert Herrick

What Sudden Blaze Of Song

The Christmas Poems of Rev. John Keble

A Holy Heavenly Chime

The Christmastide Poems of Christina Georgina Rossetti

All My Heart This Night Rejoices

The Christmas Poems of Catherine Winkworth

A Victorian Carol Book

Favorites from the 19th Century —
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Victorian Visions
A Christmas Poetry Collection

Divinely Inspired
A Christmas Poetry Collection

The Bridegroom Cometh
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Christmas In The Northwest - Volume 9
Since 1985, Christmas in the Northwest artists have been lighting up the holidays, and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Children's Hospitals through the sale of the Christmas in the Northwest CD series. Available at multiple outlets in the Pacific Northwest, and on-line at Amazon.com
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Best-Loved Christmas Carols
by Ronald M. Clancy
The new edition from Sterling Publishing, October 2006.

The originals released by The Millennia Collection:
Best-Loved Christmas Carols (2000)
American Christmas Classics (2001)
Children's Christmas Classics (2002)
Christmas Classics, Ltd

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(accessed November 14, 2006).

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Christmas Short Works Collection 2006Public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a variety of LibriVox members.

Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection40 Christmas poems and hymns read by Douglas D. Anderson

Christmas Carol Collection 2006A dozen traditional Christmas carols performed by LibriVox volunteers.

What is an OGG?

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

Christmas Short Works Collection 2006
Public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a variety of LibriVox members.

Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection
40 Christmas poems and hymns read by Douglas D. Anderson

Christmas Carol Collection 2006
A dozen traditional Christmas carols performed by LibriVox volunteers.