This season is such a special time of year filled with joy and goodwill. It's a time for Christmas pageants, singing carols, giving gifts and decorating homes. To further your festive spirit, you may also enjoy reading some Christmas poems that speak about the reason for the season or capture the essence of all the holiday cheer. We have come up with a list of the best Christmas poems for families to reflect on this season. Of course, if you are a child, Christmas is more about receiving gifts, eating treats and visiting Santa. So, some of the poetry on our list is just for small kids to enjoy—the rhymes are light-hearted and fun which means they will probably want to be repeated over and over.Here are our 30 favorite Christmas poems.Related: We've Got 25 of the Best Religious Christmas Songs—Go Tell It on the Mountain
Best Christmas Poems
Journeying to Bethlehem, a long and tiring trekEvery bed was full that night, no matter where they checkedStable is empty, someone said, a place to lay your headUntil a baby was born in there, a manger for a bedSomeone special and holy, the angels all saidChristened Emmanuel, a name chosen by GodHow noble for one born in a situation so oddRemembered now in prayers and churches all around the worldImmortalized in stories and songs learned by every boy and girlSacrificed upon the cross to forgive us all our sinsThe Son of God who was born for us, who died and was born again– unknownRelated: 35 Cheery Christmas Nail Design Ideas To Get Into the Holiday Spirit
2. The First Christmas
It never snows at Christmas in that dry and dusty land.Instead of freezing blizzards, there are palms and drifting sands,and years ago a stable and a most unusual star and three wise men who followed it, by camel, not by car,while, sleepy on the quiet hills, a shepherd gave a cry.He'd seen a crowd of angels in the silent starlit sky.In the stable, ox and ass stood very still and calmand gazed upon the baby, safe and snug in Mary's arms.And Joseph, lost in shadows, face lit by an oil lamp's glowstood wondering, that first Christmas Day, two thousand years ago.– Marian Swinger
Though the presents are shiny and the paper is brightAnd it is hard to wait through the long and cold nightTo open them all the very next dayAnd bring out the wonderful new toys to playIt is important that we all rememberWhy it is we give gifts at the end of DecemberWhy it is we all gather and joyously sing:To celebrate the birth of our Savior and King– unknown
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4. Christmas Bells
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I heard the bells on Christmas DayTheir old, familiar carols play,And wild and sweetThe words repeatOf peace on earth, good-will to men!– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Celebration of the birth of ChristHe who is the SaviorResting in a manger, in a bed of hayIn the light of the Christmas star shining above, showing the wayShepherds and kings all followed the light to pay tribute to HimTo leave gifts at his feet and acknowledge their KingMary’s son, and the Son of GodA man, too, and mortal, able to die for our sins, and soSave us from ourselves, and grant us eternal life and light– unknown
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6. Winter Time
Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head; Blinks but an hour or two; and then, A blood-red orange, sets again. Before the stars have left the skies,At morning in the dark I rise; And shivering in my nakedness, By the cold candle, bathe and dress. Close by the jolly fire I sit To warm my frozen bones a bit;Or with a reindeer-sled, explore The colder countries round the door. When to go out, my nurse doth wrap Me in my comforter and cap; The cold wind burns my face, and blowsIt's frosty pepper up my nose. Black are my steps on silver sod; Thick blows my frosty breath abroad; And tree and house, and hill and lake, Are frosted like a wedding cake.– Robert Lewis StevensonRelated: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas: The Story and Trivia Behind the Beloved Classic Holiday Tale
Tonight, I look up at the stars in the skyAnd remember another star, from days long gone byThat shone oh so brightly, to show men the wayTo a small baby laid in a manger of hayThis baby was sweet, all shiny and new,But he means so much more to me and to youWe know him as Jesus Christ or EmmanuelAnd his story is one we have long loved to tellBecause it is a story of the best of manOf mercy and sacrifice and God’s all-knowing planIt is a story of love beyond measureOf a Father who gave us His most precious treasureI think of all this, as I look at the starsI think about the love of this God of oursAnd I close my eyes and cross myself, and I prayThat I will remember this love every day– unknown8. Music On Christmas Morning
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Music I love - but never strainCould kindle raptures so divine,So grief assuage, so conquer pain,And rouse this pensive heart of mine -As that we hear on Christmas morn,Upon the wintry breezes borne. Though Darkness still her empire keep,And hours must pass, ere morning break;From troubled dreams, or slumbers deep,That music kindly bids us wake:It calls us, with an angel's voice,To wake, and worship, and rejoice;– Anne Brontë
The kings they came from out the south,All dressed in ermine fine;They bore Him gold and chrysoprase,And gifts of precious wine.The shepherds came from out the north,Their coats were brown and old;They brought Him little new-born lambs—They had not any gold.The wise men came from out the east,And they were wrapped in white;The star that led them all the wayDid glorify the night.The angels came from heaven high,And they were clad with wings;And lo, they brought a joyful songThe host of heaven sings.The kings they knocked upon the door,The wise men entered in,The shepherds followed after themTo hear the song begin.The angels sang through all the nightUntil the rising sun,But little Jesus fell asleepBefore the song was done.– Sara TeasdaleRelated: Christmas Carols10. Mistletoe
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Sitting under the mistletoe(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),One last candle burning low,All the sleepy dancers gone,Just one candle burning on,Shadows lurking everywhere:Some one came, and kissed me there.Tired I was; my head would goNodding under the mistletoe(Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),No footsteps came, no voice, but only,Just as I sat there, sleepy, lonely,Stooped in the still and shadowy airLips unseen—and kissed me there.– Walter de La Mare
Awake, glad heart! get up and sing!It is the birth-day of thy King.Awake! awake!The Sun doth shakeLight from his locks, and all the wayBreathing perfumes, doth spice the day.Awake, awake! hark how th’ wood rings;Winds whisper, and the busy springsA concert make;Awake! awake!Man is their high-priest, and should riseTo offer up the sacrifice.I would I were some bird, or star,Flutt’ring in woods, or lifted farAbove this innAnd road of sin!Then either star or bird should beShining or singing still to thee.I would I had in my best partFit rooms for thee! or that my heartWere so clean asThy manger was!But I am all filth, and obscene;Yet, if thou wilt, thou canst make clean.Sweet Jesu! will then. Let no moreThis leper haunt and soil thy door!Cure him, ease him,O release him!And let once more, by mystic birth,The Lord of life be born in earth.– Henry Vaughan
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12. In The Bleak Midwinter
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,In the bleak midwinter, long ago.Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain;Heaven and earth shall flee away when He comes to reign.In the bleak midwinter, a stable place sufficedThe Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.Enough for Him, whom cherubim, worship night and day,Breastful of milk, and a mangerful of hay;Enough for Him, whom angels fall before,The ox and ass and camel which adore.Angels and archangels may have gathered there,Cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;But His mother only, in her maiden bliss,Worshipped the beloved with a kiss.What can I give Him, poor as I am?If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part;Yet what I can I give Him: give my heart.
– Christina Rossetti
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.“Now they are all on their knees,”An elder said as we sat in a flockBy the embers in hearthside ease.We pictured the meek mild creatures whereThey dwelt in their strawy pen,Nor did it occur to one of us thereTo doubt they were kneeling then.So fair a fancy few would weaveIn these years! Yet, I feel,If someone said on Christmas Eve,“Come; see the oxen kneel,“In the lonely barton by yonder coombOur childhood used to know,”I should go with him in the gloom,Hoping it might be so.– Thomas Hardy14. Christmas Mail
Cards in each mailbox,angel, manger, star and lamb,as the rural carrier,driving the snowy roads,hears from her bundlesthe plaintive bleating of sheep,the shuffle of sandals,the clopping of camels.At stop after stop,she opens the little tin doorand places deep in the shadowsthe shepherds and wise men,the donkeys lank and weary,the cow who chews and muses.And from her Styrofoam cup,white as a star and perchedon the dashboard, leading herever into the distance,there is a hint of hazelnut,and then a touch of myrrh.– Ted KooserRelated: Festive Front Porch Decorations for Christmas
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