The Christmas book of legends & stories /

An anthology of poems, stories, and plays which reflect the religious aspects of Christmas.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Smith, Elva Sophronia, 1871-1965 (Compiler), Hazeltine, Alice Isabel, 1878-1959 (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, [1944]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Prince of Peace / Micah V:2, Isiah IX, 2:67
  • Cherry-tree carol / Old English
  • Christmas Carol / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Peaceful night / John Milton
  • Ballad of the happy Christmas wind / Sister Mary Madeleva
  • Joseph and the shopkeeper / Alfred R. Bellinger
  • Gates and doors / Joyce Kilmer
  • Reminiscences of a landlord / Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • Inn that missed its chance / Amos Russel Wells
  • Silent night, holy night / Joseph Mohr
  • Christmas silence / Margaret Deland
  • Before dawn / Walter de la Mare
  • Star of Bethlehem: a nativity play for children / Alice Corbin Henderson
  • Christmas carol / Sara Teasdale
  • First Christmas / Norah M. Holland
  • Christmas night / Alice Isabel Hazeltine
  • Our brother is born / Eleanor Farjeon
  • Noël de Thevet / Edward Bliss Reed
  • Jesous Ahatonhia (Jesus is born) / J.E. Middleton
  • Christmas legends / Denis A. McCarthy
  • Pan Jez̆iśku (small Lord Jesus) / Leclaire Alger
  • Gentle beasts / Leclaire Alger
  • Christmas folk song / Lizette Woodworth
  • Ox / Sara Maynard
  • Friendly beasts
  • Happy oxen in a stall / Annette Wynne
  • Neighbors of the Christ night / Nora Archibald Smith
  • Oxen / Thomas Hardy
  • Ox and the ass / Jules Supervielle
  • Least of the carols / Sophie Jewett
  • Birds / Czech carol
  • Whence comes this rush of wings?
  • Words from an old Spanish carol / Ruth Sawyer
  • Adoration of the shepherds / St. Luke II, 1-16
  • Angel and the shepherds / Alfred R. Bellinger
  • Star / From old nativity play
  • First Nowell the angel did say / Ancient English carol
  • Bethlehem: a Christmas mystery play / Arthur Ketchum
  • Shepherds in Judea / Mary Austin
  • Rise up shepherd an' foller / Negro spiritual
  • Shepherd's song / Norah M. Holland
  • Sheep herd / Sister Mariella
  • Little gray lamb / Archibald Beresford
  • Shepherds / Sophie Jewitt
  • Shepherd who stayed / Theodosia Garrison
  • Shepherd who couldn't see the light: a Christmas play / Susanna Myers
  • Shepherd / Heywood Broun
  • Dogs of Bethlehem / Katharine Lee Bates
  • I'll go to Bethlehem / Edward Bliss Reed
  • Bring a torch, Jeanette, Isabella
  • Song of a shepherd-boy at Bethlehem / Josephine Preston Peabody
  • First Christmas roses / Alice Isabel Hazeltine
  • Christmas carol / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Slumber-song of the Blessed Mother / Grace Warrack
  • Rocking / Czech carol
  • Madonna, to her sleeping child / Lope Félix de Vega Carpio
  • Song / Langdon E. Mitchell
  • Mary sings / Norah M. Holland
  • Little king / Irene Gass
  • Visit of the Wise Men / St. Matthew II, 1-12
  • Go, Magi, on your way / Edward Bliss Reed
  • March of the three kings / French carol
  • Three holy kings / Alice Isabel Hazeltine
  • Three kings came riding / Norah M. Holland
  • Three kings of Orient / John Henry Hopkins
  • Three kings / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Sending of the Magi / Bliss Carman
  • Gifts / Odell Shepherd
  • Frankincense and myrrh / Heywood Brown
  • Ballad of Wise Men / George M.P. Baird
  • Carol of three kings / Nora Hopper Chesson
  • Caspar's story / John Osenham
  • Star: a Christmas mystery play / Bertha Palmer Lane
  • Mary's lullaby / Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • Legends of the flight into Egypt / Vera E. Walker
  • All the road to Egypt / Katharine Lee Bates
  • Flight into Egypt / Selma Lagerlöf
  • Haughty aspen / Nora Archibald Smith
  • Legend of Babe Jesus and the weeders
  • Child of Nazareth / St. Luke II, 40-52
  • Man of the house / Katharine Tynan Hinkson
  • Little mud-sparrows / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • Children of wind and the clan of peace / Fiona Macleod
  • Child Jesus in the garden
  • Gracious time / William Shakespeare
  • Babuska: a Russian legend / Edith Matilda Thomas
  • Mystic thorn / Elva Sophronia Smith
  • Blooming of the white thorn / Edith Matilda Thomas
  • Legend of St. Christopher / Elva Sophronia Smith
  • Story of the bride / Vera E. Walker
  • Cross of the dumb / Fiona Macleod
  • Sin of the Prince Bishop / William Canton
  • Good King Wenceslas / John Mason Neale
  • Legend of the Christmas rose / Selma Lagerlöf
  • Clown of God / Katharine Gibson
  • Márgil vine / Nina Otero
  • Christmas at Greccio: a story of St. Francis / Sophie Jewett
  • Child at a crèche / Alice Isabel Hazeltine
  • Little Lord Jesus
  • Félix / Evaleen Stein
  • Dobry's Christmas / Monica Shannon
  • Third lamb / Anne D. Kyle
  • Christmas Eve in Ireland / Katharine Tynan Hinkson
  • Christmas morning / Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • Prayer / John Farrar
  • Where love is, there God is also / Count Lyof N. Tolstoi
  • Away in a manger / Attributed to Martin Luther
  • Christmas prayer / Lucy Embury
  • Ex ore infantium / Francis Thompson.