The Christmas book of legends & stories /
An anthology of poems, stories, and plays which reflect the religious aspects of Christmas.
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New York :
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company,
[1944]
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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.