Sing hey! Sing hey!

For Christmas Day

Twine mistletoe and holly
For friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let’s all be jolly.
~Anon. ,“An Old Christmas Greeting”

Villagers all, this frosty tide,

Let your doors swing open wide,
Though wind may follow and snow betide,
Yet draw us in by your fire to bide:
Joy shall be yours in the morning.
~Kenneth Grahame, from The Wind in the Willows (1908)

Here we come a-wassailing

Among the leaves so green;
Here we come a-wand’ring
So fair to be seen.
~from “Here We Come A-Wassailing”

Blow, North Wind, blow,

All the leaves are falling;
Cold, frost and snow
Winter comes a-calling.
~Margaret Morgan, “Winter”
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty winds made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone.
Snow had fallen, snow on snow.
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter,
Long ago.
~Christina Rossetti, from “In the Bleak Mid-Winter” (1872)

The fir tree shone so long ago;

And still in winter’s frost and snow.
The little green fir tree comes each year
To bring us joy and Christmas cheer.
“Noel, Noel!”
~Margaret Rose, from “The Little Fir Tree”

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill;

But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
~Sir Walter Scott, from “Marmion”(1808)

I heard the bells on Christmas Day

Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat,
Of peace on earth, good will to men!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from “Christmas Bells” (1863)
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love
and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound
and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary
would be the world if there were no Santa Claus.
~Francis P. Church, from his editorial in The Sun (New York),
Sept. 21, 1897

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about

that.
~Charles Dickens, from A Christmas Carol--a Ghost Story of
Christmas (1843)

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
~Clement Clarke Moore, from “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (1823)

We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy,

candy cane, candy corn, and corn syrup.
~Spoken by Buddy, in Elf (2003)

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every

time we give, it's Christmas.
~Dale Evans Rogers
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold,
everything is softer and more beautiful.
~Norman Vincent Peale

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

~W. T. Ellis

Somehow, not only for Christmas,

But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others,
Is the joy that comes back to you.
~John Greenleaf Whittier

From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to

another,
The warmth and joy of Christmas brings us closer to each other.
~Emily Matthews

And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,

Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?
“It came without ribbons! It came without tags!
“It came without packages, boxes or bags!”
And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!
“ Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn't come from a store.
“Maybe Christmas . . . perhaps . . . means a little bit more!”
~Dr. Seuss, from How the Grinch Stole Christmas!