Description: Ever since the first carolling of the angelic choir over Bethlehem, the Nativity has inspired the most magical words of celebration. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones you would insist on finding here ("A Visit from St. Nicholas, " "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming, " and "A Partridge in a Pear Tree" among them) but such equally enchanting though lesser known Yuletide treasures as Emily Dickinson's "The Saviour Must Have Been, " Anthony Hecht's "Christmas is Coming, " Rudyard Kipling's "Christmas in India, " Langston Hughes's "Shepherd's Song, " Robert Graves's "The Christmas Robin, " and such happy surprises as Phyllis McGinley's "Office Party, " Dorothy Parker's "The Maidservant at the Inn" and Philip Larkin's "New Year Poem."

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