We’ve got you covered with both short poems and excerpts, as well as underappreciated works. Read on for the best Christmas poems of the year—they’ll bring you and your loved ones closer ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

Riley’s “Christmas Afterthought” is a short, humorous poem in which a little boy has a profound realization that Santa Claus must not have had anyone to bring him presents as a young child.