To further your festive spirit, you may also enjoy reading some Christmas poems that speak about the reason for the season or capture the essence of all the holiday cheer. We have come up with a ...

and was a female poet at a time when the area was dominated by men. Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season.

WR Rodgers re-imagined the Christmas story of the wise men and their visit to Bethlehem in a broadcast poem for BBC radio in 1948. He describes their ‘zigzag’ journey through the seasons of ...