Without the door let sorrow lie,
And if for cold it hap to die,
We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie ...
--George Wither, "A Christmas Carol"
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And it was on the holy Christmas Eve that Joseph and his companions reached the Isle of Avalon.
--William of Malmesbury, "The Christmas Thorn of Glastonbury"
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"... Sure, weren't there Christmases long before there were toy-shops? No. no, laddy. Christmas lies in the hearts and memories of good folk, and ye'll find it wherever ye can find them!"
--Ruth Sawyer, This Way to Christmas
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Then they all stood up together and stared straight at the altar, to see what great gift had awakened the long-silent bells.
--Raymond MacDonald Alden, "Why the Chimes Rang"
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"... the Mayor of Gloucester is to be married on Christmas Day in the morning, and he hath ordered a coat ..."
--Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester
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And before Little Girl could even think, she found herself all tucked up in the big fur robes beside Santa, and away they went, right out into the air, over the clouds, through the Milky Way, and right under the very handle of the Big Dipper ...
--Winnifred E. Lincoln, "Little Girl's Christmas"
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But Piccola never doubted at all
That something beautiful must befall
Every child upon Christmas-day,
And so she slept till the dawn was gray.
--Celia Thaxter, "Piccola"
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Christmas Potpourri: Holiday Etexts
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Edward Everett Hale - Lucretia P. Hale - Joseph Mills Hanson - Thomas Hardy - Marion Harland - Elizabeth Harrison - Bret Harte - Nathaniel Hawthorne - O. Henry - E. T. A. Hoffmann - Florence Holbrook - Laura Lee Hope - Edward Hopper - P. M. Hough - William Dean Howells
Joseph Mills Hanson
"The Greatest of These" (originally published in Youth's Companion, 1902), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
Thomas Hardy
"The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing," from Father Christmas Annual, 1877?
"The Oxen" (poem), from Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses, 1919
Marion Harland
The Christmas Holly, 1867
Elizabeth Harrison
"A Story of the Christ-Child" (originally published in Christmastide, 1902), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
"Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe" (originally published in Christmastide, 1902), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
Bret Harte
"How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar" (originally published in Atlantic Monthly, March 1872), from Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories, 1873
"The Christmas Gift That Came to Rupert: A Story for Little Soldiers," from Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories, 1873
"Dick Spindler's Family Christmas," from Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation and Other Stories, 1894
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Christmas Banquet" (originally published in United States Democratic Review, January 1844), from Mosses from an Old Manse, 1846
O. Henry
"Christmas by Injunction," from New York Sunday World Magazine, December 1904
"The Gift of the Magi," from The Four Million, 1906
"A Chaparral Christmas Gift," from Whirligigs,
1910
O. Henry Christmas stories to purchase: 
E. T. A. Hoffmann
"The Story of the Hard Nut" (translated by William Makepeace Thackeray), from The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, 1819
Hoffmann Christmas stories to purchase: 
Florence Holbrook
"Why the Evergreen Trees Never Lose Their Leaves: An Old Legend" (originally published in The Book of Nature Myths, 1902), from Good Stories for Great Holidays, edited by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 1914
Laura Lee Hope
"Christmas," from The Bobbsey Twins, or Merry Days Indoors and Out, 1904
"Unwelcome News," from The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge, 1913
Edward Hopper
The Fire on the Hearth in Sleepy Hollow: A Christmas Poem of the Olden Time, 1865
P. M. Hough
"Kermis and St. Nicholas," from Dutch Life in Town and Country, 1903
William Dean Howells
"Christmas Every Day," 1892
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving
Old Christmas, 1820
Irving Christmas stories to purchase: 
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Sarah Orne Jewett - Sophie Jewett - John of Hildesheim - Annie Fellows Johnston
Sarah Orne Jewett
"Patty's Dull Christmas" (originally published in The Independent, December 1875), from Play Days, 1878
"Jack's Merry Christmas," from The Independent, December 1881
"After Christmas," from The Independent, December 1882
"An Empty Purse," from Boston Evening Transcript and Philadelphia Press, December 1895
Betty Leicester's Christmas, 1899
Sophie Jewett
"The Christmas at Greccio," from God's Troubadour: The Story of St. Francis of Assisi, 1910
John of Hildesheim
"The Three Kings of Cologne: A Legend of the Middle Ages" (adaptation by H. S. Morris), from Good Stories for Great Holidays, edited by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 1914
Annie Fellows Johnston
"Christmas," from The Giant Scissors, 1898
"A Happy Christmas," from The Little Colonel's Holidays, 1901
The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation, 1905
"Christmas Day at Eugenia's," from Mary Ware, the Little Colonel's Chum, 1908
Johnston Christmas stories to purchase: 
See also:
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Myra Kelly - Anna Bonus Kingsford - Leonard Kip - Winifred M. Kirkland
Myra Kelly
"A Christmas Present for a Lady," from Little Citizens: The Humours of School Life, 1904
Anna Bonus Kingsford
"A Village of Seers--A Christmas Story," from Dreams and Dream Stories, 1889
Leonard Kip
"The Ghosts at Grantley," from Hannibal's Man and Other Tales, 1878
Winifred M. Kirkland
"The Little Sister's Vacation" (originally published in Youth's Companion, 1903), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
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Selma Lagerlöf - Mrs. M. A. L. Lane - Andrew Lang - Josephine Lawrence - Stephen Leacock - Winnifred E. Lincoln - Lillie Linden - Maud Lindsay - James Weber Linn - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Selma Lagerlöf
"The Emperor's Vision," from Christ Legends, 1908
"The Holy Night," from Christ Legends, 1908
"The Wise Men's Well," from Christ Legends, 1908
Mrs. M. A. L. Lane
"A Christmas Matinee" (originally published in Youth's Companion, 1900), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
Andrew Lang
"Why the Sea Is Salt," from The Blue Fairy Book, 1889
"Prince Ring," from The Yellow Fairy Book, 1894
"The Underground Workers," from The Violet Fairy Book, 1901
"The Stones of Plouhinec," from The Lilac Fairy Book, 1910
Josephine Lawrence
Mr. White Helps Santa Claus, 1928
See also:
Stephen Leacock
"A Christmas Letter," from Literary Lapses, 1910
"Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas," from Literary Lapses, 1910
"The New Food," from Literary Lapses, 1910
Winnifred E. Lincoln
"Little Girl's Christmas," from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
Lillie Linden
"Allie's Christmas Eve" (poem), from Robert Merry's Museum, February 1865
Maud Lindsay
"The Story of Gretchen," from Mother Stories, 1900
James Weber Linn
"The Philanthropist's Christmas" (originally published in Youth's Companion, 1908), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Christmas Bells" (poem), from Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1863
"The Three Kings" (poem), from Birds of Passage
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Arthur Machen - Donald A. Mackenzie - F. E. Mann - Olive Thorne Miller - A. A. Milne - L. M. Montgomery - Clement Clarke Moore
Arthur Machen
"A New Christmas Carol" (also known as "Scrooge: 1920"), from London Evening News, December 1920
Donald A. Mackenzie
"The Snow Cat," from Fairy Tales from Many Lands, n.d.
F. E. Mann
"The Birds' Christmas" (originally published in In the Child's World by Emilie Poulsson, 1919), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
Olive Thorne Miller
"The Telltale Tile" (originally published in Kristy's Queer Christmas, 1904), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
"Christmas in the Alley" (originally published in Kristy's Queer Christmas, 1904), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
"Christmas Under the Snow" (originally published in Kristy's Queer Christmas, 1904), from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories, edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner, 1926
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I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"
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Unto children, in their glee,
All the year is Christmas-tide!
--Lewis Carroll, "Christmas Greetings"
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As Christmas approached, the usual mysteries began to haunt the house, and Jo frequently convulsed the family by proposing utterly impossible or magnificently absurd ceremonies ...
--Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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At Christmas he used to wear an elegant red coat embroidered with gold; a sword, and a hat under his arm, [and] crack the nuts for the young ladies, who, from this peculiar quality of his, had already called him "Nutcrackerkin."
--E. T. A. Hoffmann, "The Story of the Hard Nut"
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"I didn't to have no soap nor no perfumery, and my mama; she couldn't to buy none by the store; but, Teacher, I'm got something awful nice for
you by present."
--Myra Kelly, "A Christmas Present for a Lady"
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And all the bells on earth shall ring,
On Christmas day in the morning.
--"I Saw Three Ships"
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