His poem “Christmas in the Heart” describes the “glee of Christmas time,” and how it’s a season for kindness and cheer, not for greed or drear. They’re Christmas Roses, child.

Centuries later, William Chatterton Dix authored a poem titled “The Manger Throne,” from which the lyrics of “What Child Is This ... in John Stainer’s Christmas Carols New and Old ...

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.