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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley but severe homesickness led her to return home after one year....
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Christmas
A Christmas Carol
by Christina Rossetti
A Christmas Carol
by George Wither
A Visit from Saint Nicholas
by Clement Clark Moore
Christmas Bells
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christmas Trees
by Robert Frost
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
by John Milton
The Mahogany Tree
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Oxen
by Thomas Hardy
The Shivering Beggar
by Robert Graves
Toward the Winter Solstice
by Timothy Steele
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Poems about Christmas
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The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487)  
by Emily Dickinson

The Savior must have been

A docile Gentleman—
To come so far so cold a Day
For little Fellowmen—

The Road to Bethlehem
Since He and I were Boys
Was leveled, but for that 'twould be
A rugged Billion Miles—
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