What are your favourite Christmas poems? When our kids were younger they would memorize a poem to recite on Christmas. “The Bells” by Edgar Allen Poe was a favourite because of the fantastic word “tintinambulation” and its onomatopeia:

The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe

Hear the sledges with the bells—

Silver bells!

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

In the icy air of night!

While the stars that oversprinkle

All the heavens, seem to twinkle

With a crystalline delight;

Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the tintinabulation that so musically wells

From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells—

From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

You can read the complete poem here: