| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Poems.
VI. A Christmas Carol | | By Dinah Maria Craik (1826–1887) |
| | | GOD rest ye, merry gentlemen; let nothing you dismay, | |
| For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. | |
| The dawn rose red o’er Bethlehem, the stars shone through the gray, | |
| When Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. | |
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| God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, | 5 |
| For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; | |
| Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay, | |
| When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas-day. | |
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| God rest ye, all good Christians; upon this blessèd morn | |
| The Lord of all good Christians was of a woman born: | 10 |
| Now all your sorrows He doth heal, your sins He takes away; | |
| For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. | | | | |
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