Ya Filthy Animal", says a young kid in the tone of a middle-aged man. Almost every year, this quote starts floating on the internet around Christmas.

DEAR READERS: Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas. Hope you enjoy these poems for the holidays.

A peal of bells, a merry shout / Assail his ear: he gazes out / Upon a world to him all gray, / And snarls, ‘Why, this is Christmas Day!’ / No, man of ice, -- for shame, for shame!