Lyrics & Legends of Christmas-Tide

Scollard's collection gathers verse that captures Christmas not as a single holiday but as a season woven from centuries of tradition, myth, and domestic warmth. Here you'll find poems that move from the boisterous revelry of wassail and Yule logs to quieter meditations on ancestry and the stubborn persistence of hope through winter's darkness. The language rings with the cadence of early 20th-century verse, at once formal and heart-felt, evoking a world where Christmas meant candle-lit churches, familiar songs sung around pianos, and the particular magic of snow-bound landscapes. These aren't poems that chase modern irony or cynicism. They wear their sentiment honestly, which is precisely their power. For readers who find modern holiday entertainment hollow, Scollard offers something harder to manufacture: genuine warmth rendered in careful craft. The collection works best read slowly, one poem at a time, perhaps by firelight in December.