As far as classic Christmas Eve activities go, nothing beats reading the “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem with a crackling fireplace, twinkling tree and jolly carols playing in the ...

In this 1901 poem, excerpted above, a drunk father quickly sobers up on Christmas Eve when he comes home to see his son’s stocking hanging over the chimney and realizes his son’s happiness is ...

Summary: The much-loved carol 'Silent Night' was first performed on Christmas Eve, 1818. Originally it was sung to a simple guitar accompaniment. The carol began life as a poem, written in 1816 by ...

Among Rossetti’s best known poems is this short work about one of the plants most associated with the Christmas season. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like comes from a variety of places ...

Cappeau showed this poem, “Minuit, chrétiens,” to the ... where it was first performed at a midnight mass on Christmas Eve, 1847. The American music critic John Sullivan Dwight translated ...

Summary: The much-loved carol 'Silent Night' was first performed on Christmas Eve, 1818. Originally it was sung to a simple guitar accompaniment. The carol began life as a poem, written in 1816 by ...