or add another fun activity to your family’s Christmas traditions, by reading these poems together over hot cocoa by the fire. Worried poetry might put Grandma to sleep too early? We’ve got ...

and long family gatherings. To add some more cheer and Christmas vibe to your parties and celebrations, we have brought to you some short, inspirational, and famous Christmas Day poems.

and every Christmas Eve at midnight they kneel again in their stalls in homage to the newborn king. In Hardy’s poem, one of the old generation of a family around a farmhouse fire mentions, at midnight ...

Assisted by a growing mass media that gave the poem a wider audience, Christmas became a time for family and childlike wonder. That magic didn’t include what some considered a critical part of ...

This holiday season, impress your friends and family with fun facts about the history of Christmas traditions, including the history of the “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem ...

“Christmas poem” is a capacious category ... In it, two children fall in love with their family’s “little silent Christmas tree,” kissing its bark, hugging its limbs, decorating its ...

Editor’s Note: Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” in 1822. It is believed that a family ...

Editor’s Note: Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” in 1822. It is believed that a family ...

and Eliza Cook’s 1840 poem “The Christmas Holly” is an ode to the merriment that the plant can bring. The English poet came from a modest working-class family and was a huge advocate for ...