You may not know the name John Freeman Young, but it's possible you've been singing or humming a song he translated from German into English way back in 1859: Silent ... a poem written by a ...

I added these details into the poem - I needed, eventually, the name of a popular sleeping pill and went to the chemist to inquire. "Stilnox," she told me. "Stilnox," Krystallnacht, "Silent Night ...

But in that fall of 1816, a young Catholic priest, Joseph Mohr, had written a six-verse Christmas poem that began “Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht” — Silent Night, Holy Night — about the ...

‘Silent Night’ is one of the world’s most famous Christmas melodies ... A few years before, he had written a rather beautiful poem called ‘Stille Nacht’. So, he asked Franz Xavez Gruber, a ...

"Stilnox," Krystallnacht, "Silent Night" ― all of the unheard suffering ... One of the wonderful features of a poem is the way, although it may tell just the one tale, it can summon several ...

The Silent Night Chapel in Oberndorf bei Salzburg ... Suddenly Joseph Mohr had an epiphany. He remembered a poem he wrote about the night angels announced the birth of the Christ child to the ...

(It was later replaced with the Silent Night Chapel.) An organ builder who ... reveals that Mohr wrote the poem in 1816 when he was assigned to a small church in Mariapfarr, Austria.