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 ...

Christmas Day Poems in English: Christmas is around the corner and we just can’t control our excitement. Finally, it’s time for the holiday cheer and cold December breeze. The season of hot ...

Today’s Poem of the Day, “Music on Christmas Morning,” appeared originally in 1846 ... under their own names, in the English literary canon. Anne, the youngest sister, saw her first novel, “Agnes Grey ...

It is one of the most famous poems in the English language—almost as famous as Christmas itself. A single word is enough to get going: “‘Twas”. You know the rest, or probably quite a bit ...

nothing beats reading the “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem with a crackling fireplace, twinkling tree and jolly carols ...

The word “iconic” gets tossed around rather freely at times, but the Christmas poem ... illustrated and collected poem in the history of the English language,” said McColl.

Not long after, Placide Cappeau showed this poem, “Minuit ... it was first performed at a midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, 1847. The standard English translation, by the American Unitarian ...

19th-century English poet Christina Rossetti is remembered for her love poems, religious poems and poems for the grieving. Rossetti’s “Love Came Down at Christmas” has simple verses that ...

You've heard of the beloved "’Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem—maybe some reinterpretations and parodies of it too. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?