The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings, reindeer, and even Santa Claus. But the classic poem also sparked a centuries-long controversy.

As green cloaks the earth with its blanket sublime. You shield us and ours from hot summer’s scorch, Rains, winds, and gales, and shade the front porch. Home for the birds and the bugs and the bees ...

The “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” poem was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in The Sentinel, a newspaper based in Troy, New York.

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A Christmas Poem For Christmas Eve December 24, 2013 / 11:02 AM EST / CBS Boston BOSTON (CBS) - A Politically Correct Christmas Poem (Author Unknown ) Retrieved from the website Funny Christmas Poems ...

The poem, of course, was “A Visit From St. Nicholas” (“The Night Before Christmas”). ’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a ...

December 24, 2003 / 10:47 AM EST / CBS For more than 100 years, generations of children have enjoyed listening to their parents read the classic poem, "The Night Before Christmas." ...

The text of the Twas the Night Before Christmas -inspired poem is below: ‘Twas the night before Christmas and in the White House, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

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The poem tells the charming story of a father who witnesses St. Nicholas, aka Santa Claus, on Christmas Eve. The “jolly old elf” arrives in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer and leaves behind ...