Twas the Night Before Christmas

A Visit from St. Nicholas

By

Clement C. Moore

With Pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith

INTRODUCTION

Amid the many celebrations last Christmas Eve, in various places by different persons, there was one, in New York City, not like any other anywhere. A company of men, women, and children went together just after the evening service in their church, and, standing around the tomb of the author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas," recited together the words of the poem which we all know so well and love so dearly.

Dr. Clement C. Moore, who wrote the poem, never expected that he would be remembered by it. If he expected to be famous at all as a writer, he thought it would be because of the Hebrew Dictionary that he wrote.

He was born in a house near Chelsea Square, New York City, in 1781; and he lived there all his life. It was a great big house, with fireplaces in it;—just the house to be living in on Christmas Eve.

Dr. Moore had children. He liked writing poetry for them

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Verlag: BookRix GmbH & Co. KG

Tag der Veröffentlichung: 17.02.2014
ISBN: 978-3-7309-8456-7

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