You can read the full poem, but you may prefer these cheerier children’s Christmas books as an alternative ... including “The Ragged Stocking.” In this 1901 poem, excerpted above, a drunk ...

The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings ... with the publication of The New-York Book of Poetry anthology 14 years later did an author ...

Since its publication, the poem has been reinterpreted into children’s books ... before Christmas, when all through the house ...

Few people reading these words will need convincing that all Christmas stockings – children ... place on the children’s shelves. Poetry books for children rarely hit the headlines, a fact ...

Christmas stockings made ... “A Visit From Saint Nicholas,” stockings were hung near the fireplace, awaiting a visit from Santa Claus. At the end of the poem, St. Nick “fill’d all the ...

The tradition of hanging stockings in the U.S. was solidified with the 1823 publication of Clement Clarke Moore’s poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," also known as "The Night Before Christmas." ...

Her feminist, anti-slavery and temperance beliefs were often highlighted in her poetry, including “The Ragged Stocking ... Christmas poem, but you may prefer cheerier children’s Christmas ...