Recite these cozy Christmas poems to share the holiday spirit and make even your Grinchiest loved ones say, "Ho, ho, ho!" Snow-tipped chimneys, fresh pine, lively carols and gifts wrapped with ...

For Christmas this year, the MI5 tapped Oldman to narrate a contemporary take on ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas’ for its social media channels. Titled A Christmas Story from MI5, the clip ...

Gary Oldman, who stars as grumpy yet gifted spy boss Jackson Lamb in Apple TV+ hit “Slow Horses,” has been recruited by the real MI5 – to narrate a Christmas poem. In collaboration with the ...

MI5 has released a special version of the festive poem The night before Christmas, read by actor Gary Oldman. In the voice over, Oldman reprises the role of his Slow Horses character Jackson Lamb ...

Editor’s Note: Clement Clarke Moore (1779 – 1863) wrote the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” also known as “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” in 1822. It is believed that a family ...

Moore's poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas." For almost half of that time, Forum readers have enjoyed seeing the famous words on the front page of the Christmas Eve edition. Originally titled ...

A new tradition and my Christmas gift to you, a poem I wrote for a year in review. Ring, ring, ring-a-ling. We’ve got some rhymes to sling. The prose can wait. All fun, no hate. Let’s try our ...

When out recently on a Christmas walk, our family paused ... We are so familiar that we can forget how robin is a shortening of Robert. An older name for the species was ‘redbreast’ and, earlier still ...

Proud Mother Nature, she made them all. Made some of them short and others quite tall. In green and in red, and even in gold, Skinny and round ...

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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.

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?