twas the night before christmas by clement clarke moore audio

The authorship of A Visit is credited to Clement Clarke Moore who is said to have composed it on a snowy winter's day during a shopping trip on a sleigh. Nicholas in the Troy Sentinel, 23 December 1823 The original publication of Account of a Visit from St. As he flies away, Santa calls out 'Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.' They share a conspiratorial moment before Santa bounds up the chimney again. He carries a sack of toys, and the father watches his visitor deliver presents and fill the stockings hanging by the fireplace, and laughs to himself. After landing his sleigh on the roof, Santa enters the house by sliding down the chimney. Looking out the window, he sees Santa Claus ( Saint Nicholas) in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. On the night of Christmas Eve, a family is settling down to sleep when the father is disturbed by noises on their lawn. Nicholas eventually was set to music and has been recorded by many artists. Before the poem gained wide popularity, American ideas had varied considerably about Saint Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors. It has had a massive effect on the history of Christmas gift-giving. The poem has been called 'arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American' and is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Nicholas in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837.

Nicholas, more commonly known as The Night Before Christmas and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title Account of a Visit from St. Cover page for a series of illustrations for the Night Before Christmas produced as part of a PWA project in 1934 by Helmuth F.

Twas the night before christmas by clement clarke moore audio