Get Reader’s Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more poetry, humor, cleaning, travel, tech and fun facts all week long. The most famous of all Christmas poems, “A Visit from St. Nicholas ...

Christina Rossetti was one of the finest poets of the Victorian ... among them in this famous poem, which many will know by its first words: ’Twas the night before Christmas.

You can read the rest of this beautiful and moving poem in Harper’s 1901 poetry collection ... be peace. “Christmas Bells” has since been adapted into one of the most famous Christmas ...