The Night Before Christmas

by Clement Clarke Moore

The Night Before Christmas is a popular name for Clement C. Moore's Christmas poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas".

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Bibliographic Notes

The poem was first published, anonymously, in the Troy (NY) Sentinel in 1823. It was included in Moore's 1844 book of poems, and has also been published in many standalone illustrated editions since its first publication.

Online Editions and Versions

• A Visit from St. Nicholas (early newspaper, book, and manuscript editions), by Clement Clarke Moore, illust. by T. C. Boyd (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• A Visit from Saint Nicholas (New York: J. G. Gregory, c1862), by Clement Clarke Moore, illust. by Felix Octavius Carr Darley
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at LOC
• A Visit From St. Nicholas (Boston: L. Prang and Co., c1864), by Clement Clarke Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Visit from Saint Nicholas (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1912), by Clement Clarke Moore, illust. by Jessie Willcox Smith
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Visit From St. Nicholas (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921), by Clement Clarke Moore, illust. by Florence Wyman Ivins (multiple formats at archive.org)

Related Titles

• Poems (New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1844), by Clement Clarke Moore (multiple formats at archive.org). Collection of author's poetry that includes A Visit From St. Nicholas.

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