In this 1901 poem, excerpted above, a drunk father quickly sobers up on Christmas Eve when he comes home to see his son’s stocking hanging over the chimney and realizes his son’s happiness is ...

In his 1912 poem “Out of Debt,” Jamaican American and Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay writes from the perspective of a father who rejoices in being debt-free on Christmas and appreciates ...

Points of Joy: A father’s Christmas poem to creative daughter: Write! Write! Write! Tom Gregory’s young daughter inspired him to write his “Dear Santa” poem years ago.

A SCHOOLGIRL has written a Christmas poem to the murdered father she never knew. The last photograph taken of Paul Logan shows him cradling his infant daughter, Natalie, just before Christmas 1993 ...

The poem tells the charming story of a father who witnesses St. Nicholas, aka Santa Claus, on Christmas Eve. The “jolly old elf” arrives in a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer and leaves behind ...

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896. By Tina Jordan “In thousands of homes and by hundreds of thousands of children ...