Twas The Night Before Christmas Listen to the story “Twas the Night Before Christmas”  is a poem first published anonymously under the title Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who claimed authorship in 1837.  Twas the Night Before Christmas It was the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a mouse  the stockings were hung by the chimney with care  and hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there  the children have nestled all snug in their beds while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads and mama in her kerchief and I in my cap had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap when…