Kids haven't experienced true holiday magic until the first time they hear A Visit from St. Nicholas. That long-form poem ...

All. Amen. (Sprinkles tree with holy water.) Then the family can sing a song, an Advent carol, if it knows one, then it is time to bless the crib and eat Christmas Eve supper.

Among Rossetti’s best known poems ... a child. Her poetry often draws on her early childhood living in Cuba, but this poem is set in the year she moved to America – a significant Christmas ...