A Visit from St. Nicholas my children," Moore claimed the Christmas poem in this 1844 letter as his "literary property, however small the intrinsic value of that property may be." "A Visit from St. Nicholas" appears on pages 124-127 in Moore's volume of collected Poems (New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1844). Before 1844, the poem was included in two 1840 anthologies: attributed to "Clement C. Moore" in Selections from The American Poets, edited by William Cullen Bryant (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840), pages 285-286; and to "C. C. Moore" in the first volume of The Poets of America, edited by John Keese (New York:
Nicholas Nye Nicholas Nye Nicholas Nye is a poem by famous British poet Walter de la Mare. It was published in the year 1931. It has a total of 40 lines. It is written for children aged around 9–10 years. It is a six stanza poem in which the poet is the first person from view and visits an orchard and finds a donkey named 'Nicholas Nye'. He observes and describes the donkey 'Nicholas Nye' and discovers that he and the donkey are very similar. He explains the miseries and difficulties the donkey has to face for example being unwanted and alone.