Christmas America. In America, interest in Christmas had been revived in the 1820s by several short stories by Washington Irving which appear in his "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." and "Old Christmas". Irving's stories depicted harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities he experienced while staying in Aston Hall, Birmingham, England, that had largely been abandoned, and he used the tract "Vindication of Christmas" (1652) of Old English Christmas traditions, that he had transcribed into his journal as a format for his stories. In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (popularly known by its first
Bidrohi (poem) sky and the air free of the piteous groans of the oppressed. <br> Only when the battle fields are cleared of jingling bloody sabres <br> Shall I, weary of struggles, rest in quiet, <br> I am the rebel eternal, <br> I raise my head beyond this world and , <br> High, ever erect and alone! ("English translation by Kabir Choudhary") Bidrohi (poem) "Bidrohi" (, ) is a popular revolutionary Bengali poem and the most famous poem written by Kazi Nazrul Islam in December 1921. Originally published in several periodicals, the poem was first collected in 1922 in a volume titled