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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHRISTMAS EVE, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: The door is on the latch tonight
Last Line: Where love might enter in
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;
First Line: The door is on the latch tonight
Last Line: Where love might enter in
Subject(s): Christmas; "nativity, The;
The door is on the latch tonight,
The hearth-fire is aglow,
I seem to hear soft passing feet—
The Christ child in the snow.
My heart is open wide tonight
For stranger, kith or kin;
I would not bar a single door
Where love might enter in.
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