Christmas Eve by Robert Browning

Christmas Eve by Robert Browning; -- A classic work of poetry by one of the masters that has stood the test of time and still remains popular today. **** Out of the little chapel I burst
Into the fresh night-air again.
Five minutes full, I waited first
In the doorway, to escape the rain
That drove in gusts down the common's centre
At the edge of which the chapel stands,
Before I plucked up heart to enter.
Heaven knows how many sorts of hands
Reached past me, groping for the latch
Of the inner door that hung on catch