DEED - A deed knocks first at thought

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A deed knocks first at thought,
And then it knocks at will.
That is the manufacturing spot,
And will at home and well.

It then goes out an act,
Or is entombed so still
That only to the ear of God
Its doom is audible.

More poems by Emily Dickinson

We outgrow love like other things / And put it in the drawer,

THE blunder is to estimate,– / Eternity is Then,

To fight aloud is very brave, / But gallanter, I know,

She slept beneath a tree / Remembered but by me.