Miscellaneous Poems to 1920/The Lockless Door

by Robert Frost

For other versions of this work, see The Lockless Door.

7. The Lockless Door

(From A Miscellany of American Poetry 1920 [New York, 1920].)

It went many years,
But at last came a knock,
And I thought of the door
With no lock to lock.
  
I blew out the light,5
I tip-toed the floor,
And raised both hands
In prayer to the door.
  
But the knock came again
My window was wide;10
I climbed on the sill
And descended outside.
  
Back over the sill
I bade a “Come in”
To whoever the knock15
At the door may have been.
  
So at a knock
I emptied my cage
To hide in the world
And alter with age.20