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Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening


              1Whose woods these are I think I know.
              2His house is in the village though;
              3He will not see me stopping here
              4To watch his woods fill up with snow.

              5My little horse must think it queer
              6To stop without a farmhouse near
              7Between the woods and frozen lake
              8The darkest evening of the year.

              9He gives his harness bells a shake
            10To ask if there is some mistake.
            11The only other sound's the sweep
            12Of easy wind and downy flake.

            13The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
            14But I have promises to keep,
            15And miles to go before I sleep,
            16And miles to go before I sleep.

Notes

13] Possibly indebted to Archibald Lampman's lines, "The stilly woods / Grow dark and deep" (from "Evening", lines 7-8; courtesy of Howard Leigh).

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1923), p. 87. D-11 0397 Fisher Library.
First publication date: 1923
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 2:2002/1/16*1:2009/3/3

Rhyme: aaba bbcb ccdc dddd

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