Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
2202242 Introduction to the Study of English Poetry
Robert Frost
(March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
Nothing Gold Can Stay
(1923)
Nature's first green is gold, |
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Her hardest hue to hold. | |
Her early leaf's a flower; | |
But only so an hour. | |
Then leaf subsides to leaf. | 5 |
So Eden sank to grief, | |
So dawn goes down to day. | |
Nothing gold can stay. |
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
(1923)
Whose woods these are I think I know. |
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His house is in the village though; | |
He will not see me stopping here | |
To watch his woods fill up with snow. | |
My little horse must think it queer | 5 |
To stop without a farmhouse near | |
Between the woods and frozen lake | |
The darkest evening of the year. | |
He gives his harness bells a shake | |
To ask if there is some mistake. | 10 |
The only other sound's the sweep | |
Of easy wind and downy flake. | |
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. | |
But I have promises to keep, | |
And miles to go before I sleep, | 15 |
And miles to go before I sleep. |
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