I love poetry! It's rhythmic quality and creative rhyming makes me want to not only read it but recite it as well. Here I want to share some of my favorite poems - those I've run across over time and those I have yet to discover. One of my favorite poets:
Robert Frost
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Robert Frost was born March 26, 1874 in San Francisco but later made his home in New England. One of his favorite subjects seem to be rural life in New England. He was the winner of 4 Pulitzer Prizes and was considered one of the most celebrated pets in American literature. He left this life on January 29, 1963. You can find out more information at Robert Frost - Wikipedia.
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening is my favorite poem. I memorized it years ago and can still recall it. Robert Frost himself regarded this as his best work. Enjoy!
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
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
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.
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,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Copyright Credit: Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost. Reprinted with the permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.
Source: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays (Library of America, 1995)
