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,

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.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Frost

 

Links

  • The Robert Frost Tutorial (places and poetry, research tips, hallmarks of Frost's poetry, the poetics of Robert Frost, the Frost Free Library, and more)

 

Poem Notes

 

 

Reference and Further Reading

 

 

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