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    The Road Not Taken and other Selected Poems
    The Road Not Taken and other Selected Poems
    The Road Not Taken and other Selected Poems
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    The Road Not Taken and other Selected Poems

    By Robert Frost

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    Robert Frost is one of America's most beloved poets. He won four Pulitzer prizes for his poetry and was invited to read his poetry at John F. Kennedy's inauguration. His life was filled with personal tragedy which his poetry often reflected. Collected here are The Road Not Taken, The Death Of The Hired Man, The Mountain, Fire and Ice, The Generations Of Men, The Grindstone, The Witch of Coös, A Brook in the City, Design, House Fear, The Lockless Door, Storm Fear, and Snow
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateAug 15, 2013
    ISBN9781617208584
    The Road Not Taken and other Selected Poems
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    Robert Frost

    Robert Frost (1874–1963) was a poet who was much admired for his depictions of rural life in New England, command of American colloquial speech, and realistic verse portraying ordinary people in everyday situations.

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      The Road Not Taken and other Selected Poems - Robert Frost

      The Road Not Taken and other Selected Poems

      Robert Frost

      Sublime Books

      Copyright © 2013 Sublime Books

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 978-1-61720-858-4

      Contents

      The Road Not Taken

      The Death Of The Hired Man

      The Mountain

      Fire and Ice

      The Generations Of Men

      The Grindstone

      The Witch of Coös

      A Brook in the City

      Design

      House Fear

      The Lockless Door

      Storm Fear

      Snow

      The Road Not Taken

      Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

      And sorry I could not travel both

      And be one traveler, long I stood

      And looked down one as far as I could

      To where it bent in the undergrowth;

      Then took the other, as just as fair,

      And having perhaps the better claim,

      Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

      Though as for that, the passing there

      Had worn them really about the same,

      And both that morning equally lay

      In leaves no step had trodden black.

      Oh, I kept the first for another day!

      Yet knowing how way leads to way,

      I doubted if I should ever come back.

      I shall be telling this with a sigh

      Somewhere ages and ages hence:

      Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I

      took the one less traveled by,

      And that has made all the difference.

      The Death Of The Hired Man

      MARY sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table

      Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step,

      She ran on tip-toe down the darkened passage

      To meet him in the doorway with the news

      And put him on his guard. Silas is back.

      She pushed him outward with her through the door

      And shut it after her. Be kind, she said.

      She took the market things from Warren’s arms

      And set them on the porch, then drew him down

      To sit beside her on the wooden steps.

      "When was I ever anything but kind to him?

      But I’ll not have the fellow back," he said.

      "I told him so last haying, didn’t I?

      ‘If he left then,’ I said, ‘that ended it.’

      What good is he? Who else will harbour him

      At his age for the little he can do?

      What help he is there’s no depending on.

      Off he goes always when I need him most.

      ‘He thinks he ought to earn a little pay,

      Enough at least to buy tobacco with,

      So he won’t have to beg and be beholden.’

      ‘All right,’ I say, ‘I can’t afford to pay

      Any fixed wages, though I wish I could.’

      ‘Someone else can.’ ‘Then someone else will have to.’

      I shouldn’t mind his bettering himself

      If that was what it was. You can be certain,

      When he begins like that, there’s

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