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269c5f1	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 leav..	poetry	Robert Frost
66c2c62	These 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.		Robert Frost
f5aa46e	Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice		Robert Frost
fdf1cfe	Two roads diverged in a wood, and I	individuality choice inspirational consequence	robert frost
6437ba5	I am not a teacher, but an awakener.	learning education inspirational mentoring carpe-diem	Robert Frost
0eb3ade	Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -	individuality inspirational consequence	robert frost
7931c44	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. So Eden sank to grief,	poem nature	Robert Frost
9faca11	The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt,	rain	Robert Frost
d5eba68	Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.	caution cautionary inspirational advice	Robert Frost
0c85216	They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.		Robert Frost
5f36a75	There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.	inspirational teachers	Robert Frost
3b574ab	The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean-	poetry love	Robert Frost
ebb0988	I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane.		Robert Frost
bc93b11	We dance round in a ring and suppose	inspirational	Robert Frost
1aae45b	I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.	time nature youth love	Robert Frost
8e7cc07	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 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 f..	poetry	Robert Frost
a438492	The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood		Robert Frost
6a5caa8	Acquainted with the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain--and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; ..	depression poetry isolation	Robert Frost
961e47f	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-road-not-taken	Robert Frost
3e63caf	INTO MY OWN One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set for..		Robert Frost
c74ea3e	Come over the hills and far with me And be my love in the rain.		Robert Frost
65ce33c	Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason,	poetry	Robert Frost
dd802db	To Earthward" Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air That crossed me from sweet things, The flow of--was it musk From hidden grapevine springs Downhill at dusk? I had the swirl and ache From sprays of honeysuckle That when they're gathered shake Dew on the knuckle. I craved strong sweets, but those Seemed strong when I was young; The petal of the rose It was that stung. Now no joy ..		Robert Frost
fc9ddf0	I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.		Robert Frost
3a992d6	GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to ..	poetry	Robert Frost
c87d8b0	I turned to speak to God About the world's despair		Robert Frost
d8ea8cd	When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twit..		Robert Frost
4e1511f	I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.	poetry	Robert Frost
68a8b1a	The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind-	poem life	Robert Frost
a16e9a9	God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open	god gardens	Robert Frost
5faec0a	The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length		Robert Frost
2a093f6	Deliver us from committees.		Robert Frost
20ce61b	The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.		Robert Frost
6393a7d	Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.		Robert Frost
982fa4a	Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.		Robert Frost
1d88584	To warm the frozen swamp as best it could With the slow smokeless burning of decay.		Robert Frost
3b31fcf	The little graveyard where my people are! So small the window frames the whole of it.		Robert Frost
970b90b	We love the things we love for what they are.		Robert Frost
22e84a4	The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.		Robert Frost
001d342	The world has room to make a bear feel free; The universe seems cramped to you and me.		Robert Frost
03bd525	Let me be the one To do what is done.		Robert Frost
2c29103	Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.		Robert Frost
c9924e1	The old dog barks backward without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.		Robert Frost
0edeeca	Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.		Robert Frost

269c5f1

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 leav..

poetry

Robert Frost

66c2c62

These 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.

Robert Frost

f5aa46e

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice

Robert Frost

fdf1cfe

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I

individuality choice inspirational consequence

robert frost

6437ba5

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

learning education inspirational mentoring carpe-diem

Robert Frost

0eb3ade

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -

individuality inspirational consequence

robert frost

7931c44

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. So Eden sank to grief,

poem nature

Robert Frost

9faca11

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt,

rain

Robert Frost

d5eba68

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

caution cautionary inspirational advice

Robert Frost

0c85216

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

Robert Frost

5f36a75

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

inspirational teachers

Robert Frost

3b574ab

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean-

poetry love

Robert Frost

ebb0988

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane.

Robert Frost

bc93b11

We dance round in a ring and suppose

inspirational

Robert Frost

1aae45b

I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.

time nature youth love

Robert Frost

8e7cc07

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 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 f..

poetry

Robert Frost

a438492

The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood

Robert Frost

6a5caa8

Acquainted with the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain--and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; ..

depression poetry isolation

Robert Frost

961e47f

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-road-not-taken

Robert Frost

3e63caf

INTO MY OWN One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set for..

Robert Frost

c74ea3e

Come over the hills and far with me And be my love in the rain.

Robert Frost

65ce33c

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason,

poetry

Robert Frost

dd802db

To Earthward" Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air That crossed me from sweet things, The flow of--was it musk From hidden grapevine springs Downhill at dusk? I had the swirl and ache From sprays of honeysuckle That when they're gathered shake Dew on the knuckle. I craved strong sweets, but those Seemed strong when I was young; The petal of the rose It was that stung. Now no joy ..

Robert Frost

fc9ddf0

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

Robert Frost

3a992d6

GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to ..

poetry

Robert Frost

c87d8b0

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair

Robert Frost

d8ea8cd

When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twit..

Robert Frost

4e1511f

I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

poetry

Robert Frost

68a8b1a

The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind-

poem life

Robert Frost

a16e9a9

God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open

god gardens