Robert Frost quotes
Famous lines from 4 works by Robert Frost, word for word, each with its place. Every work is free to read in full here.
The Road Not Taken poem, 1916
- 1
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
- 2
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear; - 3
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.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening poem, 1923
- 4
Whose woods these are I think I know.
- 5
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. - 6
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake. - 7
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
- 8
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Nothing Gold Can Stay poem, 1923
- 9
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold. - 10
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour. - 11
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief, - 12
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Fire and Ice poem, 1920
- 13
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice. - 14
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire. - 15
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
