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Snowwark
11-15-2002, 06:52 AM
My sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be.
She loves the bare, the withered tree,
She walks the sodden pasture lane.

Her pleasure will not let me stay.
She talks and I am fain to list:
She's glad the birds are gone away,
She's glad her simple worsted grady
Is silver now with clinging mist.

The desolate, deserted trees,
The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so ryly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
And vexes me for reason why.

Not yesterday I learned to know
The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell her so,
And they are better for her praise.

~ Robert Frost ~

TigH
11-15-2002, 07:55 AM
A beauty!!!! I started reading the first stanza (is that right?) and thought, "Is this Robert Frost?" I LOVE HIS POETRY!!!

Thanks, Snowwark! You always know how to bring a smile to my face!

amid chaos
11-15-2002, 12:56 PM
Certainly is a beauty...thanks Kim.

DixieDreamer
11-16-2002, 02:28 PM
The essence of fall. Perfect. :)

olena
11-16-2002, 04:12 PM
Thank you....:D

Snowwark
11-17-2002, 12:19 PM
I'm glad you liked it, I thought it was lovely too. :)

You're right TigH, and here's more information about a stanza than you'll probably ever need to know! :) :)

Stanza Group of lines in a poem that forms a metrical or thematic unit. Stanzas in poetry are like paragraphs in an essay. Each stanza is usually separated from others by a blank space on the page. Some common stanzaic forms are the couplet (two lines), tercet (three lines), quatrain (four lines), sestet (six lines), and octave (eight lines).

:)