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The following Poem by Robert Frost appeared in his collection Mountain Interval published in 1920.  This one is my personal favorite.  Enjoy!

 

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 on 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.

Robert Frost  Mountain Interval 1920

 

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. It may be copyrighted outside the U.S.

Photo Credit: "Robert Frost, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front." Between 1910 and 1920. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.

 

"A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words. "

Robert Frost
Letter to Louis Untermeyer (January 1, 1916)