It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal woundthat he will never get over it.
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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, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season.Robert Frost
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest keep us here All simply in the springing of the year.
Robert Frost
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.
Robert Frost
The land was ours before we were the land's.
Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Robert Frost
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those; Not in position to look too close.
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