2017.05.03 06:52
By Robert Frost More Robert Frost
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
Listen to Robert Frost read his poem, "The Road Not Taken"
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/the-road-not-taken-by-robert-frost
2017.05.03 07:07
2017.05.03 08:36
By Emily Dickinson More Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/if-i-can-stop-one-heart-from-breaking-by-emily-dickinson
2017.05.03 08:43
By Sara Teasdale More Sara Teasdale
Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings,
And children's faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.
Life has loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of gold,
Scent of pine trees in the rain,
Eyes that love you, arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy thoughts that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/barter-by-sara-teasdale
2017.05.03 09:13
By Langston Hughes More Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
2017.05.03 09:46
By Maya Angelou More Maya Angelou
I note the obvious differences
in the human family.
Some of us are serious,
some thrive on comedy.
Some declare their lives are lived
as true profundity,
and others claim they really live
the real reality.
The variety of our skin tones
can confuse, bemuse, delight,
brown and pink and beige and purple,
tan and blue and white.
I've sailed upon the seven seas
and stopped in every land,
I've seen the wonders of the world
not yet one common man.
I know ten thousand women
called Jane and Mary Jane,
but I've not seen any two
who really were the same.
Mirror twins are different
although their features jibe,
and lovers think quite different thoughts
while lying side by side.
We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.
I note the obvious differences
between each sort and type,
but we are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.
We are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.
We are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/human-family-by-maya-angelou
2017.05.06 13:10
By Robert Frost More Robert Frost
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 flake.
The 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.
Source: https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening-by-robert-frost
2017.05.06 23:15
몇년 전에 NY times 기사에 ,Robert Frost 가 이 유명한 시 "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
을 쓴것으로 생각 되는 Frost 가 산 적이 있는 old Farm House 를 어느 겨울날 Vermont 시골 teen ager 들이
술먹고 party-Vandalize 한 기사를 본 적이 있읍니다, 그 penalty 중 하나가 Middleberry College 교수가 Robert Frost 의 시
" The Rosad not Taken" 과 " Out,Out "를 강제로 읽혔다고--
찾아보니 벌써 한 10년 전 이야기이네요---
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/us/28land.html
2017.05.07 02:22
Thank you, Dr. Choh, for sharing the story.
I believe Robert Frost would have forgiven those kids
instead of the writer's imagining that the vandalism was a revenge
by the followers of Carl Sandberg.
It is refreshing to hear Robert Frost himself reciting his well known poem.