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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,lyric poem in iambic tetrameter quatrains by Robert Frost, published in New Hampshire (1923). The poet stops his horse in the winter twilight to observe the beauty of the forest scene, and then is moved to continue his journey:
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep….
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