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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOCKED OUT; AS TOLD TO A CHILD, by ROBERT FROST Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: When we locked up the house at night
Last Line: At dusk to watch the moon down early.
Subject(s): Flowers; Night; Bedtime
First Line: When we locked up the house at night
Last Line: At dusk to watch the moon down early.
Subject(s): Flowers; Night; Bedtime
When we locked up the house at night,
We always locked the flowers outside
And cut them off from window light.
The time I dreamed the door was tried
And brushed with buttons upon sleeves,
The flowers were out there with the thieves.
Yet nobody molested them!
We did find one nasturtium
Upon the steps with bitten stem.
I may have been to blame for that:
I always thought it must have been
Some flower I played with as I sat
At dusk to watch the moon down early.
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