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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HILL WIFE: LONELINESS, by ROBERT FROST Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: One ought not to have to care / so much as you and I
Last Line: And their built or driven nests.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Solitude; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Loneliness
First Line: One ought not to have to care / so much as you and I
Last Line: And their built or driven nests.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Solitude; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Loneliness
Her Word
One ought not to have to care
So much as you and I
Care when the birds come round the house
To seem to say good-bye;
Or care so much when they come back
With whatever it is they sing;
The truth being we are as much
Too glad for the one thing
As we are too sad for the other here --
With birds that fill their breasts
But with each other and themselves
And their built or driven nests.
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