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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HILL WIFE: THE OFT-REPEATED DREAM, by ROBERT FROST Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: She had no saying dark enough
Last Line: Of what the tree might do.
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives
First Line: She had no saying dark enough
Last Line: Of what the tree might do.
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives
She had no saying dark enough
For the dark pine that kept
Forever trying the window-latch
Of the room where they slept.
The tireless but ineffectual hands
That with every futile pass
Made the great tree seem as a little bird
Before the mystery of glass!
It never had been inside the room,
And only one of the two
Was afraid in an oft-repeated dream
Of what the tree might do.
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