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Robert Frost
Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26, 1874. He...
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FURTHER READING
Poems about Time
Figure
by Marjorie Welish
Individual Time
by Alice Notley
Mimosa
by Mary Ruefle
On Time
by John Milton
Poem with Lines from Pierre Reverdy
by Sandra Simonds
Real Time
by Charlie Smith
Slur
by Jacek Gutorow
The Edges of Time
by Kay Ryan
The Moon in Time Lapse
by David Rivard
The Sun-Dial
by Adelaide Crapsey
Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
What God Knew
by Marianne Boruch
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Meeting and Passing

 
by Robert Frost

As I went down the hill along the wall
There was a gate I had leaned at for the view
And had just turned from when I first saw you
As you came up the hill. We met. But all
We did that day was mingle great and small
Footprints in summer dust as if we drew
The figure of our being less than two
But more than one as yet. Your parasol
Pointed the decimal off with one deep thrust.
And all the time we talked you seemed to see
Something down there to smile at in the dust.
(Oh, it was without prejudice to me!)
Afterward I went past what you had passed
Before we met, and you what I had passed.






This poem appeared in Poem-A-Day on March 26, 2013. Browse the Poem-A-Day archive.
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