{"id":950,"date":"2011-04-24T02:20:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T02:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=950"},"modified":"2011-04-24T02:20:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T02:20:58","slug":"love-and-a-question-by-robert-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/love-and-a-question-by-robert-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Love and a Question by Robert Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from Sun Newspapers and Library of Congress<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/h1>\n

Love and a Question<\/h1>\n

by Robert Frost<\/p>\n

A STRANGER came to the door at eve,
\nAnd he spoke the bridegroom fair.
\nHe bore a green-white stick in his hand,
\nAnd, for all burden, care.
\nHe asked with the eyes more than the lips
\nFor a shelter for the night,
\nAnd he turned and looked at the road afar
\nWithout a window light.
\nThe bridegroom came forth into the porch
\nWith, ‘Let us look at the sky,
\nAnd question what of the night to be,
\nStranger, you and I.’
\nThe woodbine leaves littered the yard,
\nThe woodbine berries were blue,
\nAutumn, yes, winter was in the wind;
\n‘Stranger, I wish I knew.’
\nWithin, the bride in the dusk alone
\nBent over the open fire,
\nHer face rose-red with the glowing coal
\nAnd the thought of the heart’s desire.
\nThe bridegroom looked at the weary road,
\nYet saw but her within,
\nAnd wished her heart in a case of gold
\nAnd pinned with a silver pin.
\nThe bridegroom thought it little to give
\nA dole of bread, a purse,
\nA heartfelt prayer for the poor of God,
\nOr for the rich a curse;
\nBut whether or not a man was asked
\nTo mar the love of two
\nBy harboring woe in the bridal house,
\nThe bridegroom wished he knew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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