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Rim
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Rim asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 1 decade ago

'And miles to go before I sleep'-from where this line has been taken?who composed this?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Yep, it's Robert Frost. He has often quoted by John F. Kennedy so I wondered if you got this section from something JFK said or wrote?

    If you come to New Hampshire you can visit his homestead and actually see some of the places that he referenced in his poems.

    Also on NH PBS - our channel 11 - they have Fritz Weatherby (from Chronicle on TV ) who does short poetry episodes when they need fillers between shows..

    Hope you explore the American poets Wadsworth, Longfellow,Whittier - they have added so much to the fabric of American Literature..keep reading!

    Source(s): Poet slammer in NH
  • 1 decade ago

    Robert Frost wrote this line. It's part of his beautiful poem, Stopping by the Woods, about walking in the woods, and watching the woods fill up with snow.

    Another of his memorable poems is called The Road Not Taken.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    here ya go

    Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'

    Whose woods these are I think I know,

    His house is in the village though.

    He will not see me stopping here,

    To watch his woods fill up with snow.

    My little horse must think it queer,

    To stop without a farmhouse near,

    Between the woods and frozen lake,

    The darkest evening of the year.

    He gives his harness bells a shake,

    To ask if there is some mistake.

    The only other sound's the sweep,

    Of easy wind and downy flake.

    The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

    But I have promises to keep,

    And miles to go before I sleep,

    And miles to go before I sleep.

    -- Robert Frost

  • 1 decade ago

    "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. Great poem.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    sorry

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