Favorite Robert Frost Poem?

I love that one, too! It is an awesome poem. I love it! You'd think it was everyone's favorite poem, don't you?

The Bearer of Evil Tidings

The bearer of evil tidings,

When he was halfway there,

Remembered that evil tidings

Were a dangerous thing to bear.

So when he came to the parting

Where one road led to the throne

And one went off to the mountains

And into the wild unknown,

He took the one to the mountains.

He ran through the Vale of Cashmere,

He ran through the rhodendrons,

Till he came to the land of Pamir.

And there in a precipice valley

A girl of his age he met

Took him home to her bower

Or he might be running yet.

She taught him the tribe's religion:

How, ages and ages since,

A princess en route from China

To marry a Persian prince

Had been found with child; and her army

Had come to a troubled halt.

And though a god was the father

And nobody else was at fault,

It had seemed discreet to remain there

And neither go on nor go back.

So they stayed and declared a village

There in the land of the Yak.

And the child that came of the princess

Established a royal line,

And his mandates were given heed to

Because he was born divine.

And that was why there were people

On one Himalayan shelf:

And the bearer of evil tidings

Decided to stay there himself.

At least he had this in common

With the race he chose to adopt:

They had both of them had their reasons

For stopping where they had stopped.

As for his evil tidings,

Belshazzar's overthrow,

Why hurry to tell Belshazzar

What soon enough he would know?

The Road Not Taken

It's either "Nothing Gold Can Stay", or "The Road Not Taken."

BTW, Frost did write many other good poems, though they are much less known.

Frost huh? Whatever the shortest one is, I guess. Frost is to poetry what Thomas Kincaid is to painting -- nothing but good marketing.

Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening...

yea i had to read him last yr for english. i like him too. i am not sure what it is called, but he has one about the ocean that i like a lot too..

I really enjoy "Nothing Gold Can Stay" also. Some other favorites are "Acquainted With the Night" and "The Road Not Taken"

only one i can remember is "stopping by a woods" etc. no "mending wall," that always made me think. still haven't decided whether wall is best, ha! thinking can be a bad thing for some like me. not sure that it didn't hurt more than it helped.

My favourite poems of Frost are

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

The Road Not Taken

and

Mending Walls.......

yes. I like it too.