- I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Robert Frost statue, Amherst Center, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Photo by Bobby 17543 in Wikipedia article on the poet. Also see quotes in Wikiquote by Robert Frost.
- Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.- "The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
- 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.
American Robert Frost
If I should die, think only this of me
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.
The House On the Hill
by Edward Arlington Robinson
They are all gone away
The House is shut and still
There is nothing more to say.
Walter de la Mare
The Listeners
‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
‘Is there anybody there?’ he said.
...
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:—
‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,’ he said.
...
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.
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Walter de la Mare lived in England and is featured on the Penge heritage trail in England. In a good year (as things were before Covid-19) an annual festival was held with readings.
Useful Websites
https://www.pengeheritagetrail.org.uk/penge-people/walter-de-la-mare/
About the Author
See poems by Angela on travel in a previous post
Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places, landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.
Angela Lansbury is a member of Toastmasters International.
About the Author Angela Lansbury
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Angela Lansbury B A Hons is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books.
About Angela The Speaker & Trainer
Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.
Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President Public Relations, Immediate Past President. VPPR
Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.
Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK
Past meetings have included Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on bha.learncool.sg .
Recent meetings of BHA included an educational session on using Powerpoint for posters.
Next BHA meetings, always first Wednesday evening, 7 pm Singapore time. Next meeting is the third Saturday afternoon, June 19th 2pm Singapore time. Inauguration of the new committee by the incoming Director of S, plus a lively speech on teamwork.
Angela The Blogger
Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:
See next post on sculptor Tom Harvey.
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