The Telephone by Robert Frost

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend July 24, 2016   The Telephone   Robert Frost

“When I was just as far as I could walk From here to-day, There was an hour All still When leaning with my head against a flower I heard you talk. Don’t say I didn’t, for I heard you say— You spoke from that flower on the window sill— Do you remember what it was you said?”   “First tell me what it was you thought you heard.”   “Having found the flower and driven a bee away, I leaned my head, And holding by the stalk, I listened and I thought I caught the word— What was it? Did you call me by my name? Or did you say— Someone said ‘Come’—I heard it as I bowed.”   “I may have thought as much, but not aloud.”   “Well, so I came.”            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “The Telephone” was published in Mountain Interval (Henry Holt and Company, 1916).   Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco. His numerous books of poetry include North of Boston (Henry Holt and Company, 1918) and In the Clearing (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962). He received four Pulitzer Prizes and served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1958 to 1959. Frost died in Boston on January 29, 1963. Poetry by Frost   The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged (Henry Holt and Co., 1979)   "Advice to a Prophet" by Richard Wilbur "First Things to Hand" by Robert Pinsky "A Man may make a Remark (952)" by Emily Dickinson Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038