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elleng

(140,141 posts)
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 10:16 PM Feb 2025

A recently discovered poem by Robert Frost, written in 1918,

has been published for the first time in our centenary Anniversary Issue. (New Yorker)

Nothing New
By Robert Frost

One moment when the dust to-day
Against my face was turned to spray,
I dreamed the winter dream again
I dreamed when I was young at play,
Yet strangely not more sad than then—
Nothing new—
Though I am further upon my way
The same dream again.

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A recently discovered poem by Robert Frost, written in 1918, (Original Post) elleng Feb 2025 OP
Meh..... Karadeniz Feb 2025 #1
I learned a voice was always inside by rereading Frost. Waterguy Jul 5 #2
Thanks elleng! NCgayguy Jul 6 #3

Waterguy

(302 posts)
2. I learned a voice was always inside by rereading Frost.
Sat Jul 5, 2025, 08:55 PM
Jul 5

Frost, with all his words, was a lucky soul always torn away by discovering the world that like a mirage
has movement in time that is relatable.
Old time, the child and newness, adulthood, challenges for survival, gullible, the amazingly truthful and simplistic goals
of true human happiness, frailness, the amazing unyielding incongruity that is somehow acceptable and rationalized, but never truly makes any sense.
And always, the past. The past is now, in the past, as the winds blow, and as my own youth has changed all the adorned golden
promises like an old barn.
We need more like him. More readers too.

NCgayguy

(253 posts)
3. Thanks elleng!
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 07:30 AM
Jul 6

I've always enjoyed reading Robert Frost. He was extremely adept with expressing universal thought.

Thank you, truly
Reis

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