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Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
Comes
Night
Sash
Never
Lowered
Curtain
Curtains
Drawn
Window
Tree

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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.
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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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