The Hill Wife

These are pictures that I took from some of my recent walks. It's so pretty to see the autumn leaves buried under a clear sheet of thin ice. The poem is about a woman who longs to run away and finally does one day.

The Hill Wife

The Oft-Repeated Dream

SHE had no saying dark enough
For the dark pine that kept
Forever trying the window-latch
Of the room where they slept.
The tireless but ineffectual hands
That with every futile pass
Made the great tree seem as a little bird
Before the mystery of glass!

It never had been inside the room,
And only one of the two
Was afraid in an oft-repeated dream
Of what the tree might do.
It was too lonely for her there,
And too wild,
And since there were but two of them,
And no child.

And work was little in the house,
She was free,
And followed where he furrowed field,
Or felled tree.

She rested on a log and tossed
The fresh chips,
With a song only to herself
On her lips.

And once she went to break a bough
Of black alder.
She strayed so far she scarcely heard
When he called her -

And didn't answer - didn't speak -
Or return.
She stood, and then she ran and hid
In the fern.

He never found her, though he looked
Everywhere,
And he asked at her mother's house
Was she there.

Sudden and swift and light as that
The ties gave,
And he learned of finalities
Besides the grave.

Category:

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• Robert
• Frost
• poetry
• the
• hill
• wife
• freedom
• escape

[Tempo435]

This is so beautiful! Did you write this?

[loveyoutodeathbut]

The Hill Wife was written by Robert Frost. Thank you so much for your comments and support =)

[jcmegabyte]

Very nice - and all original work, too... that in itself makes it special :-)

[loveyoutodeathbut]

Oh, I'm special all right =%

[amarcordeon]

Wonderful pictures of the natur.

Very nice video

*****

Lillo

[loveyoutodeathbut]

Thank you so much Lillo!

[trisoctehedron]

Another heartbreaking poem, but beautiful, like the one you did about the lonliness of the old drunk man.

I have to prepare to get emotional when I come around here.

Being flip is much easier.

[nightwolf014]

very nice.

[wbter]

" ? "

[timbco475]

your very welcome . and you know i will keep you in check if need be lmao

[tygre97]

Would I suggest such a thing? I thought you knew me better than that.

[loveyoutodeathbut]

Thanks for the nice coment loveporttOO =)