Source: Robert Frost, New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes (New York: Henry Holt, 1923), first edition, Grace Notes, p. 87 (Internet Archive page images, leaf n101); cross-checked with Project Gutenberg #58611
Source URL: https://archive.org/details/goog_a9xaAAAAMAAJ; https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58611
Public domain basis: First published in The New Republic, 7 March 1923; collected in New Hampshire (1923); public domain in the United States (published before 1931).
Coverage: Complete: the poem as printed on page 87 of the 1923 first edition of New Hampshire, including the full stop after “dark and deep” in line 13 (many later editions print a comma).


# Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

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.