A Patch Of Old Snow

Robert Frost · 1916

Catalog grade guidance: 5–12 — Mountain Interval (1916), US public domain.

9 content lines · 53 words · Est. recitation about 32 sec (approx.)

Public-domain text for reading and recitation practice. Source: Project Gutenberg eBooks #3021 (A Boy's Will, 1913), #3026 (North of Boston, 1914) and #29345 (Mountain Interval, 1916).Estimated time uses ~120 words/minute plus short pauses—not a contest rule.

A PATCH OF OLD SNOW

  There's a patch of old snow in a corner
    That I should have guessed
  Was a blow-away paper the rain
    Had brought to rest.

  It is speckled with grime as if
    Small print overspread it,
  The news of a day I've forgotten--
    If I ever read it.