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The Road Not Taken
Project Gutenberg #29345: Robert Frost, Mountain Interval (New York: Henry Holt, 1916)
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Source: Project Gutenberg #29345: Robert Frost, Mountain Interval (New York: Henry Holt, 1916) Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29345 Public domain basis: First published in The Atlantic Monthly, August 1915; collected in Mountain Interval (1916); public domain in the United States. Coverage: Complete: the opening poem of Mountain Interval (printed in italics there).
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.