My November Guest

Well, since it now November, I thought this poem would be appropriate. It is a poem by Robert Frost that I just discovered yesterday, actually. I really love poetry as it really describes the human condition whether it be tragedy or love in such a beautiful way. I guess it is the romanticist coming out in me. There is a reason I enjoy Romanticism paintings so much. Anyways, enjoy!

My November Guest

My Sorrow, when she’s here with me, 

Thinks these dark days of autumn rain

Are beautiful as days can be;

She loves the bare, the withered tree, 

She walks the sodden pasture lane. 

Her pleasure will not let me stay.

She talks and I am fain to list.

She’s glad the birds are gone away,

She’s glad her simple worsted grey

Is silver now with clinging mist.

The desolate, deserted trees,

The faded earth, the heavy sky,

The beauties she so truly sees,

She thinks I have no eye for these, 

And vexes me for reason why.

Not yesterday I learned to know

The love of bare November days

Before the coming of the snow,

But it were vain to tell her so, 

And they are better for her praise.