Come In
As I came to the edge of the woods,
Thrush music—hark!
Now it was dusk outside,
Inside it was dark.
Too dark in the woods for a bird
By slight of wing
To better its perch for the night,
Though it still could sing.
The last of the light of the sun
That had died in the west
Still lived for one song more
In a thrush’s breast.
Far in the pillared dark
Thrush music went—
Almost like a call to come in
To the dark and lament.
But no, I was out for stars:
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked,
And I hadn’t been.
by Robert Frost
from Homage to Robert Frost
Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1996