Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOR ONCE, THEN, SOMETHING, by ROBERT FROST


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First Line: Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs
Last Line: Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.
Subject(s): Summer


OTHERS taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs
Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
Deeper down in the well than where the water
Gives me back in a shining surface picture
My myself in the summer heaven, godlike
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.
Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
Something more of the depths -- and then I lost it.
Water came to rebuke the too clear water.
One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?
Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.








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