Hush! A Moment, Please

Wind and Window Flower

by: Robert Frost

Lovers, forget your love,

And list to the love of these,

She a window flower,

And he a winter breeze.

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When the frosty window veil

Was melted down at noon,

And the caged yellow bird

Hung over her in tune,

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He marked her though the pane,

He could not help but mark,

And only passed her by

To come again at dark.

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He was a winter wind,

Concerned with ice and snow,

Dead weeds and unmated birds,

And little of love could know.

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But he signed upon the sill,

He gave the sash a shake,

As witness all within

Who lay that night awake.

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Perchance he half prevailed

To win her for the flight

From the firelight looking-glass

And warm stove-window light.

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But the flower leaned aside

And thought of naught to say,

And morning found the breeze

A hundred miles away.