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 gray
 Is silver now with clinging mist.

 The desolate, deserted trees,
 The faded earth, the heavy sky,
 The beauties she so wryly 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 he so,
 And they are better for her praise.

I chanced to see this poem written on the whiteboard in front of our public library. It appeals to me for multiple reasons. I think it is possible for one to slowly or reflectively appreciate certain things through the eyes of someone else. I guess the very same piece of information can be viewed differently when expressed in different ways. And the other reason is that after having lived here in the East for close to 15 years, I have come to appreciate November in much the same way as the poet does. The starkness and grey of the evening calm the mind. One is not assaulted with bright summer heat, or vivid fall colors and forced to drink in the beauty of nature in huge breathless gulps. And so I guess I also now see the beauty of November, a month that I used to dread not so long ago. This now adds to the considerable list of Frost poems already on Minstrels where his body of work on nature and the seasons is quite extensive.

— Deepak

Minstrels Links

Seasons and Weather:
Poem #251, No! – Thomas Hood
Poem #648, The January Man – Dave Goulder
Poem #693, Strugnell’s Haiku – Wendy Cope
Poem #649, A Song of the Weather – Michael Flanders

Robert Frost:
Poem #51, The Road Not Taken
Poem #155, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Poem #170, The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
Poem #336, A Patch of Old Snow
Poem #681, The Secret Sits
Poem #730, Mending Wall
Poem #779, Fire and Ice
Poem #917, A Considerable Speck
Poem #985, Once by the Pacific
Poem #994, The Gift Outright
Poem #1012, Nothing Gold can Stay
Poem #1036, Range Finding
Poem #1272, Birches
Poem #1276, A Dream Pang
Poem #1284, A Hillside Thaw
Poem #1324, The Telephone
Poem #1373, Acceptance
Poem #1472, In a Disused Graveyard
Poem #1535, The Line-Gang