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/poets/langston_hughes/poems/16947 Langston Hughes Poems Back to Poems Page Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry upLike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore--And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over--like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Or does it explode? Emily Dickinson Poems Back to Poems Page Nobody knows this little Rose by Emily Dickinson Nobody knows this little Rose --It might a pilgrim beDid I not take it from the waysAnd lift it up to thee.Only a Bee will miss it --Only a Butterfly,Hastening from far journey --On its breast to lie --Only a Bird will wonder --Only a Breeze will sigh --Ah Little Rose -- how easyFor such as thee to die! **** /frost/roadnot.htm Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. Ah Little Rose -- how easyFor such as thee to die! **** Bond and FreeLove has earth to which she clingsWith hills and circling arms about--Wall within wall to shut fear out.But Thought has need of no such things,For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings.On snow and sand and turn, I seeWhere Love has left a printed traceWith straining in the worlds embrace.And such is Love and glad to beBut Thought has