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Dust of Snow

By Robert Frost

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.

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Dust of Snow

By Robert Frost

About this Poet

Portrait of smiling American poet Robert Frost, 1962. A cropped version of this photograph was used on the cover of the March 30, 1962, issue of Life magazine. (

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, but his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1884 following his father’s death. The move was actually a return, for Frost’s ancestors were originally New Englanders, and Frost became famous for his poetry’s engagement with New England locales,...

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