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.
—Robert Frost, class of 1896
“Dust of Snow” from the book The Poetry of Robert Frost edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1923, 1969 by Henry Holt and Co., © 1951 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Co. LLC.
