The Telephone – Full Text Of Poem By Robert Frost
THE TELEPHONE – In this topic, we are going to read the full text of the poem, “The Telephone” written by Robert Frost.
About
As mentioned above, it is a well-known poem written by American poet Robert Frost. The poem was published in Henry Holt and Company’s Mountain Internal in 1916, according to Poets.
The website Genius states that it is a narrative love poem. It is described by the website as a light-hearted conversational form of the poem which lacks contextual description that allows the readers to openly interpret the meaning of this poem.
Full Poem
Here is the full text of the poem uplifted from Poets:
“When I was just as far as I could walk
From here to-day,
There was an hour
All still
When leaning with my head against a flower
I heard you talk.
Don’t say I didn’t, for I heard you say—
You spoke from that flower on the window sill—
Do you remember what it was you said?”
“First tell me what it was you thought you heard.”
“Having found the flower and driven a bee away,
I leaned my head,
And holding by the stalk,
I listened and I thought I caught the word—
What was it? Did you call me by my name?
Or did you say—
Someone said ‘Come’—I heard it as I bowed.”
“I may have thought as much, but not aloud.”
“Well, so I came.”
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