Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Whose woods these are I think I know

by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Whose woods these are I think I know

Language: English

Our translations: GER

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farm-house near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sounds the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

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Text Authorship:

by Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", written 1922, appears in New Hampshire, first published 1923 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Margaret Bonds (1913 - 1972), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", 1963 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Nadia Boulanger (1887 - 1979) and by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", published 1970 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Leslie Crabtree (b. 1941), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", 2008 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ann MacDonald Diers , "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", published 1953 [sung text not yet checked]
by Frank Glazer (b. 1915), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", published 1946 [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Gruenberg (1884 - 1964), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", op. 24 no. 3, published 1927, from Four Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", copyright © 2019, first performed 1990 [ baritone and piano ], from Winter Windows -- 7 songs for Baritone and Piano, no. 7, E. C. Schirmer Music Company, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing Group [sung text not yet checked]
by Alva Henderson (b. 1940), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", 1968, first performed 1970, from A Seasonal Songbook, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by William Barnes Hoskins (1917 - 1997), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" [sung text not yet checked]
by Andrew Hudson , "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" [sung text not yet checked]
by John La Montaine (1920 - 2013), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", published 1963 [sung text not yet checked]
by Lowell Liebermann (b. 1961), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", op. 104 no. 6 (2007) [ baritone and piano ], from Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by John Mitchell (b. 1941), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", op. 48 no. 3 (1982) [ mezzo-soprano, cello, and piano ], from Five Poems by Robert Frost, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Otto Mortensen (1907 - 1986), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", published 1945, from Four Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Nick Peros (b. 1963), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" [sung text not yet checked]
by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", 1974 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Annetta Rosser (1938 - 1998), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", published 1997, from Winter Songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Sargent (1910 - 1987), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", 1950 [sung text not yet checked]
by Albert Daniel Schmutz (1887 - ?), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Donald Ibrahim Swann (1923 - 1994), "Stopping by Woods" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Randall Thompson (1899 - 1984), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", published 1959 [ TBB chorus and piano ], from Frostiana [sung text not yet checked]
by Douglas Gordon Weiland (b. 1954), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", op. 67 no. 1 (2022-2023) [ baritone and piano ], from Seven Songs to Poems by Robert Frost, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 108