The Telephone

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Title:     The Telephone
Author: Robert Frost [More Titles by Frost]

"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."

[The end]
Robert Frost's poem: Telephone

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