'Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word,' he said.

'Is anybody there?' said the Traveler, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence chomped the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor.

Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Aye, t…

'What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.