Robert Frost

SOME say the world will end in fire,   
Some say in ice.   
From what I’ve tasted of desire   
I hold with those who favor fire.   
But if it had to perish twice,          
I think I know enough of hate   
To know that for destruction ice   
Is also great   
And would suffice.

 

From The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1916, 1923, 1928, 1930, 1934, 1939, 1947, 1949, © 1969 by Holt Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Copyright 1936, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1953, 1954, © 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962 by Robert Frost. Copyright © 1962, 1967, 1970 by Leslie Frost Ballantine.