1.

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

2.

The Sick Rose

William Blake

O Rose, thou art sick!

The invisible worm

That flies in the night,

¡n the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy,

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

3.

George Herbert

Having been tenant long to a rich Lord, 
Not thriving, I resolved to be bold, 
And make a suit unto him, to afford 
A new small-rented lease, and cancel the old. 

In heaven at his manor I him sought: 
They told me there, that he was lately gone 
About some land, which he had dearly bought 
Long since on earth, to take possession. 

I straight returned, and knowing his great birth, 
Sought him accordingly in great resorts; 
In cities, theatres, gardens, parks, and courts: 
At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth 

Of thieves and murderers:  there I him espied, 
Who straight, Your suit is granted, said, and died.

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