Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963 / San Francisco)

oh the music of the thrush at sunset and the beauty of the stars..fabulous!

Frost’s best poems carry their own inner music.
His gift as an observer is to become part of nature without ever wishing to intrude into what he is describing.
This humility in the face of a force that Frost feels to be greater than himself has never been better expressed than in the last verse of this remarkable poem, which ranks with Hardy’s The Darkling Thrush that may well have inspired it.

This beautiful poem is set to music by Randall Thompson in a set called Frostiana. The setting for Come In is for Women's voices with a solo flute part to portray the thrush. Other poems in the set are The Road Not Taken, The Pasture, Stopping by Woods, The Telephone and Choose Something Like a Star.