Something New: A Previously Unknown Poem by Robert Frost

The handwritten poem was found in a second-edition copy of North of Boston and published in The New Yorker in February 2025.

Nothing New

By Robert Frost
Amherst 1918

One moment when the dust to-day
Against my face was turned to spray,
I dreamed the winter dream again
I dreamed when I was young at play,
Yet strangely not more sad than then—
Nothing new—
Though I am further upon my way
The same dream again.