Robert Frost. Acquainted with the Night

Acquainted with the Night

By Robert Frost

I have been one acquainted with the night. 

I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. 

I have outwalked the furthest city light. 

I have looked down the saddest city lane. 

I have passed by the watchman on his beat 

And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. 

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet 

When far away an interrupted cry 

Came over houses from another street, 

But not to call me back or say good-bye; 

And further still at an unearthly height, 

One luminary clock against the sky 

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. 

I have been one acquainted with the night.

Robert Frost, "Acquainted with the Night" from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1964, 1970 by Leslie Frost Ballantine. Copyright 1936, 1942 © 1956 by Robert Frost. Copyright 1923, 1928, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Co. Reprinted with the permission of Henry Holt & Company, LLC.

Source: Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2004)

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Onion Relish

Onion Relish

Ingredients:

• 8 Onions
• 2 Bay leaves
• 25ml Olive oil
• 200g Brown Sugar
• 2 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 150ml Balsamic vinegar
• 150ml Red wine vinegar

Method.

Fry up the onions, bay leaves, in the oil till the onions are just starting to go brown.  Throw the rest of the ingredients in and simmer till they have reached a syrupy stage then put in a clean jar and leave for a couple of months.  Its as easy as that.