Robert Frost’s “Good Hours”

I’m posting a series of poems and excerpts from poems and essay that I love. Today’s is Robert Frost’s “Good Hours.” The rhyme in the 5th and 6th lines breaks my heart every time.

GOOD HOURS

I had for my winter evening walk—
No one at all with whom to talk,
But I had the cottages in a row
Up to their shining eyes in snow.

And I thought I had the folk within:
I had the sound of a violin;
I had a glimpse through curtain laces
Of youthful forms and youthful faces.

I had such company outward bound.
I went till there were no cottages found.
I turned and repented, but coming back
I saw no window but that was black.

Over the snow my creaking feet
Disturbed the slumbering village street
Like profanation, by your leave,
At ten o’clock of a winter eve.

                        Robert Frost