A Passing Glimpse

by Robert Lee Frost — a poem card from Justes Mots

Frost captures the frustration of glimpsing something beautiful but fleeting—flowers seen from a passing car that vanish before identification. The poem reflects on how life offers only momentary impressions of beauty, leaving us wondering what we've missed. It explores the bittersweet tension between desire to know and the impossibility of stopping time.

To Ridgely Torrence
On Last Looking into His 'Hesperides'


I often see flowers from a passing car
That are gone before I can tell what they are.

I want to get out of the train and go back…

Themes: sympathy · grief · reflection · long-distance