You’ll wait a long, long time for anything much
To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud
And the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves.
The sun and moon get crossed, but they never touch,
Nor strike out fire from each other nor crash out loud.
The planets seem to interfere in their curves
But nothing ever happens, no harm is done.
We may as well go patiently on with our life,
And look elsewhere than to stars and moon and sun
For the shocks and changes we need to keep us sane.
It is true the longest drouth will end in rain,
The longest peace in China will end in strife.
Still it wouldn’t reward the watcher to stay awake
In hopes of seeing the calm of heaven break
On his particular time and personal sight.
That calm seems certainly safe to last to-night.

This poem is about being able to want somebody very and the result of their return. Frost displays this idea by many lines like “The sun and moon get crossed, but they never touch,”. He shows that two things may come close together but they are still so far apart. By saying the line “It is true the longest drouth will end in rain,” you get a sense that the narrator finally comes together with who they have been waiting for. Finally Frost shows the image that what the narrator has been waiting for is not worth. He shows this by the line “Still it wouldn’t reward the watcher to stay awake” this is a metaphor for saying his wait not rewarding. The poem represents a person’s wait for the return of a certain someone and when finally coming together the wait is not worth it in the end.