Photo of the Day

I have been one acquainted with the night.

Newspaper boys, who sell on the street, wait for the evening 'baseball edition' to come off the printer, Indianapolis, 1908.

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

Migrant farm workers' camp after a rain, California, 1936.

I have outwalked the furthest city light.

Counter service at Unique Lunch, 195 West 135th Street, Manhattan, December 1937.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.

Pennsylvania coal miner detonates dynamite to blow a hole in the rock, November 1942.

I have passed by the watchman on his beat

Mercury astronaut John Glenn climbs aboard his spacecraft, the "Friendship 7," in preparation for his three-orbit space flight, February 20, 1962.

And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

Miners working in the Klondike gold fields of Yukon territory weigh their gold dust, 1899.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet

Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, 1962.

When far away an interrupted cry

Dance Hall, Marshalltown, Iowa, 1944.

Came over houses from another street,

Municipal shelter for homeless men, 25th Street, Manhattan, 1930

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

Referee watches wrestlers at New York's Hippodrome Theatre, then located at 6th Ave between 43rd and 44th Streets, 1938.

And further still at an unearthly height,

US troops near Dak To, South Vietnam, November 1967.

One luminary clock against the sky

Looking up Broadway from 45th Street, Manhattan, 1923.

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

Mick Jagger performs in the White House East Room for President Obama and guests., 2012.

I have been one acquainted with the night.

Senator Robert F. Kennedy announces the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King to a crowd of Indianapolis supporters, April 4, 1968 [ Indianapolis Recorder Collection, Indiana Historical Society photo]. "What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness; but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."

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I’ll see you tomorrow.

— Brenda

Text: Robert Frost, “I have been acquainted with the night,” first published in 1928.

Banner image: Clergyman conducts a religious service for Marines at their combat base in South Vietnam, 1969.