I’m going out to clean the pasture sprin… I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I m… I sha’n’t be gone long.—You come too. I’m going out to fetch the little calf
Something there is that doesn’t love a w… That sends the frozen—ground—swell under… And spills the upper boulders in the sun… And makes gaps even two can pass abreast… The work of hunters is another thing:
Mary sat musing on the lamp—flame at the… Waiting for Warren. When she heard his… She ran on tip—toe down the darkened pas… To meet him in the doorway with the news And put him on his guard. “Silas is bac…
The mountain held the town as in a shado… I saw so much before I slept there once… I noticed that I missed stars in the we… Where its black body cut into the sky. Near me it seemed: I felt it like a wal…
Lancaster bore him—such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn’t see him of… Of late years, though he keeps the old h… And sends the children down there with t… To run wild in the summer—a little wild.
He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Before she saw him. She was starting d… Looking back over her shoulder at some f… She took a doubtful step and then undid… To raise herself and look again. He sp…
We chanced in passing by that afternoon To catch it in a sort of special picture Among tar-banded ancient cherry trees, Set well back from the road in rank lodg… The little cottage we were speaking of,
“You ought to have seen what I saw on m… To the village, through Mortenson’s pas… Blueberries as big as the end of your th… Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to d… In the cavernous pail of the first one t…
I didn’t make you know how glad I was To have you come and camp here on our la… promised myself to get down some day And see the way you lived, but I don’t… With a houseful of hungry men to feed
My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking th… Toward heaven still, And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough.
There were three in the meadow by the br… Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of h… With an eye always lifted toward the wes… Where an irregular sun—bordered cloud Darkly advanced with a perpetual dagger
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New… Ancestral memories might come together. And those of the name Stark gathered in… A rock-strewn town where farming has fal…
I let myself in at the kitchen door. ‘It’s you,' she said. 'I can’t get up.… Not answering your knock. I can no more Let people in than I can keep them out. I’m getting too old for my size, I tell…
A lantern light from deeper in the barn Shone on a man and woman in the door And threw their lurching shadows on a ho… Near by, all dark in every glossy window… A horse’s hoof pawed once the hollow flo…
“Willis, I didn’t want you here to—day: The lawyer’s coming for the company. I’m going to sell my soul, or, rather, f… Five hundred dollars for the pair, you k… “With you the feet have nearly been the…
Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray… I paused and said, 'I will turn back fr… No, I will go on farther—and we shall s… The hard snow held me, save where now an… One foot went through. The view was all…
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:
