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A Man Writing at his Desk, by Jan Ekels the Younger
Robert Frost

Robert Frost

Quantula: In a Poem
The sentencing goes blithely on its way
And takes the playfully objected rhyme
As surely as it takes the stroke and time
In having its undeviable say.

#Americans #PulitzerPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury #1942 #AWitnessTree

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Quantula: The Secret Sits

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The Line-gang

HERE come the line-gang pioneering by. They throw a forest down less cut than b… They plant dead trees for living, and th… They string together with a living threa… They string an instrument against the sk…

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The Impulse

It was too lonely for her there, And too wild, And since there were but two of them, And no child, And work was little in the house,

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Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight

When I spread out my hand here today, I catch no more than a ray To feel of between thumb and fingers; No lasting effect of it lingers. There was one time and only the one

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The Bonfire

“OH, let’s go up the hill and scare our… As reckless as the best of them to-night… By setting fire to all the brush we pile… With pitchy hands to wait for rain or sn… Oh, let’s not wait for rain to make it s…

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The Cow in Apple

Something inspires the only cow of late To make no more of a wall than an open g… And think no more of wall-builders than… Her face is flecked with pomace and she… A cider syrup. Having tasted fruit,

Taken Singly: A Leaf Treader

I have been treading on leaves all day u… God knows all the color and form of leav… Perhaps I have put forth too much stren… I have safely trodden underfoot the leav… All summer long they were over head, mor…

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Taken Singly: Not Quite Social

Some of you will be glad I did what I d… And the rest won’t want to punish me too… For finding a thing to do that though no… Yet wasn’t enjoined and wasn’t expected… To punish me over cruelly wouldn’t be ri…

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Taken Doubly: On The Heart’s Beginning To Cloud The Mind

Something I saw or thought I saw In the desert at midnight in Utah, Looking out of my lower berth At moonlit sky and moonlit earth. The sky had here and there a star;

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Once by the Pacific

The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others coming in… And thought of doing something to the sh… That water never did to land before. The clouds were low and hairy in the ski…

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To E. T.

I slumbered with your poems on my breast Spread open as I dropped them half—read… Like dove wings on a figure on a tomb To see, if in a dream they brought of yo… I might not have the chance I missed in…

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Paul’s Wife

To drive Paul out of any lumber camp All that was needed was to say to him, ‘How is the wife, Paul?’- and he’d disa… Some said it was because be bad no wife, And hated to be twitted on the subject;

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Two Or More: Triple Bronze

The Infinite’s being so wide Is the reason the Powers provide For inner defense my hide. For next defense outside. I make myself this time

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Taken Singly: Provide, Provide

The witch that came (the withered hag) To wash the steps with pail and rag Was once the beauty Abishag, The picture pride of Hollywood. Too many fall from great and good

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