#Americans #PulitzerPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury #1942 #AWitnessTree
A winter garden in an alder swamp, Where conies now come out to sun and rom… As near a paradise as it can be And not melt snow or start a dormant tre… It lifts existence on a plane of snow
#1928 #WestRunningBrook
These pools that, though in forests, sti… The total sky almost without defect, And like the flowers beside them, chill… Will like the flowers beside them soon b… And yet not out by any brook or river,
One misty evening, one another’s guide, We two were groping down a Malvern side The last wet fields and dripping hedges… There came a moment of confusing lights, Such as according to belief in Rome
#1936 #AFurtherRange
In the thick of a teeming snowfall I saw my shadow on snow. I turned and looked back up at the sky, Where we still look to ask the why Of everything below.
What tree may not the fig be gathered fr… The grape may not be gathered from the b… It’s all you know the grape, or know the… As a girl gathered from the birch myself Equally with my weight in grapes, one au…
#1923 #NewHampshire
The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to ocean— Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.
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…
#1914 #NorthOfBoston
There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound ag… He says that leaves are old and that for… Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
#1916 #MountainInterval
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 th… I want to get out of the train and go ba…
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if I had to perish twice,
The soil now gets a rumpling soft and da… And small regard to the future of any we… The final flat of the hoe’s approval sta… Is reserved for the bed of a few selecte… There is seldom more than a man to a har…
A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
#1942 #AWitnessTree
I Dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago, And left no trace but the cellar walls, And a cellar in which the daylight falls… And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries…
#1913 #ABoy'sWill
Poetry is when an emotion has found its…
Square Matthew Hale’s young grafted app… Began to blossom at the age of five; And after having entertained the bee, And cast its flowers and all the stems b… It set itself to keep those three alive;