#Americans #PulitzerPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury #1942 #AWitnessTree
I left you in the morning, And in the morning glow, You walked a way beside me To make me sad to go. Do you know me in the gloaming,
#1913 #ABoy'sWill
He halted in the wind, and– what was th… Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost… He stood there bringing March against h… And yet too ready to believe the most. ‘Oh, that’s the Paradise-in-bloom,' I s…
#1923 #NewHampshire
A boy, presuming on his intellect, Once showed two little monkeys in a cage A burning-glass they could not understan… And never could be made to understand. Words are no good: to say it was a lens
#1936 #AFurtherRange
A breeze discovered my open book And began to flutter the leaves to look For a poem there used to be on Spring. I tried to tell her “There’s no such th… For whom would a poem on Spring be by?
#1942 #AWitnessTree
“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…
#1916 #MountainInterval
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
From where I lingered in a lull in Marc… outside the sugar-house one night for ch… I called the fireman with a careful voic… And bade him leave the pan and stoke the… ‘O fireman, give the fire another stoke,
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the do… When it seemed as if I could bear no mo… The fault must partly have been in me.
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,
#1914 #NorthOfBoston
To think to know the country and now kno… The hillside on the day the sun lets go Ten million silver lizards out of snow! As often as I’ve seen it done before I can’t pretend to tell the way it’s don…
NOW that they’ve got it settled whose… I’m going to tell them something they wo… They’ve got it settled wrong, and I can… Flattered I must be to have two towns f… To make a present of me to each other.
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…
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…
Others taunt me with having knelt at wel… Always wrong to the light, so never seei… Deeper down in the well than where the w… Gives me back in a shining surface pictu… Me myself in the summer heaven godlike
We make ourselves a place apart Behind light words that tease and flout, But oh, the agitated heart Till someone find us really out. ’Tis pity if the case require