#Americans #PulitzerPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury #1913 #ABoy'sWill
The line—storm clouds fly tattered and s… The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof—prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the be…
#1913 #ABoy'sWill
There’s a patch of old snow in a corner That I should have guessed Was a blow—away paper the rain Had brought to rest. It is speckled with grime as if
#1916 #MountainInterval
The land was ours before we were the lan… She was our land more than a hundred yea… Before we were her people. She was ours In Massachusetts, in Virginia, But we were England’s, still colonials,
#1942 #AWitnessTree
Some one in ancient Mas d’Azil Once took a little pebble wheel And dotted it with red for me, And sent it to me years and years— A million years to be precise—
#1936 #AFurtherRange
The battle rent a cobweb diamond—strung And cut a flower beside a ground bird’s… Before it stained a single human breast. The stricken flower bent double and so h… And still the bird revisited her young.
Her Word One ought not to have to care So much as you and I Care when the birds come round the house To seem to say good—bye;
The Voice said, “Hurl her down!” The Voices, “How far down?” “Seven levels of the world.” “How much time have we?” “Take twenty years.
#1928 #WestRunningBrook
How countlessly they congregate O’er our tumultuous snow, Which flows in shapes as tall as trees When wintry winds do blow!— As if with keenness for our fate,
All out-of-doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separa… That gathers on the pane in empty rooms. What kept his eyes from giving back the… Was the lamp tilted near them in his han…
This biplane is the shape of human fligh… Its name might better be First Motor K… Its makers’ name—Time cannot get that w… For it was writ in heaven doubly Wright…
All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separa… That gathers on the pane in empty rooms. What kept his eyes from giving back the… Was the lamp tilted near them in his han…
The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But never anymore the dead. The verses in it say and say:
#1923 #NewHampshire
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…
No speed of wind or water rushing by But you have speed far greater. You can… Back up a stream of radiance to the sky, And back through history up the stream o… And you were given this swiftness, not f…
#AFurtherRange #Sonnet#1936
That far-off day the leaves in flight Were letting in the colder light. A season-ending wind there blew That as it did the forest strew I leaned on with a singing trust