#Americans #PulitzerPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury #1942 #AWitnessTree
I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative w…
#1936 #AFurtherRange
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…
#1923 #NewHampshire
He is that fallen lance that lies as hur… That lies unlifted now, come dew, come r… But still lies pointed as it ploughed th… If we who sight along it round the world… See nothing worthy to have been its mark…
The swinging mill bell changed its rate To tolling like the count of fate, And though at that the tardy ran, One failed to make the closing gate. There was a law of God or man
The bear puts both arms around the tree… And draws it down as if it were a lover And its choke cherries lips to kiss good… Then lets it snap back upright in the sk… Her next step rocks a boulder on the wal…
#1928 #WestRunningBrook
Around bend after bend, It was blown woods and no end. I came to but one house I made but the one friend. At the one house a child was out
#1942 #AWitnessTree
It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon’s t… Though I knew what I hunted was no true… It was just as the light was beginning t… That I suddenly heard—all I needed to h…
#1913 #ABoy'sWill
As I went out a Crow In a low voice said, 'Oh, I was looking for you. How do you do? I just came to tell you
#1916 #MountainInterval
I WALKED down alone Sunday after chu… To the place where John has been cuttin… To see for myself about the birch He said I could have to bush my peas. The sun in the new-cut narrow gap
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
There were three in the meadow by the br… Gathering up windrows, piling haycocks u… With an eye always lifted toward the wes… Where an irregular, sun-bordered cloud Darkly advanced with a perpetual dagger
Here come real stars to fill the upper s… And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in si… (And they were never really stars at hea… Achieve at times a very star—like start.
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.
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.
