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Robert Frost

Robert Frost

Quantula: On Our Sympathy With The Under Dog

First under up and then again down under,
We watch a circus of revolving dogs
No senator dares in to kick asunder
Lest both should bite him in the toga-togs.

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

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Taken Doubly: A Drumlin Woodchuck

One thing has a shelving bank, Another a rotting plank, To give it cozier skies And make up for its lack of size. My own strategic retreat

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The storm, by Walter Withers
Storm Fear

When the wind works against us in the da… And pelts with snow The lowest chamber window on the east, And whispers with a sort of stifled bark… The beast,

#1913 #ABoy'sWill

After Apple-Picking

My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking th… Toward heaven still, And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough.

#1914 #NorthOfBoston

The Runaway

Once when the snow of the year was begin… We stopped by a mountain pasture to say… A little Morgan had one forefoot on the… The other curled at his breast. He dipp… And snorted at us. And then he had to b…

#1923 #NewHampshire

The Sound of the Trees

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

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Over Back: A Nature Note

Four or five whippoorwills Have come down from their native ledge To the open country edge To give us a piece of their bills. Two in June were a pair—

#1942 #AWitnessTree

Taken Singly: Clear And Colder

Wind the season-climate mixer In my Witches’ Weather Primer Says to make this Fall Elixir First you let the summer simmer, Using neither spoon nor skimmer,

#1936 #AFurtherRange

The Fear

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…

#1914 #NorthOfBoston

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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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Ten Mills: One Guess

He has dust in his eyes and a fan for a… A leg akimbo with which he can sing, And a mouthful of dye stuff instead of a…

#1936 #AFurtherRange

The Last Mowing

There’s a place called Far-away Meadow We never shall mow in again, Or such is the talk at the farmhouse: The meadow is finished with men. Then now is the chance for the flowers

#1928 #WestRunningBrook

An Empty Threat

I stay; But it isn’t as if There wasn’t always Hudson’s Bay And the fur trade, A small skiff

#1923 #NewHampshire

Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, by John William Waterhouse
One Or Two: Carpe Diem

Age saw two quiet children Go loving by at twilight, He knew not whether homeward, Or outward from the village, Or (chimes were ringing) churchward,

#1942 #AWitnessTree

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Taken Doubly: The Gold Hesperidee

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;

#1936 #AFurtherRange

Ten Mills: Pertinax

Let chaos storm! Let cloud shapes swarm! I wait for form.

#1936 #AFurtherRange




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