#Americans #PulitzerPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury #1936 #AFurtherRange
I staid the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountain, with a mother and s… Two old-believers. They did all the tal… The Mother Folks think a witch who has familiar spi…
The well was dry beside the door, And so we went with pail and can Across the fields behind the house To seek the brook if still it ran; Not loth to have excuse to go,
#1913 #ABoy'sWill
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…
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
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
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
#1942 #AWitnessTree
‘Fred, where is north?’ ‘North? North is there, my love. The brook runs west.’ ‘West—running Brook then call it.’ (West—Running Brook men call it to this…
#1928 #WestRunningBrook
The mountain held the town as in a shado… I saw so much before I slept there once… I noticed that I missed stars in the we… Where its black body cut into the sky. Near me it seemed: I felt it like a wal…
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me. Vague dream-head lifted out of the groun…
“When I was just as far as I could walk From here today, There was an hour All still When leaning with my head against a flow…
Inscription for a Garden Wall Winds blow the open grassy places bleak; But where this old wall burns a sunny ch… They eddy over it too toppling weak To blow the earth or anything self-clear…
You’ll wait a long, long time for anythi… To happen in heaven beyond the floats of… And the Northern Lights that run like t… The sun and moon get crossed, but they n… Nor strike out fire from each other nor…
Let me be the one To do what is done.
#1936 #AFurtherRange
Always the same, when on a fated night At last the gathered snow lets down as w… As may be in dark woods, and with a song It shall not make again all winter long Of hissing on the yet uncovered ground,