#Americans #PulitzerPrize #XIXCentury #XXCentury #1942 #AWitnessTree
As vain to raise a voice as a sigh In the tumult of free leaves on high. What are you in the shadow of trees Engaged up there with the light and bree… Less than the coral-root you know
#1928 #WestRunningBrook
Come with rain, O loud Southwester! Bring the singer, bring the nester; Give the buried flower a dream; Make the settled snow—bank steam; Find the brown beneath the white;
#1913 #ABoy'sWill
A dented spider like a snow drop white On a white Heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of lifeless satin clo… Saw ever curious eye so strange a sight?… Portent in little, assorted death and bl…
Some things are never clear. But the weather is clear tonight, Thanks to a clearing rain. The mountains are brought up near, The stars are brought out bright.
#1936 #AFurtherRange
Let me be the one To do what is done.
As gay for you to take your father’s axe As take his gun—rod—to go hunting—fishin… You nick my spruce until its fiber crack… It gives up standing straight and goes d… You link an arm in its arm and you lean
#1942 #AWitnessTree
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still and look around On all the hills I haven’t hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it?
#1916 #MountainInterval
He is said to have been the last Red ma… In Action. And the Miller is said to h… If you like to call such a sound a laugh… But he gave no one else a laugher’s lice… For he turned suddenly grave as if to sa…
I let myself in at the kitchen door. ‘It’s you,' she said. 'I can’t get up.… Not answering your knock. I can no more Let people in than I can keep them out. I’m getting too old for my size, I tell…
#1914 #NorthOfBoston
Back out of all this now too much for us… Back in a time made simple by the loss Of detail, burned, dissolved, and broken… Like graveyard marble sculpture in the w… There is a house that is no more a house
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
I’m going out to clean the pasture sprin… I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I m… I sha’n’t be gone long.—You come too. I’m going out to fetch the little calf
Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would someday make his f… There’d been some Boston people out to… And experts said that deep down in the m… The mica sheets were big as plate-glass…
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?
The three stood listening to a fresh acc… Of wind that caught against the house a… Gulped snow, and then blew free again—th… Dressed, but dishevelled from some hours… Meserve belittled in the great skin coat…