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"In spring more mortal singers than belong
To any one place cover us with song.
Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng...."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Our Singing Strength." |
"The world has room to make a bear feel free;
The universe seems cramped to you and me."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Bear." |
""It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me
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 them....""
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Housekeeper." |
"Till having failed at hugger-mugger farming
He burned his house down for the fire insurance
And spent the proceeds on a telescope
To satisfy a lifelong curiosity
About our place among the infinities."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Star-Splitter." |
"Lovers, forget your love,
And list to the love of these,
She a window flower,
And he a winter breeze."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Wind and Window Flower." |
"We don't know where we are, or who we are.
We don't know one another; don't know You;
Don't know what time it is. We don't know, don't we?"
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Masque of Reason." |
"Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb,
Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum
In the cavernous pail of the first one to come!"
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Blueberries." |
"Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Gathering Leaves." |
"The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold...."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter." |
"Well, something for a snowstorm to have shown
The country's singing strength thus brought together,
That though repressed and moody with the weather
Was nonetheless there ready to be freed
And sing the wild flowers up from root and seed."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Our Singing Strength." |
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