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Robert Frost
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963 / San Francisco / USA)
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Early years Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California, to journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie. His mother was of S .. more >>
118 poems of Robert Frost
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  ''The path was a vague parting in the grass
That led us to a weathered windowsill.
We pressed our faces to the pane. "You see," he said,
"Everything's as she left it when she died...."''
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Black Cottage."
 
  ''Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?''
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Investment."
 
  ''She drew back; he was calm
'It is this that had the power,'
And he lashed his open palm
With the tender-headed flower.''
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Subverted Flower (l. 1-4). . . The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.
 
  ''There isn't any universal reason;
And no one but a man would think there was.
You don't catch women trying to be Plato.''
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Masque of Reason."
 
  ''Yet some say Love by being thrall
And simply staying possesses all
In several beauty that Thought fares far
To find fused in another star.''
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Bond and Free."
 
  ''"... Keep cold, young orchard. Good-by and keep cold.
Dread fifty above more than fifty below."''
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Good-by and Keep Cold."
 
  ''The house one story high in front, three stories
On the end it presented to the road.''
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Maple."
 
  ''Owning a wife with him meant owning her.
She wasn't anybody else's business,
Either to praise her or so much as name her,
And he'd thank people not to think of her.''
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Paul's Wife."
 
  ''Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.''
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Black Cottage, North of Boston (1914).
 
  ''Builder, in building the little house,
In every way you may please yourself;
But please please me in the kitchen chimney:
Don't build me a chimney upon a shelf.''
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Kitchen Chimney."
 

 
 
 
 
 
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