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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...."''
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Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Black Cottage."
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''Not to sink under being man and wife,
But get some color and music out of life?''
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Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Investment."
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''She drew back; he was calm
'It is this that had the power,'
And he lashed his open palm
With the tender-headed flower.''
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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.
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''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.''
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Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Masque of Reason."
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''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.''
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Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Bond and Free."
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''"... Keep cold, young orchard. Good-by and keep cold.
Dread fifty above more than fifty below."''
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Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Good-by and Keep Cold."
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''The house one story high in front, three stories
On the end it presented to the road.''
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Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Maple."
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''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.''
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Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Paul's Wife."
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''Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor.''
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Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Black Cottage, North of Boston (1914).
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''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.''
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Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Kitchen Chimney."
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