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"Strange how such innocence gets its own way.
I shouldn't be surprised if in this world
It were the force that would at last prevail."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Black Cottage." |
"And were an epitaph to be my story
I'd have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Lesson for Today, A Witness Tree (1942). |
""A sigh for every so many breath,
And for every so many sigh a death.
That's what I always tell my wife
Is the multiplication table of life.""
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Times Table." |
"America is hard to see.
Less partial witnesses than he
In book on book have testified
They could not see it from outside...."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "America Is Hard to See." |
"Faster or slower as he chanced,
Sitting or standing as he chose,
According as he feared to risk
His neck, or thought to spare his clothes."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Brown's Descent." |
"Was there ever a cause too lost,
Ever a cause that was lost too long...."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Hannibal." |
"We met. But all
We did that day was mingle great and small
Footprints in summer dust as if we drew
The figure of our being less than two
But more than one as yet."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Meeting and Passing." |
"It is right in there
Betwixt and between
The orchard bare
And the orchard green...."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Peril of Hope." |
"And oh, I knew, I knew,
And said out loud, I couldn't bide the smother
And heat so close in; but the thought of all
The woods and town on fire by me, and all
The town turned out to fight for me that held me."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Bonfire." |
"If this uncertain age in which we dwell
Were really as dark as I hear sages tell,
And I convinced that they were really sages,
I should not curse myself with it to hell...."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Lesson for Today." |
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