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"He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'"
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. peot. Mending Wall (l. 27). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt. |
"The sister's face
Fell all in wrinkles of responsibility.
She wanted to do right. She'd have to think."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Place for a Third." |
""... But if you shrink from being scared,
What would you say to war if it should come?
That's what for reasons I should like to know
If you can comfort me by any answer."
"Oh, but war's not for children it's for men.""
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Bonfire." |
"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Lesson for Today." |
"'Tis of the essence of life here,
Though we choose greatly, still to lack
The lasting memory at all clear,
That life has for us on the wrack
Nothing but what we somehow chose;
Thus are we wholly stripped of pride
In the pain that has but one close,
Bearing it crushed and mystified."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Trial by Existence." |
"For any eye is an evil eye
That looks in onto a mood apart."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Mood Apart." |
"Even while we talk some chemist at Columbia
Is stealthily contriving wool from jute...."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Build Soil." |
"And turned on him with such a daunting look,
He said twice over before he knew himself:
"Can't a man speak of his own child he's lost?""
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Home Burial." |
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall,"
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. peot. Mending Wall (l. 1). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt. |
"Nothing to say to all those marriages!
She had made three herself to three of his.
The score was even for them, three to three."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Place for a Third." |
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