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"He showed me that the lines of a good helve
Were native to the grain before the knife
Expressed them, and its curves were no false curves
Put on it from without."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Ax-Helve." |
"Sudden and swift and light as that
The ties gave,
And he learned of finalities
Beside the grave."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Hill Wife, "V. The Impulse." |
""... I have to take
What I can get. You see they have the feet,
Which gives them the advantage in the trade.
I can't get back the feet in any case.""
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Self-Seeker." |
"(The black stream, catching on a sunken rock,
Flung backward on itself in one white wave,
And the white water rode the black forever."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. West-running Brook (l. 24-26). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt. |
""The city's grotesque iron skeletons
Would knock their drunken penthouse heads together
And cake their concrete dirt off in the streets.""
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Masque of Mercy." |
"they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves:"
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. Birches (l. 15-16). . .
The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt. |
"Our venture in revolution and outlawry
Has justified itself in freedom's story
Right down to now in glory upon glory."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration." |
""Nothing can go up
But it must come down."
Earth is still our fate."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Kitty Hawk." |
"Life is not so sinister-grave.
Matter of fact has made them brave.
He is husband, she is wife.
She fears not him, they fear not life."
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind." |
"Hard if, though cast away for life with Yankees,
A Frenchman couldn't get his human rating!"
Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Ax-Helve." |
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