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Jun 26, 2017 · Any list of the top ten best poems by such a major poet as Robert Frost (1874-1963) is bound to inspire disagreement or, at least, discussion; but we thought we’d throw our literary cap in the ring and offer our own selection of Robert Frost’s greatest poems, along with a little bit about each poem.
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- On Looking Up by Chance at The Constellations
- The Birthplace
- The Freedom of The Moon
- In A Disused Graveyard
- Good Hours
- Flower Gathering
- Wind and Window Flower
- Looking For A Sunset Bird in Winter
- The Egg and The Machine, West-Running Brook, 1928
- Leaves Compared with Flowers
You’ll wait a long, long time for anything much To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud And the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves. The sun and moon get crossed, but they never touch, Nor strike out fire from each other nor crash out loud. The planets seem to interfere in their curves But nothing ever happens, no harm is done. We ...
Here further up the mountain slope Than there was ever any hope, My father built, enclosed a spring, Strung chains of wall round everything, Subdued the growth of earth to grass, And brought our various lives to pass. A dozen girls and boys we were. The mountain seemed to like the stir, And made of us a little while— With always something in her sm...
I’ve tried the new moon tilted in the air Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster As you might try a jewel in your hair. I’ve tried it fine with little breadth of luster, Alone, or in one ornament combining With one first-water star almost as shining. I put it shining anywhere I please. By walking slowly on some evening later, I’ve pulled it from a...
The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But never anymore the dead. The verses in it say and say: “The ones who living come today To read the stones and go away Tomorrow dead will come to stay.” So sure of death the marbles rhyme, Yet can’t help marking all the time How no one dea...
I had for my winter evening walk— No one at all with whom to talk, But I had the cottages in a row Up to their shining eyes in snow. And I thought I had the folk within: I had the sound of a violin; I had a glimpse through curtain laces Of youthful forms and youthful faces. I had such company outward bound. I went till there were no cottages found....
I left you in the morning, And in the morning glow, You walked a way beside me To make me sad to go. Do you know me in the gloaming, Gaunt and dusty grey with roaming? Are you dumb because you know me not, Or dumb because you know? All for me? And not a question For the faded flowers gay That could take me from beside you For the ages of a day? The...
Lovers, forget your love, And list to the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze. When the frosty window veil Was melted down at noon, And the caged yellow bird Hung over her in tune, He marked her through the pane, He could not help but mark, And only passed her by, To come again at dark. He was a winter wind, Concerned with ic...
The west was getting out of gold, The breath of air had died of cold, When shoeing home across the white, I thought I saw a bird alight. In summer when I passed the place I had to stop and lift my face; A bird with an angelic gift Was singing in it sweet and swift. No bird was singing in it now. A single leaf was on a bough, And that was all there ...
He gave the solid rail a hateful kick. From far away there came an answering tick And then another tick. He knew the code: His hate had roused an engine up the road. He wished when he had had the track alone He had attacked it with a club or stone And bent some rail wide open like switch So as to wreck the engine in the ditch. Too late though, now,...
A tree’s leaves may be ever so good, So may its bark, so may its wood; But unless you put the right thing to its root It never will show much flower or fruit. But I may be one who does not care Ever to have tree bloom or bear. Leaves for smooth and bark for rough, Leaves and bark may be tree enough. Some giant trees have bloom so small They might a...
Celebrate Robert Frost’s 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems—with brilliant essays highlighting his special genius and the power of memorization to unlock the magic of his language
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Aug 20, 2012 · Below are what are generally considered his five greatest poems in no particular order. You may also click here for ten lesser known but great poems by Frost. The Road Not Taken. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the ...
- The Road Not Taken. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. “The Road Not Taken” is by far the best known of Frost’s poems, so much so that it’s become a cliché.
- Mending Wall. He will not go beyond his father’s saying, And he likes having thought of it so well. He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.” ADVERTISEMENT.
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here. To watch his woods fill up with snow.
- Birches. When I see birches bend to left and right. Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boy’s been swinging them. “Birches” takes a look at how birch tree branches get bent in a blank-verse meditation on the fun of swinging from trees, and how they get bent in a storm.
Apr 2, 2024 · The evening showcases “Robert Frost – Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart,” a new keepsake edition of Frost’s greatest works curated by acclaimed poet and biographer Jay Parini.
Jay Parini: Robert Frost—Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart. Celebrate Robert Frost’s 150th birthday with a keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems—with brilliant essays highlighting his special genius and the power of memorization to unlock the magic of his language. Overview.
