Category Robert Frost

What if it should turn out eternity Was but the steeple on our house of life That made our house of life a house of worship? We do not go up there to sleep at night. We do not go…

As a girl no one gallantly attends Sets forth for home at midnight from a friend’s- She tries to make it in one catch of breath, And this is not because she thinks of death. The city seems intoppling from…

If you should rise from Nowhere up to Somewhere, From being No one up to being Someone, Be sure to keep repeating to yourself You owe it to an arbitrary god Whose mercy to you rather than to others Won’t…

Once down on my knees to growing plantsI prodded the earth with a lazy toolIn time with a medley of sotto chants,But becoming aware of some boys from schoolWho had stopped outside the fence to spy,I stopped my song and…

I would build my house of crystal With a solitary friend Where the cold cracks like a pistol And the needle stands on end.   We would pour oil on the ingle And for want of books recite. We would…

I could be worse employed Than as watcher of the void Whose part should be to tell What star if any fell.   Suppose some seed-pearl sun Should be the only one, Yet still I must report Some cluster one…

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

Where I could think of no thoroughfare, Away on the mountain up far too high, A blinding headlight shifted glare And began to bounce down a granite stair Like a star fresh fallen out of the sky And I away…

She always had to burn a lightBeside her attic bed at nightIt gave bad dreams and broken sleep,But helped the Lord her soul to keepGood gloom on her was thrown away.It is on me by night or day,Who have, as…

Your claims to immortality were two. The one you made, the other one you grew. Sorry to have no name for you but You   We never knew exactly where to look, But found one in the delta of a…