The Poetry of Robert Frost The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged

by Frost, Robert; Lathem, Edward Connery

• ISBN13: 9780805069860
• ISBN10: 0805069860
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

Summary

A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do. T. S. Eliot judged him "the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living," and he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes. Henry Holt is proud to announce the republication of four editions of Frost's most beloved work for a new generation of poets and readers. You Come Too A collection of poems selected by Frost himself to be read and enjoyed by all readers, young and old.

Author Biography

Robert Frost (1874-1963) is widely regarded as one of America's finest poets. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on four different occasions, and also served as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Table of Contents

The Pasture	1	(4)
A BOY'S WILL
Into My Own	5	(1)
Ghost House	5	(1)
My November Guest	6	(1)
Love and a Question	7	(1)
A Late Walk	8	(1)
Stars	9	(1)
Storm Fear	9	(1)
Wind and Window Flower	10	(1)
To the Thawing Wind	11	(1)
A Prayer in Spring	12	(1)
Flower-Gathering	12	(1)
Rose Pogonias	13	(1)
Waiting	14	(1)
In a Vale	15	(1)
A Dream Pang	16	(1)
In Neglect	16	(1)
The Vantage Point	17	(1)
Mowing	17	(1)
Going for Water	18	(1)
Revelation	19	(1)
The Trial by Existence	19	(3)
The Tuft of Flowers	22	(1)
Pan with Us	23	(1)
The Demiurge's Laugh	24	(1)
Now Close the Windows	25	(1)
In Hardwood Groves	25	(1)
A Line-Storm Song	26	(1)
October	27	(1)
My Butterfly	28	(1)
Reluctance	29	(4)
NORTH OF BOSTON
Mending Wall	33	(1)
The Death of the Hired Man	34	(6)
The Mountain	40	(4)
A Hundred Collars	44	(7)
Home Burial	51	(4)
The Black Cottage	55	(4)
Blueberries	59	(3)
A Servant to Servants	62	(6)
After Apple-Picking	68	(1)
The Code	69	(4)
The Generations of Men	73	(8)
The Housekeeper	81	(8)
The Fear	89	(3)
The Self-Seeker	92	(9)
The Wood-Pile	101	(1)
Good Hours	102	(3)
MOUNTAIN INTERVAL
The Road Not Taken	105	(1)
Christmas Trees	105	(3)
An Old Man's Winter Night	108	(1)
The Exposed Nest	109	(1)
A Patch of Old Snow	110	(1)
In the Home Stretch	110	(8)
The Telephone	118	(1)
Meeting and Passing	118	(1)
Hyla Brook	119	(1)
The Oven Bird	119	(1)
Bond and Free	120	(1)
Birches	121	(2)
Pea Brush	123	(1)
Putting in the Seed	123	(1)
A Time to Talk	124	(1)
The Cow in Apple Time	124	(1)
An Encounter	125	(1)
Range-Finding	126	(3)
The Hill Wife
Loneliness	126	(1)
House Fear	127	(1)
The Smile	127	(1)
The Oft-Repeated Dream	128	(1)
The Impulse	128	(1)
The Bonfire	129	(4)
A Girl's Garden	133	(2)
Locked Out	135	(1)
The Last Word of a Bluebird	135	(1)
``Out, Out---''	136	(1)
Brown's Descent	137	(3)
The Gum-Gatherer	140	(1)
The Line-Gang	141	(1)
The Vanishing Red	142	(1)
Snow	143	(13)
The Sound of Trees	156	(3)
NEW HAMPSHIRE
New Hampshire	159	(13)
A Star in a Stoneboat	172	(2)
The Census-Taker	174	(2)
The Star-Splitter	176	(3)
Maple	179	(6)
The Ax-Helve	185	(3)
The Grindstone	188	(3)
Paul's Wife	191	(5)
Wild Grapes	196	(3)
Place for a Third	199	(11)
Two Witches
The Witch of Coos	202	(5)
The Pauper Witch of Grafton	207	(3)
An Empty Threat	210	(2)
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey's Ears, and Some Books	212	(5)
I Will Sing You One-O	217	(3)
Fragmentary Blue	220	(1)
Fire and Ice	220	(1)
In a Disused Graveyard	221	(1)
Dust of Snow	221	(1)
To E. T.	222	(1)
Nothing Gold Can Stay	222	(1)
The Runaway	223	(1)
The Aim Was Song	223	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	224	(1)
For Once, Then, Something	225	(1)
Blue-Butterfly Day	225	(1)
The Onset	226	(1)
To Earthward	226	(2)
Good-by and Keep Cold	228	(1)
Two Look at Two	229	(1)
Not to Keep	230	(1)
A Brook in the City	231	(1)
The Kitchen Chimney	232	(1)
Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter	232	(1)
A Boundless Moment	233	(1)
Evening in a Sugar Orchard	234	(1)
Gathering Leaves	234	(1)
The Valley's Singing Day	235	(1)
Misgiving	236	(1)
A Hillside Thaw	237	(1)
Plowmen	238	(1)
On a Tree Fallen Across the Road	238	(1)
Our Singing Strength	239	(1)
The Lockless Door	240	(1)
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things	241	(4)
WEST-RUNNING BROOK
Spring Pools	245	(1)
The Freedom of the Moon	245	(1)
The Rose Family	246	(1)
Fireflies in the Garden	246	(1)
Atmosphere	246	(1)
Devotion	247	(1)
On Going Unnoticed	247	(1)
The Cocoon	247	(1)
A Passing Glimpse	248	(1)
A Peck of Gold	249	(1)
Acceptance	249	(1)
Once by the Pacific	250	(1)
Lodged	250	(1)
A Minor Bird	250	(1)
Bereft	251	(1)
Tree at My Window	251	(1)
The Peaceful Shepherd	252	(1)
The Thatch	252	(2)
A Winter Eden	254	(1)
The Flood	254	(1)
Acquainted with the Night	255	(1)
The Lovely Shall be Choosers	255	(2)
West-Running Brook	257	(3)
Sand Dunes	260	(1)
Canis Major	261	(1)
A Soldier	261	(1)
Immigrants	262	(1)
Hannibal	262	(1)
The Flower Boat	262	(1)
The Times Table	263	(1)
The Investment	263	(1)
The Last Mowing	264	(1)
The Birthplace	264	(1)
The Door in the Dark	265	(1)
Dust in the Eyes	265	(1)
Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight	266	(1)
The Armful	266	(1)
What Fifty Said	267	(1)
Riders	267	(1)
On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations	268	(1)
The Bear	268	(1)
The Egg and the Machine	269	(4)
A FURTHER RANGE
A Lone Striker	273	(2)
Two Tramps in Mud Time	275	(2)
The White-Tailed Hornet	277	(2)
A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury	279	(2)
A Drumlin Woodchuck	281	(2)
The Gold Hesperidee	283	(2)
In Time of Cloudburst	285	(1)
A Roadside Stand	286	(1)
Departmental	287	(2)
The Old Barn at the Bottom of the Fogs	289	(1)
On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind	290	(2)
The Figure in the Doorway	292	(1)
At Woodward's Gardens	293	(1)
A Record Stride	294	(1)
Lost in Heaven	295	(1)
Desert Places	296	(1)
Leaves Compared with Flowers	296	(1)
A Leaf-Treader	297	(1)
On Taking from the Top to Broaden the Base	298	(1)
They Were Welcome to Their Belief	299	(1)
The Strong Are Saying Nothing	299	(1)
The Master Speed	300	(1)
Moon Compasses	300	(1)
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep	301	(1)
Voice Ways	301	(1)
Design	302	(1)
On a Bird Singing in its Sleep	302	(1)
Afterflakes	303	(1)
Clear and Colder	303	(1)
Unharvested	304	(1)
There are Roughly Zones	305	(1)
A Trial Run	306	(1)
Not Quite Social	306	(1)
Provide, Provide	307	(3)
Ten Mills
Precaution	308	(1)
The Span of Life	308	(1)
The Wrights' Biplane	308	(1)
Evil Tendencies Cancel	308	(1)
Pertinax	308	(1)
Waspish	309	(1)
One Guess	309	(1)
The Hardship of Accounting	309	(1)
Not All There	309	(1)
In Dives' Dive	310	(1)
The Vindictives	310	(3)
The Bearer of Evil Tidings	313	(2)
Iris By Night	315	(1)
Build Soil	316	(9)
To a Thinker	325	(1)
A Missive Missile	326	(5)
A WITNESS TREE
Beech	331	(1)
Sycamore	331	(1)
The Silken Tent	331	(1)
All Revelation	332	(1)
Happiness Makes Up in Height For What It Lacks in Length	333	(1)
Come In	334	(1)
I Could Give All to Time	334	(1)
Carpe Diem	335	(1)
The Wind and the Rain	336	(2)
The Most of It	338	(1)
Never Again Would Birds' Song be the Same	338	(1)
The Subverted Flower	339	(2)
Willful Homing	341	(1)
A Cloud Shadow	342	(1)
The Quest of the Purple-Fringed	342	(1)
The Discovery of the Madeiras	343	(5)
The Gift Outright	348	(1)
Triple Bronze	348	(1)
Our Hold on the Planet	349	(1)
To a Young Wretch	349	(1)
The Lesson for Today	350	(5)
Time Out	355	(1)
To a Moth Seen in Winter	356	(1)
A Considerable Speck	357	(1)
The Lost Follower	358	(1)
November	359	(1)
The Rabbit-Hunter	360	(1)
A Loose Mountain	360	(1)
It Is Almost the Year Two Thousand	361	(1)
In a Poem	362	(1)
On Our Sympathy with the Under Dog	362	(1)
A Question	362	(1)
Boeotian	362	(1)
The Secret Sits	362	(1)
An Equalizer	363	(1)
A Semi-Revolution	363	(1)
Assurance	363	(1)
An Answer	363	(1)
Trespass	364	(1)
A Nature Note	364	(1)
Of the Stones of the Place	365	(1)
Not of School Age	366	(1)
A Serious Step Lightly Taken	367	(1)
The Literate Farmer And the Planet Venus	368	(7)
STEEPLE BUSH
A Young Birch	375	(1)
Something for Hope	375	(1)
One Step Backward Taken	376	(1)
Directive	377	(2)
Too Anxious for Rivers	379	(1)
An Unstamped Letter In Our Rural Letter Box	380	(2)
To an Ancient	382	(3)
Five Nocturnes
The Night Light	382	(1)
Were I In Trouble	383	(1)
Bravado	383	(1)
On Making Certain Anything Has Happened	383	(1)
In the Long Night	384	(1)
A Mood Apart	385	(1)
The Fear of God	385	(1)
The Fear of Man	386	(1)
A Steeple on the House	386	(1)
Innate Helium	386	(1)
The Courage to Be New	387	(1)
Iota Subscript	387	(1)
The Middleness of the Road	388	(1)
Astrometaphysical	388	(1)
Skeptic	389	(1)
Two Leading Lights	390	(1)
A Rogers Group	391	(1)
On Being Idolized	391	(1)
A Wish to Comply	391	(1)
A Cliff Dwelling	392	(1)
It Bids Pretty Fair	392	(1)
Beyond Words	393	(1)
A Case for Jefferson	393	(1)
Lucretius Versus the Lake Poets	393	(1)
Haec Fabula Docet	394	(1)
Etherealizing	394	(1)
Why Wait for Science	395	(1)
Any Size We Please	396	(1)
An Importer	396	(1)
The Planners	397	(1)
No Holy Wars for Them	398	(1)
Bursting Rapture	398	(1)
U.S. 1946 King's X	399	(1)
The Ingenuities of Debt	399	(1)
The Broken Drought	399	(1)
To the Right Person	400	(3)
``An Afterword'' from COMPLETE POEMS
Take Something Like a Star	403	(1)
From Plane to Plane	404	(7)
IN THE CLEARING
Pod of the Milkweed	411	(1)
Away!	412	(1)
A Cabin in the Clearing	413	(2)
Closed for Good	415	(1)
America is Hard to See	416	(3)
One More Brevity	419	(2)
Escapist---Never	421	(1)
For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration	422	(3)
Accidentally on Purpose	425	(1)
A Never Naught Song	426	(1)
Version	427	(1)
A Concept Self-Conceived	427	(1)
[Forgive, O Lord...]	428	(1)
Kitty Hawk	428	(15)
Auspex	443	(1)
The Draft Horse	443	(1)
Ends	444	(1)
Peril of Hope	445	(1)
Questioning Faces	445	(1)
Does No One at All Ever Feel This Way in the Least?	446	(1)
The Bad Island---Easter	447	(2)
Our Doom to Bloom	449	(1)
The Objection to Being Stepped on	450	(1)
A-Wishing Well	451	(2)
How Hard it is to Keep from Being King When It's in you and in the Situation	453	(9)
Lines Written in Dejection On the Eve of Great Success	462	(2)
The Milky Way is a Cowpath	464	(1)
Some Science Fiction	465	(2)
Quandary	467	(1)
A Reflex	468	(1)
In a Glass of Cider	468	(1)
From Iron	468	(1)
[Four-Room Shack...]	469	(1)
[But Outer Space...]	469	(1)
On Being Chosen Poet of Vermont	469	(1)
[We Vainly Wrestle...]	469	(1)
[It Takes All Sorts...]	470	(1)
[In Winter in the Woods...]	470	(3)
A MASQUE OF REASON
A Masque of Reason	473	(20)
A MASQUE OF MERCY
A Masque of Mercy	493	(32)
NOTES
Bibliographical & Textual Notes	525	(60)
INDEX
Index of First Lines & Titles	585