One Step Backward Taken (Robert Frost Poem)
Not only sands and gravels Were once more on their travels, But gulping muddy gallons Great boulders off their balance ...
Not only sands and gravels Were once more on their travels, But gulping muddy gallons Great boulders off their balance ...
Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of ...
As told to a child As I went out a Crow In a low voice said, "Oh, I was looking ...
Love and forgetting might have carried them A little further up the mountain side With night so near, but not ...
The witch that came (the withered hag) To wash the steps with pail and rag, Was once the beauty Abishag, ...
There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks ...
Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall, We stopped by a mountain pasture to say 'Whose ...
There's a patch of old snow in a corner That I should have guessed Was a blow-away paper the rain ...
Dust always blowing about the town, Except when sea-fog laid it down, And I was one of the children told ...
Before man came to blow it right The wind once blew itself untaught, And did its loudest day and night ...
The old dog barks backwards without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup. (Robert Frost)
I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands ...
(A Christmas Circular Letter) THE CITY had withdrawn into itself And left at last the country to the country; When ...
Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a ...
(To hear us talk) The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is ...
OH, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain ...
All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on ...
The same leaves over and over again! They fall from giving shade above To make one texture of faded brown ...
The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look ...
He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled, That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust, But still lies ...
'When I was just as far as I could walk From here today, There was an hour All still When ...
The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But ...
When I go up through the mowing field, The headless aftermath, Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew, Half closes ...
To Ridgely Torrence On Last Looking into His 'Hesperides' I often see flowers from a passing car That are gone ...
I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise ...
A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars ...
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand ...
How countlessly they congregate O'er our tumultuous snow, Which flows in shapes as tall as trees When wintry winds do ...
The house had gone to bring again To the midnight sky a sunset glow. Now the chimney was all of ...
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for Warren. When she heard his step, She ran on ...
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