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You Come Too : Favorite Poems For Young Readers
THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A collection of poems chosen by Frost to be read and enjoyed by children (and their elders), including ""Acquainted With The Night,"" ""A Patch Of Old Snow,"" ""Not Of School Age, ""and ""Mending Wa
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Robert Frost
1,036 books5,046 followersFlinty, moody, plainspoken and deep, Robert Frost was one of America's most popular 20th-century poets. Frost was farming in Derry, New Hampshire when, at the age of 38, he sold the farm, uprooted his family and moved to England, where he devoted himself to his poetry. His first two books of verse, A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), were immediate successes. In 1915 he returned to the United States and continued to write while living in New Hampshire and then Vermont. His pastoral images of apple trees and stone fences -- along with his solitary, man-of-few-words poetic voice -- helped define the modern image of rural New England. Frost's poems include "Mending Wall" ("Good fences make good neighbors"), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ("Whose woods these are I think I know"), and perhaps his most famous work, "The Road Not Taken" ("Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- / I took the one less traveled by"). Frost was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry four times: in 1924, 1931, 1937 and 1943. He also served as "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress" from 1958-59; that position was renamed as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (or simply Poet Laureate) in 1986.
Frost recited his poem "The Gift Outright" at the 1961 inauguration of John F. Kennedy... Frost attended both Dartmouth College and Harvard, but did not graduate from either school... Frost preferred traditional rhyme and meter in poetry; his famous dismissal of free verse was, "I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."
Frost recited his poem "The Gift Outright" at the 1961 inauguration of John F. Kennedy... Frost attended both Dartmouth College and Harvard, but did not graduate from either school... Frost preferred traditional rhyme and meter in poetry; his famous dismissal of free verse was, "I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."
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July 7, 2009
In this slim volume of 51 poems by Robert Frost, with foreword by Hyde Cox, and wood engravings by Thomas W. Nosan, you will notice that though most of the poems include people, they are all about things that grow; and many are about and for “people that grow” – children.
This collection of clever, observant and compassionate poems – selected by Frost himself for young readers – is recommended reading for Grades 6-8, but I suggest they are poems to be read to and by readers of any age. The book is dedicated to his mother, Belle Moodie Frost, “…who knew as a teacher that no poetry was good for children that wasn't equally good for their elders.” Frost obviously chose these particular poems as a good variety for the young reader; a young reader to be treated as adult, with respect, and without condescension.
If you are already familiar with Frost, the only four-time Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, then you will be happy to know that included in this collection are some old favourites: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; Fire and Ice; and The Mending Wall.
Robert Frost considered both the writing and reading of a poem to be “little voyages of discovery” and with this volume, he is offering an invitation that YOU COME TOO.
January 26, 2021
This small paperback has migrated around my nightstand for years. It is inviting and accessible poetry without being trite. It is a book that rewards the occasional reader.
I particularly love reading the winter poems. I had forgotten the poignant poem, The Death of the Hired Man. Oh, how I would love to lead a class discussion on it.
A few years ago, I labeled our year as the "You Come Too" year -- every trip we took was shared with a friend or family. I love the phrase; it would make a great life motto.
I particularly love reading the winter poems. I had forgotten the poignant poem, The Death of the Hired Man. Oh, how I would love to lead a class discussion on it.
A few years ago, I labeled our year as the "You Come Too" year -- every trip we took was shared with a friend or family. I love the phrase; it would make a great life motto.
February 18, 2017
"You Come Too" by Robert Frost is a very skilled level poetry book. Inside the book, you will find poems for not only like it says on the cover (Favorite Poems For Young Readers), but for all ages. Frost has some very great poems that you could read over and over again. I rated this book 5 stars because it truly is amazing poetry and Robert Frost deserves a good rating for his poetry. I did not rate this any lower because good poetry does not lie and this book should be read by anyone who wants to write poetry. I recommend this book to poetry lover, but also anyone else who is looking for an awesome book to read.
May 17, 2018
I love my favorites, but didn't find any new favorites this time around. There are plenty of poems in this volume which didn't resonate with me--but the ones that do resonate with me I love enough to give the collection as a whole 4 stars.
The best part about this collection was re-visiting poems I love which I had forgotten about (temporarily). It was fun to see how much I remembered of the poems I thought I had forgotten.
The best part about this collection was re-visiting poems I love which I had forgotten about (temporarily). It was fun to see how much I remembered of the poems I thought I had forgotten.
June 1, 2018
This book has a compilation of poems from Robert Frost. They are short and sweet poems. One of my favorite poems in this is "The rose family". The poem symbolizes beauty as a rose. It says that everything is a rose. Everybody and everything is beautiful.
Another poem that i likeis the poem"Looking for a sunset bird in winter. It talks about a person waiting for the winter to leave.As he awaits for spring to come and the birds to sing. It has ivid imagery and describes the landscape. "from north to south across the blue; A piercing little star was through."
Another poem that i likeis the poem"Looking for a sunset bird in winter. It talks about a person waiting for the winter to leave.As he awaits for spring to come and the birds to sing. It has ivid imagery and describes the landscape. "from north to south across the blue; A piercing little star was through."
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May 27, 2025frost loved a birch tree. can’t relate
January 19, 2022
According to the inscription, my mother gave this to me 30 years ago and I read it a million times. I have now read it again as an adult and it’s like a different book. Poetry! Read a poem once, then read it again. Both aloud. It’s like that moment during a long yoga stretch that you feel your muscle give.
January 8, 2014
I received this collection (well, an addition I can't find on goodreads,) as a child. It was before I had grown to love poetry, and to be honest, it has sat, neglected, on my shelf ever since. Even when I came to passionately love poetry, I looked at this book and turned my back - Robert Frost, simplistic rhymes about nature, right?
I will be the first to admit I was wrong. Something I have learned over the last two years is that I actually really admire good form - well structured, rhyming poetry. When everything is so structured, physically, it is easy to go wild within the poem. I have also come to find that well-done - well-done, of course, being the key word - rhythm and rhyme is amazing, phonetically. (It is still hard for me to admit this, and that is why it was easy to ignore this little book.)
Overall, I felt that this collection was mixed in this regard. Some of these poems were not well paced, and I didn't feel like the rhyming worked - they were awkward and hard to read. Others, however, begged to be read out loud - and of course I read them!
So, I suppose this collection could have been edited better. It is supposed to be "favorite poems for young readers," so the more ungainly poems could have been cut.
The forward of this collection admittedly confused me a little; is this actually intended for children, or philosophical students? I am not familiar enough with Frost's work to be able to determine which I thought it was for after reading the forward. If it was literally meant for kids, I would also suggest that it could have been edited better. There was one poem, specifically, that I was surprised turned up in this collection: "The Death of the Hired Man." It is one of the longer, if not the longest, piece in the collection. It is about how a hired man returns to an old job, and while he suffers in another room, his previous employers say he means less to them then a strange dog. It was dark and depressing and honest, but too much of these things for a small child.
But, on to the topics. Some of these felt very "simple" to me, and seemed like they were merely scenes of nature. This isn't a bad thing; many of these poems were very entertaining - although many didn't work for me. Others used nature and rural life to get across a message. Many of these poems were surprisingly deeply moving to me. I would not under-estimate Frost's talent again, and I will certainly read more in the future. The man won four pulitzers, after all.
I will be the first to admit I was wrong. Something I have learned over the last two years is that I actually really admire good form - well structured, rhyming poetry. When everything is so structured, physically, it is easy to go wild within the poem. I have also come to find that well-done - well-done, of course, being the key word - rhythm and rhyme is amazing, phonetically. (It is still hard for me to admit this, and that is why it was easy to ignore this little book.)
Overall, I felt that this collection was mixed in this regard. Some of these poems were not well paced, and I didn't feel like the rhyming worked - they were awkward and hard to read. Others, however, begged to be read out loud - and of course I read them!
So, I suppose this collection could have been edited better. It is supposed to be "favorite poems for young readers," so the more ungainly poems could have been cut.
The forward of this collection admittedly confused me a little; is this actually intended for children, or philosophical students? I am not familiar enough with Frost's work to be able to determine which I thought it was for after reading the forward. If it was literally meant for kids, I would also suggest that it could have been edited better. There was one poem, specifically, that I was surprised turned up in this collection: "The Death of the Hired Man." It is one of the longer, if not the longest, piece in the collection. It is about how a hired man returns to an old job, and while he suffers in another room, his previous employers say he means less to them then a strange dog. It was dark and depressing and honest, but too much of these things for a small child.
But, on to the topics. Some of these felt very "simple" to me, and seemed like they were merely scenes of nature. This isn't a bad thing; many of these poems were very entertaining - although many didn't work for me. Others used nature and rural life to get across a message. Many of these poems were surprisingly deeply moving to me. I would not under-estimate Frost's talent again, and I will certainly read more in the future. The man won four pulitzers, after all.
July 9, 2022
One of the twentieth century's most adored and cherished poets, Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize four times for his verse. This sampling includes some of his greatest feats, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "The Death of the Hired Man," and "The Road Not Taken." Because his poems habitually focus on birch trees, fireflies, and farm life, many view Frost as a folksy nature poet — and his work can unquestionably be enjoyed on that level.
But repeated readings reveal layers of meaning just below each homespun surface, as Frost explores such weighty themes as mortality, alienation, and heartbreak.
He is also a stylist of the highest order, using not just standard rhyme patterns but frequently blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) in poems such as "Mending Wall."
This volume provides a succinct, easy to get to introduction to Frost's work.
But repeated readings reveal layers of meaning just below each homespun surface, as Frost explores such weighty themes as mortality, alienation, and heartbreak.
He is also a stylist of the highest order, using not just standard rhyme patterns but frequently blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) in poems such as "Mending Wall."
This volume provides a succinct, easy to get to introduction to Frost's work.
February 9, 2011
Robert Frost is by far my favorite poet. There are two main reasons for this. The first is his use of colloquial language throughout his poems, and the second is his accurate descriptions of nature. I strive to be able to identify nature the way Frost does, and I hope readers will be able to identify with what I write about, that they will be able to relate to it, and one way of doing that is by using colloquial language.
June 17, 2024
I’ve never really enjoyed Frost much, for some reason I couldn’t get into him. His poems are simple enough, with more than a few moral lessons between the lines. I think something about the fact that this book is meant for children or maybe the fact that I’d read the poems to my cat while she purred so sweetly in my lap made me sink deeper and deeper into each one. “The Tuft of Flowers” made me cry, and “Tree at My Window” felt like a glimpse into many sleepless nights of my life. Thanks Rob
January 21, 2008
me and ex girlfriend found it at st vinnies she found it but i wanted it i took it when we broke up didnt tell her abt it
July 18, 2019
This is now the 3rd time that I have read this book and I can honestly say it gets better every single time. I have officially decided that this is my all-time favorite poetry book.
February 3, 2019
This particular short book of poetry answered a few questions for me personally. For one, how was it that I viewed Robert Frost as a good poet? If one reads his early poetic works, which are the ones most accessible to adults, the poetry that is shown is, for the most part, not very good. To be sure, "The Road Not Taken" and "The Death Of The Hired Man" are classics, and you will be seeing them in just about every poetry volume of Frost's that you would read (including this one), but the context around those early works is not as enjoyable. I grew up thinking of Frost as a good poet, and when I read his early works I had no idea why that was the case since those volumes were so undistinguished. And yet this book answers the question of how it was that a young man who grew up enjoying reading and writing poetry came to think of Frost as a worthwhile poet. This book serves as a better introduction than most to the poets work, but it is a shame that many adults will not read it because it it targeted at young readers, and many people who are adults, even those who read, are self-conscious about such matters.
As a volume, this book contains about 100 pages worth of poetry and copies of woodcuts by Thomas Nason. The woodcuts certainly add that New England verisimilitude to the poems, which likewise picture a world where one can be acquainted with the night and the snows of winter pretty easily. The poems are pretty good to great, ranging from the short and enigmatic "One Guess" to the lengthy "The Death Of The Hired Man." Many of the poems examine gardens or the thaws of winter snows, or plant and animal life that one would see on a farm or in creation or in a small village with lots of green space. some of the poems relate to concerns that children would have, including "Not Of School Age" or the romance of "Two Tramps In Mud Time" or the concerns common to humanity at large of "A Time To Talk." This is a book I could imagine myself having read as a child and giving me an appreciation of Frost that many readers would not have if they had learned of his works another way. This is a better way of finding out about Frost than most, unless one had read his chicken stories first.
And although Frost had a well-earned reputation for being a crusty person who both complained about being misunderstood and deliberately courted being misunderstood by the way he wrote, there is something endearing about the way that this collection manage to deliberately appeal to the sensibilities of the young and their interest in riddles and the wonders of creation rather than being deliberately difficult for children to relate to. Sometimes writers can be deliberately obscure in ways than alienate readers, and in general this sort of problem can be particularly serious in those people who wish to maintain some sort of critical appeal. The fact that this book is aimed at children allows Frost to put down his persona of being a confusing person and simply be someone who could write charming and accessible poetry for all ages. And surely that is a better thing to be remembered for. The fact that these poems are accessible does not make them boring or uninteresting. Many of them have layers and can provide hooks to more in-depth discussions of issues of life and death, identity, belonging, and the passage of time. Why not celebrate something that can be grasped by the young, for whom an acquaintance with good poetry can inspire a lifelong appreciation for it?
As a volume, this book contains about 100 pages worth of poetry and copies of woodcuts by Thomas Nason. The woodcuts certainly add that New England verisimilitude to the poems, which likewise picture a world where one can be acquainted with the night and the snows of winter pretty easily. The poems are pretty good to great, ranging from the short and enigmatic "One Guess" to the lengthy "The Death Of The Hired Man." Many of the poems examine gardens or the thaws of winter snows, or plant and animal life that one would see on a farm or in creation or in a small village with lots of green space. some of the poems relate to concerns that children would have, including "Not Of School Age" or the romance of "Two Tramps In Mud Time" or the concerns common to humanity at large of "A Time To Talk." This is a book I could imagine myself having read as a child and giving me an appreciation of Frost that many readers would not have if they had learned of his works another way. This is a better way of finding out about Frost than most, unless one had read his chicken stories first.
And although Frost had a well-earned reputation for being a crusty person who both complained about being misunderstood and deliberately courted being misunderstood by the way he wrote, there is something endearing about the way that this collection manage to deliberately appeal to the sensibilities of the young and their interest in riddles and the wonders of creation rather than being deliberately difficult for children to relate to. Sometimes writers can be deliberately obscure in ways than alienate readers, and in general this sort of problem can be particularly serious in those people who wish to maintain some sort of critical appeal. The fact that this book is aimed at children allows Frost to put down his persona of being a confusing person and simply be someone who could write charming and accessible poetry for all ages. And surely that is a better thing to be remembered for. The fact that these poems are accessible does not make them boring or uninteresting. Many of them have layers and can provide hooks to more in-depth discussions of issues of life and death, identity, belonging, and the passage of time. Why not celebrate something that can be grasped by the young, for whom an acquaintance with good poetry can inspire a lifelong appreciation for it?
October 24, 2021
A great collection of poems from Robert Frost, stated to be for younger readers but very enjoyable for this old man. Frost can sometimes be a little too pastoral (at least for me), but wow when he delivers it’s with such force because he’s so profound yet so simple at the same time.
There are images here which are ingrained in my mind years after having read the poems for the first time:
From “The Death of the Hired Man”, two definitions of Home: “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.” With the response: “I should have called it / Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.”
The feeling of brotherhood in “The Tuft of Flowers” as a worker spots flowers left unmown simply for their beauty: “’Men work together,’ I told him from the heart, / ‘Whether they work together or apart.’”
The feeling that individuality should be supported which comes from guilt at having shooed a bird away for its loud chirping in “A Minor Bird”: “And of course there must be something wrong / In wanting to silence any song.”
And lastly, the joy in small things that comes from seeing flowers out of a train window in “A Passing Glimpse”: “Heaven gives its glimpses only to those / Not in position to look too close.”
The collection also contains three of my favorite poems:
The Road Not Taken
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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 undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Acquainted with the Night
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I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain – and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-by;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
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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.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
There are images here which are ingrained in my mind years after having read the poems for the first time:
From “The Death of the Hired Man”, two definitions of Home: “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.” With the response: “I should have called it / Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.”
The feeling of brotherhood in “The Tuft of Flowers” as a worker spots flowers left unmown simply for their beauty: “’Men work together,’ I told him from the heart, / ‘Whether they work together or apart.’”
The feeling that individuality should be supported which comes from guilt at having shooed a bird away for its loud chirping in “A Minor Bird”: “And of course there must be something wrong / In wanting to silence any song.”
And lastly, the joy in small things that comes from seeing flowers out of a train window in “A Passing Glimpse”: “Heaven gives its glimpses only to those / Not in position to look too close.”
The collection also contains three of my favorite poems:
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 undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Acquainted with the Night
---------------------
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain – and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-by;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
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.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
April 26, 2021
Who am I to say I don't love Robert Frost? I liked some of these poems very much, but as I read I kept thinking how "American" they sounded - pragmatic and almost painfully sparse. (Yet Emily Dickinson, another American poet - and the queen of spartan poetry, managed to inject playful, glittering language into her poems.)
I read a lot of poetry so I'm accustomed to more joyous wordplay ("Tis brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe") or the sheer beauty of "The world is charged with the grandeur of God, it will flame out like shining from shook foil." So the last stanza of "A Nature Note" (below) was hard to appreciate.
(regarding the whippoorwills singing)
I took note of when it occurred,
The twenty-third of September,
Their latest that I remember,
September the twenty-third.
I read a lot of poetry so I'm accustomed to more joyous wordplay ("Tis brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe") or the sheer beauty of "The world is charged with the grandeur of God, it will flame out like shining from shook foil." So the last stanza of "A Nature Note" (below) was hard to appreciate.
(regarding the whippoorwills singing)
I took note of when it occurred,
The twenty-third of September,
Their latest that I remember,
September the twenty-third.
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October 23, 2025A 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 TooA collection of poems selected by Frost himself to be read and enjoyed by all readers, young and old.
October 2, 2023
Rating: 4.5 stars
Read mostly on the commutes to and from work and this was excellent. As someone who has always loved Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, I had a hunch that I would like Frost's poetry. It turns out, I was very right. There is a simplicity to him that invites sentimentality and detailed reading. The way different poems like Stopping by the Woods... and You Come Too play off of each other is so wonderful to witness.
Overall, I had an excellent time.
Highly recommended.
Read mostly on the commutes to and from work and this was excellent. As someone who has always loved Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening, I had a hunch that I would like Frost's poetry. It turns out, I was very right. There is a simplicity to him that invites sentimentality and detailed reading. The way different poems like Stopping by the Woods... and You Come Too play off of each other is so wonderful to witness.
Overall, I had an excellent time.
Highly recommended.
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November 7, 2023I had this book in my classroom for a while and would occasionally read when I didn't bring another book at lunch. Finally finished it today, I have to say the Road Less Taken feels very different and meaningful in a way about our life choices and how we think of decisions as one thing but each moment is a splitting off. That said, many of the other poems were inaccessible or of a time that I don't relate to.
February 6, 2022
Frost is an old friend to many including me. His poetry flows from the land and the people of his rural New England space. You find yourself walking through fields and tracks learning to watch for the small moments and the quiet conversations that take on extra meaning when Frost draws your attention to them, things you might not have seen or thought much of before.
March 28, 2024
some hits, some misses, but mostly hits!! frost is so good at describing the wonder of nature in a way that makes you miss the warmth of spring.
“Be glad of water, but don't forget / The lurking frost in the earth beneath / That will steal forth after the sun is set / And show on the water its crystal teeth.” was one of my fav quotes from this.
“Be glad of water, but don't forget / The lurking frost in the earth beneath / That will steal forth after the sun is set / And show on the water its crystal teeth.” was one of my fav quotes from this.
December 30, 2024
I know he’s one of America’s most celebrated poets. But honestly he makes me understand why the average person today says “blech” about poetry. Rhyme and rhythm abound and his work feels “of its time” in a way that doesn’t end up feeling particularly relevant today. I enjoyed some but as it took me an entire 11 months to get through this…3 stars is right.
December 27, 2018
I have read this book before but I do not think I appreciated it as much as I do now. Each poem is beautiful and relatable and often times funny. It was a wonderful book of poems I have a feeling I will not leave unattended!
October 4, 2020
I enjoyed reading these one or two at a time and then thinking about them. Robert Frost himself selected this collection of poems for young readers. But not every poem is appealing. A young reader might want to select the ones of interest.
October 26, 2020
What a delightful collection of poetry. I did not used to be a huge fan of Frost, but I find myself increasingly lost in the pastoral language that he uses in his poetry. I'm glad it was my first full dose of poetry this year :)
December 28, 2020
Stirring, poignant, practical. So much of modern poetry is about human emotion, but Robert never forgets about the land where we live out that emotion. Nature is often it’s own character, as it should be.
June 28, 2022
I really enjoyed these poems. Though I know they were chosen specifically for young readers, I think they are also great for someone like myself, who hasn’t read a lot of poetry. Simple and easy, yet also beautiful. Some told a story one could follow. Some made one think. Great.
May 23, 2018
First collection of Frost I've read. So glad I looked into Bradbury's advice and started reading poetry.
October 3, 2018
Nice. I enjoyed the variety of styles of the famous poet.
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March 6, 2020“We love the things we love for what they are.”
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