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The Collected Poems of Robert Frost (Volume 7)
Likely one of the most well-known poets in American literary history, Robert Frost, born in California, lived much of his life in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, thus, his most popular poetry depicted subtle New England charm.
Frost’s style was largely free verse, though he did find a fair amount of structure in poetry could often be inspiring. Forever searching for 'the sound of sense,' Robert Frost's lyrical poetry is eloquent, precise, and robust. The Collected Poems of Robert Frost, includes the inspiring poetry of Frost's first three collections, including his earliest major poems "The Road Not Taken" and "Mending Wall" making this edition one you shouldn't miss!
Frost’s style was largely free verse, though he did find a fair amount of structure in poetry could often be inspiring. Forever searching for 'the sound of sense,' Robert Frost's lyrical poetry is eloquent, precise, and robust. The Collected Poems of Robert Frost, includes the inspiring poetry of Frost's first three collections, including his earliest major poems "The Road Not Taken" and "Mending Wall" making this edition one you shouldn't miss!
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First published January 1, 1963
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Robert Frost
1,025 books5,033 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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January 13, 2015
--The Pasture
A Boy's Will
--Into My Own
--Ghost House
--My November Guest
--Love and a Question
--A Late Walk
--Stars
--Storm Fear
--Wind and Window Flower
--To the Thawing Wind
--A Prayer in Spring
--Flower-Gathering
--Rose Pogonias
--Waiting
--In a Vale
--A Dream Pang
--In Neglect
--The Vantage Point
--Mowing
--Going for Water
--Revelation
--The Trial by Existence
--The Tuft of Flowers
--Pan with Us
--The Demiurge's Laugh
--Now Close the Windows
--In Hardwood Groves
--A Line-Storm Song
--October
--My Butterfly
--Reluctance
North of Boston
--Mending Wall
--The Death of the Hired Man
--The Mountain
--A Hundred Collars
--Home Burial
--The Black Cottage
--Blueberries
--A Servant to Servants
--After Apple-Picking
--The Code
--The Generations of Men
--The Housekeeper
--The Fear
--The Self-Seeker
--The Wood-Pile
--Good Hours
Mountain Interval
--The Road Not Taken
--Christmas Trees
--An Old Man's Winter Night
--The Exposed Nest
--A Patch of Old Snow
--In the Home Stretch
--The Telephone
--Meeting and Passing
--Hyla Brook
--The Oven Bird
--Bond and Free
--Birches
--Pea Brush
--Putting in the Seed
--A Time to Talk
--The Cow in Apple Time
--An Encounter
--Range-Finding
The Hill Wife:
--I. Loneliness
--II. House Fear
--III. The Smile
--IV. The Oft-Repeated Dream
--V. The Impulse
--The Bonfire
--A Girl's Garden
--Locked Out
--The Last Word of a Bluebird
--"Out, Out---"
--Brown's Descent
--The Gum-Gatherer
--The Line-Gang
--The Vanishing Red
--Snow
--The Sound of Trees
New Hampshire
--New Hampshire
--A Star in a Stoneboat
--The Census-Taker
--The Star-Splitter
--Maple
--The Ax-Helve
--The Grindstone
--Paul's Wife
--Wild Grapes
--Place for a Third
Two Witches:
--I. The Witch of Coös
--II. The Pauper Witch of Grafton
--An Empty Threat
--A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey's Ears, and Some Books
--I Will Sing You One-O
--Fragmentary Blue
--Fire and Ice
--In a Disused Graveyard
--Dust of Snow
--To E. T.
--Nothing Gold Can Stay
--The Runaway
--The Aim Was Song
--Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
--For Once, Then, Something
--Blue-Butterfly Day
--The Onset
--To Earthward
--Good-by and Keep Cold
--Two Look at Two
--Not to Keep
--A Brook in the City
--The Kitchen Chimney
--Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter
--A Boundless Moment
--Evening in a Sugar Orchard
--Gathering Leaves
--The Valley's Singing Day
--Misgiving
--A Hillside Thaw
--Plowmen
--On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
--Our Singing Strength
--The Lockless Door
--The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
West-Running Brook
--Spring Pools
--The Freedom of the Moon
--The Rose Family
--Fireflies in the Garden
--Atmosphere
--Devotion
--On Going Unnoticed
--The Cocoon
--A Passing Glimpse
--A Peck of Gold
--Acceptance
--Once by the Pacific
--Lodged
--A Minor Bird
--Bereft
--Tree at My Window
--The Peaceful Shepherd
--The Thatch
--A Winter Eden
--The Flood
--Acquainted with the Night
--The Lovely Shall Be Choosers
--West-Running Brook
--Sand Dunes
--Canis Major
--A Soldier
--Immigrants
--Hannibal
--The Flower Boat
--The Times Table
--The Investment
--The Last Mowing
--The Birthplace
--The Door in the Dark
--Dust in the Eyes
--Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight
--The Armful
--What Fifty Said
--Riders
--On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations
--The Bear
--The Egg and the Machine
A Further Range
--A Lone Striker
--Two Tramps in Mud Time
--The White-Tailed Hornet
--A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury
--A Drumlin Woodchuck
--The Gold Hesperidee
--In Time of Cloudburst
--A Roadside Stand
--Departmental
--The Old Barn at the Bottom of the Fogs
--On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind
--The Figure in the Doorway
--At Woodward's Gardens
--A Record Stride
--Lost in Heaven
--Desert Places
--Leaves Compared with Flowers
--A Leaf-Treader
--On Taking from the Top to Broaden the Base
--They Were Welcome to Their Belief
--The Strong Are Saying Nothing
--The Master Speed
--Moon Compasses
--Neither Out Far nor In Deep
--Voice Ways
--Design
--On a Bird Singing in Its Sleep
--Afterflakes
--Clear and Colder
--Unharvested
--There Are Roughly Zones
--A Trial Run
--Not Quite Social
--Provide, Provide
Ten Mills:
--I. Precaution
--II. The Span of Life
--III. The Wrights' Biplane
--IV. Evil Tendencies Cancel
--V. Pertinax
--VI. Waspish
--VII. One Guess
--VIII. The Hardship of Accounting
--IX. Not All There
--X. In Divés' Dive
--The Vindictives
--The Bearer of Evil Tidings
--Iris by Night
--Build Soil
--To a Thinker
--A Missive Missile
A Witness Tree
--Beech
--Sycamore
--The Silken Tent
--All Revelation
--Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length
--Come In
--I Could Give All to Time
--Carpe Diem
--The Wind and the Rain
--The Most of It
--Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
--The Subverted Flower
--Willful Homing
--A Cloud Shadow
--The Quest of the Purple-Fringed
--The Discovery of the Madeiras
--The Gift Outright
--Triple Bronze
--Our Hold on the Planet
--To a Young Wretch
--The Lesson for Today
--Time Out
--To a Moth Seen in Winter
--A Considerable Speck
--The Lost Follower
--November
--The Rabbit-Hunter
--A Loose Mountain
--It Is Almost the Year Two Thousand
--In a Poem
--On Our Sympathy with the Under Dog
--A Question
--Boeotian
--The Secret Sits
--An Equalizer
--A Semi-Revolution
--Assurance
--An Answer
--Trespass
--A Nature Note
--Of the Stones of the Place
--Not of School Age
--A Serious Step Lightly Taken
--The Literate Farmer and the Planet Venus
Steeple Bush
--A Young Birch
--Something for Hope
--One Step Backward Taken
--Directive
--Too Anxious for Rivers
--An Unstamped Letter in Our Rural Letter Box
--To an Ancient
Five Nocturnes:
--I. The Night Light
--II. Were I in Trouble
--III. Bravado
--IV. On Making Certain Anything Has Happened
--V. In the Long Night
--A Mood Apart
--The Fear of God
--The Fear of Man
--A Steeple on the House
--Innate Helium
--The Courage to Be New
--Iota Subscript
--The Middleness of the Road
--Astrometaphysical
--Skeptic
--Two Leading Lights
--A Rogers Group
--On Being Idolized
--A Wish to Comply
--A Cliff Dwelling
--It Bids Pretty Fair
--Beyond Words
--A Case for Jefferson
--Lucretius versus the Lake Poets
--Haec Fabula Docet
--Etherealizing
--Why Wait for Science
--Any Size We Please
--An Importer
--The Planners
--No Holy Wars for Them
--Bursting Rapture
--U. S. 1946 King's X
--The Ingenuities of Debt
--The Broken Drought
--To the Right Person
"An Afterword" from Complete Poems
--Take Something Like a Star
--From Plane to Plane
In The Clearing
--Pod of the Milkweed
--Away!
--A Cabin in the Clearing
--Closed for Good
--America Is Hard to See
--One More Brevity
--Escapist---Never
--For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration
--Accidentally on Purpose
--A Never Naught Song
--Version
--A Concept Self-Conceived
--[Forgive, O Lord ...]
--Kitty Hawk
--Auspex
--The Draft Horse
--Ends
--Peril of Hope
--Questioning Faces
--Does No One at All Ever Feel This Way in the Least?
--The Bad Island---Easter
--Our Doom to Bloom
--The Objection to Being Stepped On
--A-Wishing Well
--How Hard It Is to Keep from Being King When It's in You and in the Situation
--Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of Great Success
--The Milky Way Is a Cowpath
--Some Science Fiction
--Quandary
--A Reflex
--In a Glass of Cider
--From Iron
--[Four-Room Shack ...]
--[But Outer Space ...]
--On Being Chosen Poet of Vermont
--[We Vainly Wrestle ...]
--[It Takes All Sorts ...]
--[In Winter in the Woods ...]
--A Masque Of Reason
--A Masque Of Mercy
Editor's Statement
Notes
Index of First Lines & Titles
A Boy's Will
--Into My Own
--Ghost House
--My November Guest
--Love and a Question
--A Late Walk
--Stars
--Storm Fear
--Wind and Window Flower
--To the Thawing Wind
--A Prayer in Spring
--Flower-Gathering
--Rose Pogonias
--Waiting
--In a Vale
--A Dream Pang
--In Neglect
--The Vantage Point
--Mowing
--Going for Water
--Revelation
--The Trial by Existence
--The Tuft of Flowers
--Pan with Us
--The Demiurge's Laugh
--Now Close the Windows
--In Hardwood Groves
--A Line-Storm Song
--October
--My Butterfly
--Reluctance
North of Boston
--Mending Wall
--The Death of the Hired Man
--The Mountain
--A Hundred Collars
--Home Burial
--The Black Cottage
--Blueberries
--A Servant to Servants
--After Apple-Picking
--The Code
--The Generations of Men
--The Housekeeper
--The Fear
--The Self-Seeker
--The Wood-Pile
--Good Hours
Mountain Interval
--The Road Not Taken
--Christmas Trees
--An Old Man's Winter Night
--The Exposed Nest
--A Patch of Old Snow
--In the Home Stretch
--The Telephone
--Meeting and Passing
--Hyla Brook
--The Oven Bird
--Bond and Free
--Birches
--Pea Brush
--Putting in the Seed
--A Time to Talk
--The Cow in Apple Time
--An Encounter
--Range-Finding
The Hill Wife:
--I. Loneliness
--II. House Fear
--III. The Smile
--IV. The Oft-Repeated Dream
--V. The Impulse
--The Bonfire
--A Girl's Garden
--Locked Out
--The Last Word of a Bluebird
--"Out, Out---"
--Brown's Descent
--The Gum-Gatherer
--The Line-Gang
--The Vanishing Red
--Snow
--The Sound of Trees
New Hampshire
--New Hampshire
--A Star in a Stoneboat
--The Census-Taker
--The Star-Splitter
--Maple
--The Ax-Helve
--The Grindstone
--Paul's Wife
--Wild Grapes
--Place for a Third
Two Witches:
--I. The Witch of Coös
--II. The Pauper Witch of Grafton
--An Empty Threat
--A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey's Ears, and Some Books
--I Will Sing You One-O
--Fragmentary Blue
--Fire and Ice
--In a Disused Graveyard
--Dust of Snow
--To E. T.
--Nothing Gold Can Stay
--The Runaway
--The Aim Was Song
--Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
--For Once, Then, Something
--Blue-Butterfly Day
--The Onset
--To Earthward
--Good-by and Keep Cold
--Two Look at Two
--Not to Keep
--A Brook in the City
--The Kitchen Chimney
--Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter
--A Boundless Moment
--Evening in a Sugar Orchard
--Gathering Leaves
--The Valley's Singing Day
--Misgiving
--A Hillside Thaw
--Plowmen
--On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
--Our Singing Strength
--The Lockless Door
--The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
West-Running Brook
--Spring Pools
--The Freedom of the Moon
--The Rose Family
--Fireflies in the Garden
--Atmosphere
--Devotion
--On Going Unnoticed
--The Cocoon
--A Passing Glimpse
--A Peck of Gold
--Acceptance
--Once by the Pacific
--Lodged
--A Minor Bird
--Bereft
--Tree at My Window
--The Peaceful Shepherd
--The Thatch
--A Winter Eden
--The Flood
--Acquainted with the Night
--The Lovely Shall Be Choosers
--West-Running Brook
--Sand Dunes
--Canis Major
--A Soldier
--Immigrants
--Hannibal
--The Flower Boat
--The Times Table
--The Investment
--The Last Mowing
--The Birthplace
--The Door in the Dark
--Dust in the Eyes
--Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight
--The Armful
--What Fifty Said
--Riders
--On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations
--The Bear
--The Egg and the Machine
A Further Range
--A Lone Striker
--Two Tramps in Mud Time
--The White-Tailed Hornet
--A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury
--A Drumlin Woodchuck
--The Gold Hesperidee
--In Time of Cloudburst
--A Roadside Stand
--Departmental
--The Old Barn at the Bottom of the Fogs
--On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind
--The Figure in the Doorway
--At Woodward's Gardens
--A Record Stride
--Lost in Heaven
--Desert Places
--Leaves Compared with Flowers
--A Leaf-Treader
--On Taking from the Top to Broaden the Base
--They Were Welcome to Their Belief
--The Strong Are Saying Nothing
--The Master Speed
--Moon Compasses
--Neither Out Far nor In Deep
--Voice Ways
--Design
--On a Bird Singing in Its Sleep
--Afterflakes
--Clear and Colder
--Unharvested
--There Are Roughly Zones
--A Trial Run
--Not Quite Social
--Provide, Provide
Ten Mills:
--I. Precaution
--II. The Span of Life
--III. The Wrights' Biplane
--IV. Evil Tendencies Cancel
--V. Pertinax
--VI. Waspish
--VII. One Guess
--VIII. The Hardship of Accounting
--IX. Not All There
--X. In Divés' Dive
--The Vindictives
--The Bearer of Evil Tidings
--Iris by Night
--Build Soil
--To a Thinker
--A Missive Missile
A Witness Tree
--Beech
--Sycamore
--The Silken Tent
--All Revelation
--Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length
--Come In
--I Could Give All to Time
--Carpe Diem
--The Wind and the Rain
--The Most of It
--Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
--The Subverted Flower
--Willful Homing
--A Cloud Shadow
--The Quest of the Purple-Fringed
--The Discovery of the Madeiras
--The Gift Outright
--Triple Bronze
--Our Hold on the Planet
--To a Young Wretch
--The Lesson for Today
--Time Out
--To a Moth Seen in Winter
--A Considerable Speck
--The Lost Follower
--November
--The Rabbit-Hunter
--A Loose Mountain
--It Is Almost the Year Two Thousand
--In a Poem
--On Our Sympathy with the Under Dog
--A Question
--Boeotian
--The Secret Sits
--An Equalizer
--A Semi-Revolution
--Assurance
--An Answer
--Trespass
--A Nature Note
--Of the Stones of the Place
--Not of School Age
--A Serious Step Lightly Taken
--The Literate Farmer and the Planet Venus
Steeple Bush
--A Young Birch
--Something for Hope
--One Step Backward Taken
--Directive
--Too Anxious for Rivers
--An Unstamped Letter in Our Rural Letter Box
--To an Ancient
Five Nocturnes:
--I. The Night Light
--II. Were I in Trouble
--III. Bravado
--IV. On Making Certain Anything Has Happened
--V. In the Long Night
--A Mood Apart
--The Fear of God
--The Fear of Man
--A Steeple on the House
--Innate Helium
--The Courage to Be New
--Iota Subscript
--The Middleness of the Road
--Astrometaphysical
--Skeptic
--Two Leading Lights
--A Rogers Group
--On Being Idolized
--A Wish to Comply
--A Cliff Dwelling
--It Bids Pretty Fair
--Beyond Words
--A Case for Jefferson
--Lucretius versus the Lake Poets
--Haec Fabula Docet
--Etherealizing
--Why Wait for Science
--Any Size We Please
--An Importer
--The Planners
--No Holy Wars for Them
--Bursting Rapture
--U. S. 1946 King's X
--The Ingenuities of Debt
--The Broken Drought
--To the Right Person
"An Afterword" from Complete Poems
--Take Something Like a Star
--From Plane to Plane
In The Clearing
--Pod of the Milkweed
--Away!
--A Cabin in the Clearing
--Closed for Good
--America Is Hard to See
--One More Brevity
--Escapist---Never
--For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration
--Accidentally on Purpose
--A Never Naught Song
--Version
--A Concept Self-Conceived
--[Forgive, O Lord ...]
--Kitty Hawk
--Auspex
--The Draft Horse
--Ends
--Peril of Hope
--Questioning Faces
--Does No One at All Ever Feel This Way in the Least?
--The Bad Island---Easter
--Our Doom to Bloom
--The Objection to Being Stepped On
--A-Wishing Well
--How Hard It Is to Keep from Being King When It's in You and in the Situation
--Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of Great Success
--The Milky Way Is a Cowpath
--Some Science Fiction
--Quandary
--A Reflex
--In a Glass of Cider
--From Iron
--[Four-Room Shack ...]
--[But Outer Space ...]
--On Being Chosen Poet of Vermont
--[We Vainly Wrestle ...]
--[It Takes All Sorts ...]
--[In Winter in the Woods ...]
--A Masque Of Reason
--A Masque Of Mercy
Editor's Statement
Notes
Index of First Lines & Titles
February 12, 2020
The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length
I failed to connect.
There were certainly aspects I appreciated.
My personal deficits didn't allow me to internalize much of this. I harbor doubts I am the ideal reader for Frost's dialogue's in verse, there's hardship and an embittered politeness about the course of events. I was sometimes struck by a line, an image. This appeared to pass as further rituals were plumbed over the course of a dialogue.
I failed to connect.
There were certainly aspects I appreciated.
My personal deficits didn't allow me to internalize much of this. I harbor doubts I am the ideal reader for Frost's dialogue's in verse, there's hardship and an embittered politeness about the course of events. I was sometimes struck by a line, an image. This appeared to pass as further rituals were plumbed over the course of a dialogue.
September 13, 2022
Fi-na-lly!
Oh my Lord. This felt like a marathon, but here I am and I did it I did it I did it.
Right. Let's look at points:
1. He was definitely a craftsman. There is no doubt he has worked a lot on his art and it shows.
2. The religious poems went completely over my head. Not for me, thank you.
3. I could tell that he is quite a rough man in reality, which was verified in an interview I watched, so thinking about it, I find authenticity better than people-pleasing.
4. The general topics and context felt wooden to me. Even though there was a lot of talk of leaves etc, I realize there wasn't a lot of talk directly about emotion, thus I didn't really feel it. Nevertheless, when he recited one of his poems I was entirely captivated, which is an often phenomenon.
Overall, I would give it a 2.5 ⭐, so in appreciation and respect this translates into a Goodreads 3 stars.
Oh my Lord. This felt like a marathon, but here I am and I did it I did it I did it.
Right. Let's look at points:
1. He was definitely a craftsman. There is no doubt he has worked a lot on his art and it shows.
2. The religious poems went completely over my head. Not for me, thank you.
3. I could tell that he is quite a rough man in reality, which was verified in an interview I watched, so thinking about it, I find authenticity better than people-pleasing.
4. The general topics and context felt wooden to me. Even though there was a lot of talk of leaves etc, I realize there wasn't a lot of talk directly about emotion, thus I didn't really feel it. Nevertheless, when he recited one of his poems I was entirely captivated, which is an often phenomenon.
Overall, I would give it a 2.5 ⭐, so in appreciation and respect this translates into a Goodreads 3 stars.
July 10, 2022
Thank god, the struggle is over at last!
Never have I ever read such boring poetry.
Oftentimes, the poems were sheer endless. How can a poem be so long and yet so devoid of content?
And the shorter poems were no better. I hated the rhyme scheme so much! So many couplets... and they weren't even original.
Frost never writes something unexpected. There were no twists and not much wit.
It's no wonder people don't like poetry when they are forced to read stuff like this in school.
In short, there were countless poems in this collection and I didn't like a single line.
Never have I ever read such boring poetry.
Oftentimes, the poems were sheer endless. How can a poem be so long and yet so devoid of content?
And the shorter poems were no better. I hated the rhyme scheme so much! So many couplets... and they weren't even original.
Frost never writes something unexpected. There were no twists and not much wit.
It's no wonder people don't like poetry when they are forced to read stuff like this in school.
In short, there were countless poems in this collection and I didn't like a single line.
August 7, 2010
I love loVE LOVE this collection. I could get lost in it for days (and that is my plan).
November 5, 2023
Firstly, thanks Simon for this book you gave me come 7 years ago. I read bits and pieces back then but got to read it properly now. My first hard copy poetry book and won't be my last. You've given me some great reads and widened my horizons.
Alright, the review. This book takes me back down memory lane to Year 10 English where I studied Robert Frost's poetry with an English teacher who was so obsessed with analysing every little line of text and the copy of the poem would have all this writing scrawled over it by the time my worksheet was done. So glad those days are over and I can enjoy poetry how I like it. But Mrs Nash, I think you would like how each line is numbered for good reference in this book and Nanna you would think its a good read.
This collection of Frost's works captures you in a flurry of the imagination, whimsical thoughts and pretty things as you are engulfed in beautiful imagery of nature, love, life and wonderful lessons. I spotted my high school reads but found some other favourites and some authentic lines of pure magic. Robert Frost truly is one of the greatest. Have to say I totally felt like Taylor in the brown boots, check furry jacket amongst the autumn leaves of folklore. I felt like I was in some of his poems. This book has made all the difference.
Favourite quotes:
"I shan't be gone long, you come too."
"Or picking the last remaining flower to carry again to you."
"Those stars like some snow-white."
"Oh give us pleasure in the flowers today."
"I left you in the morning, and in the morning glow."
"And be my love in the rain."
"Good fences make good neighbours."
"The scent of apples, I am drowsing off."
"I took the one less travelled by, and it has made all the difference."
"I go up to the stonewall for a friendly visit."
"The flowers were out there with the thieves."
"When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue."
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep"
"and miles to go before I sleep."
"Love at the lips was touch as sweet as I could bear and once that seemed too much I lived on air."
"You of course are a rose, but were always a rose."
"Let the future, what will be, will be."
"I have been once acquainted with the night."
"Something about a kingdom in the sky."
"We saw leaves go to glory."
Alright, the review. This book takes me back down memory lane to Year 10 English where I studied Robert Frost's poetry with an English teacher who was so obsessed with analysing every little line of text and the copy of the poem would have all this writing scrawled over it by the time my worksheet was done. So glad those days are over and I can enjoy poetry how I like it. But Mrs Nash, I think you would like how each line is numbered for good reference in this book and Nanna you would think its a good read.
This collection of Frost's works captures you in a flurry of the imagination, whimsical thoughts and pretty things as you are engulfed in beautiful imagery of nature, love, life and wonderful lessons. I spotted my high school reads but found some other favourites and some authentic lines of pure magic. Robert Frost truly is one of the greatest. Have to say I totally felt like Taylor in the brown boots, check furry jacket amongst the autumn leaves of folklore. I felt like I was in some of his poems. This book has made all the difference.
Favourite quotes:
"I shan't be gone long, you come too."
"Or picking the last remaining flower to carry again to you."
"Those stars like some snow-white."
"Oh give us pleasure in the flowers today."
"I left you in the morning, and in the morning glow."
"And be my love in the rain."
"Good fences make good neighbours."
"The scent of apples, I am drowsing off."
"I took the one less travelled by, and it has made all the difference."
"I go up to the stonewall for a friendly visit."
"The flowers were out there with the thieves."
"When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue."
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep"
"and miles to go before I sleep."
"Love at the lips was touch as sweet as I could bear and once that seemed too much I lived on air."
"You of course are a rose, but were always a rose."
"Let the future, what will be, will be."
"I have been once acquainted with the night."
"Something about a kingdom in the sky."
"We saw leaves go to glory."
March 31, 2016
I'm not going to pretend I understand the poetry I'm reading and the meaning behind every line, but I do like the way it flows and Robert Frosts poetry really calmed me.
Some poems that stood out to me were:
A Line Storm Song
Going For Water
Fire and Ice
In a Disused Graveyard
Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening
A Leaf-Treader
The Secret Sits
Ends
Forgive, O Lord
Some poems that stood out to me were:
A Line Storm Song
Going For Water
Fire and Ice
In a Disused Graveyard
Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening
A Leaf-Treader
The Secret Sits
Ends
Forgive, O Lord
April 27, 2016
A beautiful collection of poetry. Every poetry lover needs to have a selection of Robert Frost writings in the house.
May 31, 2021
Sorry.
May 1, 2024
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December 12, 2021
First part of the book (earlier poems) -> 5/5
Second half (later poems) -> 3/5
Frankly, I liked Frost more before reading this. Not that the later poems were bad. I just sometimes disagreed or didn't get what he was trying to say and they didn't feel as authentic as his earlier works. There was a great poem here or there, but the overwhelming feeling was negative.
Second half (later poems) -> 3/5
Frankly, I liked Frost more before reading this. Not that the later poems were bad. I just sometimes disagreed or didn't get what he was trying to say and they didn't feel as authentic as his earlier works. There was a great poem here or there, but the overwhelming feeling was negative.
December 31, 2017
I went in with the intention to read a poem each night and that did not end up happening.
But I came out realising that longer poems bore me and even though I liked quite a few of the contents maybe I'm just not cut out for reading poetry in this format.
But I came out realising that longer poems bore me and even though I liked quite a few of the contents maybe I'm just not cut out for reading poetry in this format.
March 1, 2022
quite conflicted about frost because i like his prose a lot and some poems were very touching but overall i didn’t feel very close to his work i always felt like i was watching it from afar and unable, for the most part, to really connect
May 28, 2024
4.5 stars
This has taken me months to get through and I feel like I will be returning to it for years to come. I adore the connection to nature and particularly to show that permeates these Frost’s work and feel like I have only cleaned the surface of what these have to offer.
This has taken me months to get through and I feel like I will be returning to it for years to come. I adore the connection to nature and particularly to show that permeates these Frost’s work and feel like I have only cleaned the surface of what these have to offer.
April 19, 2024
him saying writing free verse is liking playing tennis without the net then writing six page long blank verse poems that are insufferable to read is my roman empire
May 1, 2024
I don't enjoy poetry, I would not have chosen any poetry books of my own free will. Having said that, I still enjoyed this, I love most of Robert Frost's works. They are easy to understand and easy to empathise with. Most poetry I have read feels too high brow for my taste. Robert Frost just has a way with words that, in my opinion, no other poet can replicate. I would go as far as to say that Robert Frost's works are the only poetry I actively enjoy. This collection has a reasonable amount of poems and the poetry contained is quite exceptional (for the first portion of the book.) My most major complaint; the further in the book you get the more bland the poetry gets. To the point it becomes tedious and difficult to read. For Robert Frost that still means better than 100% of poetry, but the latter 1/2 to maybe 1/3 became stale. nonetheless 5/5 would recommend (but that's my bias towards Robert Frost speaking), objectively this is probably about a 3.5. If you liked this book read more Robert Frost, all of it in fact.
January 13, 2025
I think this is the collection I read - and the range of poems in it could not be more varied! However, the theme is similar in all pieces and as with most of his works, nature is always referenced.
My rating is based on the shorter, more lyrical poems in this collection.
Stand out pieces (I may have missed some):
- The Road Not Taken (Of course - this and Stopping by Woods... are my favourites)
- The Sound of Trees
- Hyla Brook
- My November Guest
- Revelation
- Flower Gathering
- Reluctance
- Into My Own
My rating is based on the shorter, more lyrical poems in this collection.
Stand out pieces (I may have missed some):
- The Road Not Taken (Of course - this and Stopping by Woods... are my favourites)
- The Sound of Trees
- Hyla Brook
- My November Guest
- Revelation
- Flower Gathering
- Reluctance
- Into My Own
September 22, 2023
Is it weird to think that one of the most popular American poets of the 20th century could be under-appreciated? Everyone studies a few of his poems in English, then forgets about them, but there are some deep and poignant poems that I never heard of until I read this collection.
September 27, 2024
Had to do this for class, but it was fun!
May 1, 2023
i find this selection of poetry hit and miss, i do have some favourites though.
February 4, 2021
“A Boy’s Will” and “New Hampshire” were my favorite collections. “North of Boston” was my least favorite. I found I generally didn’t like his long narrative poems - perhaps I didn’t fully understand them. What I liked most about Frost’s poems was the deep questions he asked but didn’t answer. What do we owe to our fellow humans? What matters most in life? Why don’t we always focus on those things? These are just a couple examples of the kinds of questions he asks.
I divided the poems up into the collections they appeared in. Each collection has two numbers. The second is the number of poems in the collection, the first is the number of poems I really liked. For each of these poems I included a little note explaining the poem and my brief thoughts about why I liked it. This isn’t to say the poems that don’t appear here aren’t good, it just means I didn’t appreciate them this time around.
A Boy's Will, 5/30
- My November Guest: About embracing sorrow and learning to love it as a beautiful emotion. This doesn't mean being masochists. It means appreciating life, happiness and sorrow both.
- Into My Own: Really great final couplet.
- Love and a Question: Beautifully explores the question, "What is love in the truest sense?" A newlywed man must choose between letting a stranger stay with him and his bride in their house - thus ruining their wedding night - or turning the stranger away. Probably the best Frost poem.
- In Hardwood Groves: Nice poem about death and rebirth
- Reluctance: Really beautiful final stanza
North of Boston, 2/16
- Good Hours: Nice poem that makes me want to go walking.
- Mending Wall: A poem about how walls affect friends, neighbors, and communities.
Mountain Interval, 3/30
- The Road Not Taken: Classic poem about making choices and living with them. Everyone knows this one.
- A Time to Talk: Really good reminder to make time to connect with people, even if your in the middle of something
- Out, Out: Classic poem about he fragility of life.
New Hampshire, 8/44
- Star Splitter: It is longer than it is good but I like the idea that to be social we must be forgiving. I also like the bond the narrator made with Brad through the telescope even though he thought it was dumb at first. If this poem had come after any of the other poms on this list, idk if it would have been included but it's nice.
- Wild Grapes: Cute story about a girl refusing to let go of a branch. Could be used as a good object lesson someday. The poem itself is just okay though.
- Fire and Ice: Classic poem about how destructive our emotions can be if left unchecked.
- In a Disused Graveyard: I just love a good graveyard poem. Cemeteries are my favorite places to read and think. Frost really captures that here.
- Nothing Gold Can Stay: Classic poem about youth and enjoying the moment.
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: Classic peaceful poem.
- Not to Keep: Moving poem about a husband come back from war, but only for a week.
- Misgiving: Nice poem about leaves on the wind. The best is the final stanza.
West Running Brook, 4/42
- Acceptance: Beautiful poem about not being too preoccupied about the future or what you don't know.
- Lodged: Inspiring poem about trials.
- A Minor Bird: Poem about not silencing others. The bird is a metaphor for people around us and the song is them trying to live beautifully.
- What Fifty Said: A poem about always learning.
A Further Range, 4/51
- Two Tramps in Mud Time: The desire to unite love and need, pleasure and work, avocation and vocation.
- Departmental: Fun, funny poem about ants doing their jobs and not worrying about anything else. Can easily be applied to people as well.
- Leaves Compared with Flowers: Really great poem. I could make a sacrament talk out of the first stanza. The final two stanzas touch me because I love looking at the leaves of trees but no one else seems to notice them. In that moment I felt Frost and I were kindred spirits.
- To a Thinker: Good advice to someone who tends to overthink things. Trust your gut.
I divided the poems up into the collections they appeared in. Each collection has two numbers. The second is the number of poems in the collection, the first is the number of poems I really liked. For each of these poems I included a little note explaining the poem and my brief thoughts about why I liked it. This isn’t to say the poems that don’t appear here aren’t good, it just means I didn’t appreciate them this time around.
A Boy's Will, 5/30
- My November Guest: About embracing sorrow and learning to love it as a beautiful emotion. This doesn't mean being masochists. It means appreciating life, happiness and sorrow both.
- Into My Own: Really great final couplet.
- Love and a Question: Beautifully explores the question, "What is love in the truest sense?" A newlywed man must choose between letting a stranger stay with him and his bride in their house - thus ruining their wedding night - or turning the stranger away. Probably the best Frost poem.
- In Hardwood Groves: Nice poem about death and rebirth
- Reluctance: Really beautiful final stanza
North of Boston, 2/16
- Good Hours: Nice poem that makes me want to go walking.
- Mending Wall: A poem about how walls affect friends, neighbors, and communities.
Mountain Interval, 3/30
- The Road Not Taken: Classic poem about making choices and living with them. Everyone knows this one.
- A Time to Talk: Really good reminder to make time to connect with people, even if your in the middle of something
- Out, Out: Classic poem about he fragility of life.
New Hampshire, 8/44
- Star Splitter: It is longer than it is good but I like the idea that to be social we must be forgiving. I also like the bond the narrator made with Brad through the telescope even though he thought it was dumb at first. If this poem had come after any of the other poms on this list, idk if it would have been included but it's nice.
- Wild Grapes: Cute story about a girl refusing to let go of a branch. Could be used as a good object lesson someday. The poem itself is just okay though.
- Fire and Ice: Classic poem about how destructive our emotions can be if left unchecked.
- In a Disused Graveyard: I just love a good graveyard poem. Cemeteries are my favorite places to read and think. Frost really captures that here.
- Nothing Gold Can Stay: Classic poem about youth and enjoying the moment.
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: Classic peaceful poem.
- Not to Keep: Moving poem about a husband come back from war, but only for a week.
- Misgiving: Nice poem about leaves on the wind. The best is the final stanza.
West Running Brook, 4/42
- Acceptance: Beautiful poem about not being too preoccupied about the future or what you don't know.
- Lodged: Inspiring poem about trials.
- A Minor Bird: Poem about not silencing others. The bird is a metaphor for people around us and the song is them trying to live beautifully.
- What Fifty Said: A poem about always learning.
A Further Range, 4/51
- Two Tramps in Mud Time: The desire to unite love and need, pleasure and work, avocation and vocation.
- Departmental: Fun, funny poem about ants doing their jobs and not worrying about anything else. Can easily be applied to people as well.
- Leaves Compared with Flowers: Really great poem. I could make a sacrament talk out of the first stanza. The final two stanzas touch me because I love looking at the leaves of trees but no one else seems to notice them. In that moment I felt Frost and I were kindred spirits.
- To a Thinker: Good advice to someone who tends to overthink things. Trust your gut.
July 19, 2022
I would like a copy of my own to keep and open through the years. I don’t believe I can get the fullness of all these poems by reading through them in a week or two.
I’ve found a new appreciation for poetry after reading about the benefits of memorizing poetry and speaking it aloud. It definitely makes a big difference by reading it aloud and getting a rhythm going. It makes reading in your head much easier after and helps you truly see the beauty in it.
A few days into reading this, I tried my hand at memorizing a poem. I chose Into My Own because I liked the rhythm and imagery. (Not to mention that each of Robert Frosts’ poems end with a spectacular line that I find myself always looking forward to.)
And I don’t know the science or whatever, but I found myself coming back to it over and over in my head. Kind of like a stone to step on in my swirling sea of thoughts.
And there was a particular time that I don’t understand but really threw me off: I woke at 4am one day to help my baby that had started fussing in the next room. Right when I sat up, I started reciting the entire poem in my head, coming out of a dead sleep, out of nowhere. Why? Absolutely no clue. Did I like it? Absolutely no clue. But it threw me off enough to remember this event and wonder about it after.
I like these poems. I like how the ones that rhyme, are fit for my accent haha.. There’s nothing that ruins my flow and enjoyment of a poem more than the agains (a-GANE) and beens (bean). Lol.. no idea if that’s just me but— yeah, I’m picky…
I will be seeking out more great poets such as this one.
Oh yes and I must copy down this list I have of my particular favorites from the book (in my version, found in this order):
Into My Own
Love and a Question
Revelation
The Road Not Taken
The Exposed Nest
The Telephone
Birches
Dust of Snow
To E.T.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Not to Keep
Fireflies in the Garden
A Minor Bird
Lodged
The Investment
I’ve found a new appreciation for poetry after reading about the benefits of memorizing poetry and speaking it aloud. It definitely makes a big difference by reading it aloud and getting a rhythm going. It makes reading in your head much easier after and helps you truly see the beauty in it.
A few days into reading this, I tried my hand at memorizing a poem. I chose Into My Own because I liked the rhythm and imagery. (Not to mention that each of Robert Frosts’ poems end with a spectacular line that I find myself always looking forward to.)
And I don’t know the science or whatever, but I found myself coming back to it over and over in my head. Kind of like a stone to step on in my swirling sea of thoughts.
And there was a particular time that I don’t understand but really threw me off: I woke at 4am one day to help my baby that had started fussing in the next room. Right when I sat up, I started reciting the entire poem in my head, coming out of a dead sleep, out of nowhere. Why? Absolutely no clue. Did I like it? Absolutely no clue. But it threw me off enough to remember this event and wonder about it after.
I like these poems. I like how the ones that rhyme, are fit for my accent haha.. There’s nothing that ruins my flow and enjoyment of a poem more than the agains (a-GANE) and beens (bean). Lol.. no idea if that’s just me but— yeah, I’m picky…
I will be seeking out more great poets such as this one.
Oh yes and I must copy down this list I have of my particular favorites from the book (in my version, found in this order):
Into My Own
Love and a Question
Revelation
The Road Not Taken
The Exposed Nest
The Telephone
Birches
Dust of Snow
To E.T.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Not to Keep
Fireflies in the Garden
A Minor Bird
Lodged
The Investment
January 25, 2020
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His poems calm my soul whenever my spirit feels frail. #TheRoadNotTaken always illuminates my choices. The first miles to go before I sleep carry me forward, but those later miles creep in carrying with them a sense of finality. Together they both give me softer perspectives on the woods I have crossed and will cross. He taught the wind its aim was song and helped a little girl find her life in her mother’s death.
#RobertFrost is the poet I turn to for peace. He is often contemplative and placid, straight forward and complex. Speaking of #StoppingByWoodsOnASnowyEvening, Frost said it is a one-page poem that should be followed by forty pages of foot notes. The simplicity of the poems is what makes it beautiful and approachable. I spend hours reflecting on his words and happy that I have not come to any conclusion. And that has made all the difference.
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His poems calm my soul whenever my spirit feels frail. #TheRoadNotTaken always illuminates my choices. The first miles to go before I sleep carry me forward, but those later miles creep in carrying with them a sense of finality. Together they both give me softer perspectives on the woods I have crossed and will cross. He taught the wind its aim was song and helped a little girl find her life in her mother’s death.
#RobertFrost is the poet I turn to for peace. He is often contemplative and placid, straight forward and complex. Speaking of #StoppingByWoodsOnASnowyEvening, Frost said it is a one-page poem that should be followed by forty pages of foot notes. The simplicity of the poems is what makes it beautiful and approachable. I spend hours reflecting on his words and happy that I have not come to any conclusion. And that has made all the difference.
This edition is by @vintagebooks
#vintagebooks
More North American books here #onebookNorthAmerica
More American books here #onebookUSA
#AmericanLiterature #AmericanAuthors #AmericanPoetry #NewEngland #NewEnglandPoets #UnitedStates #Bookstagram #readtheworld #reading #poemese #poetry #poemse #poesia
January 30, 2019
I struggled to get through this whole thing. I figured that since I liked some of his better known poems, Robert Frost was a great place to start reading poetry. It took me nine months to read this because everytime I thought about it I didn’t want to read anything. Having said that, I can see why he’s considered a great poet. I won’t pretend that I understood all of the poems, but I tried. Some of them, I really liked while others literally put me to sleep. The reason I was able to push through and finish this is because I started to think about it in terms of the world events happening around Frost. It was far more interesting to read the poems through the lens of them as reactions. Frost’s poems span World War I, the Great Depression, World War II and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the start of the Cold War. He’s incredibly pro-nature, to the point of being anti-industry and even anti-science at points. However, he also writes a lot about the stars and astronomy. It was fascinating to see the dichotomies and his attempts to understand the world as a whole. Overall, I struggled but I did find bits and pieces of it all that I liked.
April 12, 2022
You can not go wrong with a classic writer such as Robert Frost. His poetry is great as it is well written and most content is timeless.
What made me give this collection only three stars is because some of the poetry, I would personally class as prose (but don't take my word for it as I have not studied literature in uni). Additionally, for this specific edition, there was a section without poetry, not sure if it was intentional. In the list of contents the section is supposedly connected to the next, without any poetry in between, so it might be intentional. However, the section titles were on separate pages, which I found quite confusing.
All in all, this book is beautiful and I still recommend it as the contents are great.
What made me give this collection only three stars is because some of the poetry, I would personally class as prose (but don't take my word for it as I have not studied literature in uni). Additionally, for this specific edition, there was a section without poetry, not sure if it was intentional. In the list of contents the section is supposedly connected to the next, without any poetry in between, so it might be intentional. However, the section titles were on separate pages, which I found quite confusing.
All in all, this book is beautiful and I still recommend it as the contents are great.
September 4, 2017
Overall a good and enjoyable read. Of course everybody knows the often quoted "The Road Not Taken" as one of his masterpieces. But other than that, there was a number of beautiful poems that are going up on my inspirational wall, such as e.g. "Fire and Ice".
I must say that Robert Frost has a great number of poems on nature or that are exceedingly long that I did not enjoy whatsoever as they are not quite my style. Nonetheless I sometimes found specific lines out of these still remarkable or though-provoking. This book has strengthened my decision to read and write more poetry.
I must say that Robert Frost has a great number of poems on nature or that are exceedingly long that I did not enjoy whatsoever as they are not quite my style. Nonetheless I sometimes found specific lines out of these still remarkable or though-provoking. This book has strengthened my decision to read and write more poetry.
January 12, 2022
This was an excellent collection of all of Robert Frost’s work. Like every collection of poetry, it is impossible to like every poem but I did enjoy a large majority of these and it was 521 pages long. I have finally learnt not to try and read poetry the same way in which I read a book which is normally only a couple of days. With this I would generally read 30 pages and put it aside.
If you like some of Robert Frost’s other work and like nature poetry that I would recommend trying this.
If you like some of Robert Frost’s other work and like nature poetry that I would recommend trying this.
February 18, 2019
While generally not to my taste, every so often there’s something profound, dark and still that makes me shudder. There’s mystery here. Those are the five star poems that make this work valuable. Each will find their own. But his feeling for the dark, the cold, and the fear of trees .... definitely lingers.
September 3, 2011
My favorite poems would be: 'Good Hours', 'The Road Not Taken', A Patch of Old Snow', 'Bond and Free', 'The Last Word of a Bluebird', Fire and Ice (my favorite of all)', 'Dust of Snow', 'Nothing Gold can Stay' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'.
October 15, 2017
I bought this hardcover edition brand new. It has most of his famous poems by collections. I have enjoyed reading this, very beautifully written and poignant. Have many favorites in this collection and would highly recommend this edition. Loved it!!
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