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Nameless: Some Thoughts on Frost’s “The Gift Outright,” for July 4th

The Gift Out­right Robert Frost The land was ours before we were the land’s. She was our land more than a hun­dred years Before we were her peo­ple. She was ours In Mass­a­chu­setts, in Vir­ginia, But we were England’s, still colo­nials, Pos­sess­ing what we still were unpos­sessed by, Pos­sessed by what we now no more

My November Guest

Just con­trast­ing moods with Frost. Robert Frost, “My Novem­ber Guest:“ My Sor­row, when she’s here with me, Thinks these dark days of autumn rain Are beau­ti­ful as days can be; She loves the bare, the with­ered tree; She walks the sod­den pas­ture lane. The trees are bare, but not quite with­ered yet. It is damp and

Entry #500: The Search for Truth — On Frost’s “For Once, Then, Something”

For Once, Then, Some­thing Robert Frost Oth­ers taught me with hav­ing knelt at well-curbs Always wrong to the light, so never see­ing Deeper down in the well than where the water Gives me back in a shin­ing sur­face pic­ture Me myself in the sum­mer heaven god­like Look­ing out of a wreath of fern and cloud-puffs.

An Introduction To Emo Rambling: On Frost’s “The Oven Bird”

The Oven Bird Robert Frost There is a singer every­one has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flow­ers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and

Notes On Frost’s “Hyla Brook”

Hyla Brook Robert Frost By June our brook’s run out of song and speed. Sought for much after that, it will be found Either to have gone grop­ing under­ground (And taken with it all the Hyla breed That shouted in the mist a month ago, Like ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow)— Or