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Collected poems, prose & plays
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Publisher
Library of America
Publication Date
c1995
Language
English
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Gillette College Library - Main Collection
811.52 F939F
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Table of Contents
From the Book
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
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
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
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
A star in a stone-boat
The census-taker
The star-splitter
Maple
An ax-helve
The grindstone
Paul's wife
Wild grapes
Place for a third
Two witches
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-bye 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
Spring pools
The freedom of the moon
The rose family
Fireflies in the garden
Atmosphere
Devotion
On goign 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 solider
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 lone striker or, without prejudice to industry
Two tramps in mud time or, a full-time interest
The white-tailed hornet or, the revision of theories
A blue ribbon at Amesbury or, small plans gratefully heard of
A drumlin woodchuck or, be sure to locate
The gold hesperidee or, how to take a loss
In time of cloudburst or, the long view
A roadside stand or, on being put out of our misery
Departmental or, the end of my ant Jerry
The old barn at the bottom of the fogs or, class prejudice afoot
On the heart's beginning to cloud the mind or, from sight to insight
The figure in the doorway or, on being looked at in a train
At Woodward's gardens or, resourcefulness is more than understanding
A record stride or, the United States stated
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
Precaution
The span of life
The Wrights' biplane
Evil tendencies cancel
Pertinax
Waspish
One guess
The hardship of accounting
Not all there
In Dives' dive
The vindictives
the Andes
The bearer of evil tidings
the Himalayas
Iris by night
the Malverns (but these are only hills)
Build soil (as delivered at Columbia Universtiy, May 31, 1932, before the national party conventions of that year)
To a thinker
A missive missle
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 (Boethian)
The lesson for today
Time out
To a moth seen in winter
A considerable speck (microscopic)
The lost follower
November
The rabbit hunter
A loose mountain (telescopic)
It is almost the year two thousand
In a poem
On our sympathy with the under dog
A question
Boeothian
The secret sits
An equalizer
A semi-revolution
Assurance
An answer
Trespass
A naure note
Of the stones of the place
Not of school age
A serious step lightly taken
The literate farmer and the planet Venus
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
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 bits 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
Choose something like a star
Closed for good
From plane to plane
A masque of reason
A masque of mercy
But God's own descent
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 is 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 aspiring high
But outer space
On being chosen poet of Vermont
We vainly wrestle with the blind belief
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling
In winter in the woods alone
La noche triste
Song of the wave
A dream of Julius Caesar
Our camp
Clear and colder
The sachem of the clouds
Parting
Down by the brook...and back
The traitor
Class hymn
Twilight
Summering
The falls
An unhistoric spot
The birds do thus
A summer's garden
Caesar's lost transport ships
Greece
Warning
God's garden
The rubaiyat of Carl Burell
The reason of my perfect ease
Evensong
Despair
A winter's night
Love being all one
Midsummer birds
The mill city
What thing a bird would love
When the speed comes
The later minstrel
The lost faith
Genealogical
The parlor joke
My giving
On the sale of my farm
Pussy-willow time
Pursuit of the word
The rain bath
New grief
Winter winds
In England
Good relief
In equal sacrifice
Asking for roses
Spoils of the dead
Poets are born not made
I am a Mede and a Persian
Flower guidance
Nothing ever so sincere
Dear Stark Young:/winter had beaten summer in fight
On talk of peace at this time
One favored acorn
Forest flowers
The seven arts
For Allan/who wanted to see how I wrote a poem
Fish-leap fall
On the inflation of the currency
A correction
Oh thou that spinnest the wheel
The pans
The cow's in the corn
The Middletown murder
Lowes took the obvious position
Trouble rhyming
Dear Louis:/the telescope has come
A man is as tall as his height
The offer
Let congress see to it
A restoration
A little kingdom
Winter ownership
I only go
Pride of ancestry
Dear Leonard Bacon:/I don't know whether you are in this world of in the old
Unless I call it a pewter tray
To prayer I think I go
Traces
Let's not think
Dear Louis:/I'd rather there ahd been no war at all
Ten thirty a.m.
Were that star shining there by name
A bed in the barn
Pares continuas fututiones
Waste or cod fish eggs
Wanton waste
Sym-ball-ism
Her husband gave her a ring
The prophet
Marx and Engels
For travelers going sidereal
The purpose of the universal plan
The prophets really prophesy as mystics the commentators merely by statistics
A way out
In an art factory
The guardeen
Petra and its surroundings
A monument to after-thought unveiled
The question of a feather
The original and only
The cockerel bying habit
Dalkin's little indulgence: a Christmas story
Schneider and the woodchuck
Schneider and the little bird
The wise men
The Pinkerton Academy english curriculum
To John T. Bartlett, July 4, 1913
To John T. Bartlett, c. November 5, 1913
To Sidney Cox, January 19, 1914
To John T. Bartlett, February 22, 1914
To John Cournos, July 8, 1914
To Sidney Cox, December 1914
To William Braithwaite, March 22, 1914
"The imagining ear"
To Walter Pritchard Eaten, September 18, 1915
To Louis Untermeyer, January 1, 1917
To Regis Michaud
The unmade word, or fetching and far-fetching
Address to the Amherst Alumni Council
Some definitions
To Louis Untermeyer, March 10, 1924
Preface to Memoirs of the notorious Stephen Burroughs
Introduction to The arts anthology: Dartmouth verse
Tribute to Percy MacKaye
The poetry of Amy Lowell
Preface to A way out
To Sidney Cox, c. September 19, 1929
To Kimball Flaccus, October 26, 1930
Education by poetry: a meditative monologue
To Sidney Cox, c. April 19, 1932
On "Birches"
To Wilbert Snow, c. May 16, 1933
To Lesley Frost Francis, 1934
To Books we like
Letter to The Amherst student
Introduction to E. A. Robinson's King Jasper
Introduction to Sarah Cleghorn's Threescore
To Louis Untermeyer, November 25, 1936
What became of New England?
Poverty and poetry
The poet's next of kin in college
To Robert P. T. Coffin, February 24, 1938
The figure a poem makes
Remarks on receiving the gold medal
The doctrine of excursions
Preface to poems in This is my best
Preface to "The death of the hired man"
The constant symbol
"Sermon" at Rockdale Avenue Temple
Speaking of loyalty
A romantic chasm
Preface to poems in The world's best
Poetry and school
On the poems of Hervey Allen
"Reading poems at Tufts"
The hear-say ballad
The prerequisites
To the poets of Japan
On taking poetry
"Caveat poeta"
A perfect day
a day of prowess
Maturity no object
Preface to A swinger of birches, by Sidney Cox
To the poets of Korea
"What worries you most about America today?"
Merrill Moore
The case of the United State of America versus Ezra Pound
On being appointed consultant to the library of congress
The way there
Preface to an expanded North of Boston
Dorothy Canfield
"Books that have meant the most"
Conversations on the craft of poetry
On Emerson
The future of man
The future of man (unpublished version)
Paris review interview, with Richard Poirier
A poet's boyhood
A New England tribute
Ernest Hemingway
On "Choose something like a star"
William Faulkner
On the cold war
On extravagance: a talk
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