Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. One of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America's rare "public literary figures, almost an artistic institution." He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. On July 22, 1961, Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont.
“The old dog barks backward without getting up;
I can remember when he was a pup.”
" The Span of Life http://members.tripod.com/~AMDB7/poems/thespanoflife.html" (1936)
1930s
1960s, Dedication (1960)
1960s, Dedication (1960)
Robert Frost: A Backward Look, by Louis Untermeyer (1964), p. 18
1960s
" Provide, Provide http://plagiarist.com/poetry/732/" (1936), st. 6 - 7
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"Away!" (1962), st. 5,6
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"The Hardship of Accounting
1930s
" After Apple Picking http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/after-apple-picking-3/"
1910s
“It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling
To get adapted to my kind of fooling.”
"It Takes All Sorts" (1962)
1960s
" Tree at My Window http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tree-at-my-window-2/" (1928)
1920s
“The world has room to make a bear feel free;
The universe seems cramped to you and me.”
" The Bear http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bear-the/"
1920s
"Haec Fabula Docet" (1947)
1940s
" An Old Man's Winter Night http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-old-man-s-winter-night-2/"
1960s
" The Need of Being Versed in Country Things http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/need-of-being-versed-in-country-things-the/"
1920s
"Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of Great Success
1960s
“I stopped my song and almost heart,
For any eye is an evil eye
That looks in onto a mood apart.”
" A Mood Apart http://www.cod.edu/dept/kiesback/lizkies/frost.htm#mood" (1947)
1940s
"The Master Speed"; the last line is Inscribed beneath his wife's name on the gravestone of Frost and his wife, Elinor
1930s
“Courage is of the heart by derivation,
And great it is. But fear is of the soul.”
A Masque of Mercy (1947)
1940s
That’s what at the end of a war
We always say not who won it,
Or what it was foughten for.
"Lines Written in Dejection on the Eve of Great Success
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We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.
" Education by Poetry http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/edbypo.html", speech delivered at Amherst College and subsequently revised for publication in the Amherst Graduates’ Quarterly (February 1931)
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St. 4
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)
Think of it, talk like that at such a time!
What had how long it takes a birch to rot
To do with what was in the darkened parlor?
You couldn't care! The nearest friends can go
With anyone to death, comes so far short
They might as well not try to go at all.
Home Burial (1915)
As quoted in Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations (1994)
Undated
Source: 1930s, The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
"Into My Own", st. 4 (1913)
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" Come In http://plagiarist.com/poetry/691" (1942), st. 4, 5
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