Poetry
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The Hill Wife by Robert Frost
LONELINESS (Her Word) One ought not to have to careSo much as you and ICare when the birds come round…
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The Housekeeper by Robert Frost
I LET myself in at the kitchen door.“It’s you,” she said. “I can’t get up. Forgive meNot answering your knock.…
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The Line-Gang by Robert Frost
Here come the line-gang pioneering by.They throw a forest down less cut than broken.They plant dead trees for living, and…
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The Lockless Door by Robert Frost
It went many years,But at last came a knock,And I thought of the doorWith no lock to lock. I blew…
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The Mountain by Robert Frost
The mountain held the town as in a shadowI saw so much before I slept there once:I noticed that I…
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The Oven Bird by 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…
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The Pasture by Robert Frost
I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away(And wait to watch the water…
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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Some say this poem represents the quintessential American expression of free will, but many get its meaning wrong. Frost’s oft-quoted…
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The Rose Family by Robert Frost
The rose is a rose,And was always a rose.But the theory now goesThat the apple’s a rose,And the pear is,…
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The Self-seeker by Robert Frost
“WILLIS, I didn’t want you here to-day:The lawyer’s coming for the company.I’m going to sell my soul, or, rather, feet.Five…
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