Classic stories of the author Robert Frost

Classics

Evening in Sugar Orchard

From where I lingered in a lull in March
outside the sugar-house one night for choice,
I called the fireman with a careful voice
And bade him leave the pan and stoke the arch:
‘O fireman, give ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 20th Century 1 min

The Telephone

Robert Frost

“When I was just as far as I could walk
From here to-day,
There was an hour
All still
When leaning with my head against a flower
I heard you talk.
Don’t say I didn’t, for I heard you say—
You ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 20th Century 1 min

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 ... [+]

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19th Century 20th Century 2 min

Birches

Robert Frost

When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.
Ice-storms do ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 20th Century 1 min

Mending Wall

Robert Frost

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 20th Century 3 min

Home Burial

Robert Frost

He saw her from the bottom of the stairs
Before she saw him. She was starting down,
Looking back over her shoulder at some fear.
She took a doubtful step and then undid it
To raise herself and ... [+]

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A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Robert Frost

Evening in Sugar Orchard

The Telephone

The Gift Outright

Birches

Mending Wall

Home Burial