Robert Frost

 

[  http://www.internal.org/Robert_Frost    Date of birth — March 26, 1874   Date of Death - January 29, 1963  -   My favorite poet.  ]

 

Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, and after his fathers death in 1885, he moved with his family to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he became interested in reading and writing poetry while in high school. Frost attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University, but never received a degree. He was a jack of all trades, and had many different occupations after leaving school, including a teacher, a cobbler, and an editor of the local newspaper, the "Lawrence Sentinel". His first published poem was "My Butterfly: An Elegy" in the New York literary journal "The Independent" in 1894. A year later he married Elinor Miriam White, with whom he shared valedictorian honours with at his Massachusetts High School.

In the following years, he operated a farm in Derry, New Hampshire, and taught at Derry's Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, he sold his farm and moved his family to England, where he could devote himself entirely to his writing. His efforts to establish himself in England were immediately successful, and in 1913 he published "A Boy's Will", followed a year later by "North of Boston". It was in England where he met and was influenced by such poets at Rupert Brooke and Robert Graves, and where he established his life-long friendship with Ezra Pound, who helped to promote and publish his work.

Frost returned to the United states in 1915, and by the 1920's, he was the most celebrated poet in North America, and was granted four Pulitzer Prizes. Robert Frost lived and taught for many years in Massachusetts and Vermont, and died on January 29, 1963 in Boston.

 

 

 

"Out, Out - "

A Brook in the City

A Dream Pang

A Late Walk

A Patch of Old Snow

A Peck of Gold

A Prayer in Spring

A Servant to Servants

A Soldier

A Time to Talk

Acquainted with the Night

After Apple-Picking

An Old Man's Winter Night

Birches

Blue-Butterfly Day

Bond and Free

Canis Major

Come In

Desert Places

Dust of Snow

Fire and Ice

Fireflies in the Garden

Fragmentary Blue

Ghost House

Going for Water

Home Burial

Hyla Brook

In a Disused Graveyard

Into My Own

It Bids Pretty Fair

Love and a Question

Meeting and Passing

Mending Wall

Mowing

My Butterfly

My November Guest

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Now Close the Windows

October

On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations

Once by the Pacific

Range-Finding

Reluctance

Rose Pogonias

Spring Pools

Stars

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Storm Fear

The Armful

The Axe Helve

The Bear

The Code

The Cow in Apple Time

The Death of the Hired Man

The Hill Wife

The Lockless Door

The Mountain

The Need of Being Versed in Country Things

The Oven Bird

The Pasture

The Road Not Taken

The Runaway

The Secret Sits

The Self-Seeker

The Star-Splitter

The Telephone

The Tuft of Flowers

The Vanishing Red

The Witch of Coos

The Wood-Pile

To Earthward

To the Thawing Wind

Tree at my Window

Two Look at Two

Waiting

West Running Brook

Wind and Window Flower