One Step Backward Taken | Poem by Robert Frost

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One Step Backward Taken Poem  ………………. by Robert Frost _______________________________________________________________________________________ Not only sands and gravelsWere once more on their travels,But gulping muddy gallonsGreat boulders off their balanceBumped heads together dullyAnd started down the gully. Whole capes caked off in slices. I felt my standpoint shakenIn the universal crisis. But with one step backward takenI saved myself … Read more…

Only a Curl | Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Only a Curl Poem  ………………. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning _______________________________________________________________________________________ I. FRIENDS of faces unknown and a landUnvisited over the sea, Who tell me how lonely you standWith a single gold curl in the handHeld up to be looked at by me, — II. While you ask me to ponder and sayWhat a father and mother … Read more…

On Anothers Sorrow | Poem by William Blake

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On Anothers Sorrow Poem  ………………. by William Blake _______________________________________________________________________________________ Can I see anothers woe,And not be in sorrow too?Can I see anothers grief,And not seek for kind relief. Can I see a falling tear. And not feel my sorrows share,Can a father see his child,Weep, nor be with sorrow fill’d. Can a mother sit and hear. … Read more…

On A Portrait Of Wordsworth | Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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On A Portrait Of Wordsworth Poem  ………………. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning _______________________________________________________________________________________ WORDSWORTH upon Helvellyn ! Let the cloudEbb audibly along the mountain-wind,Then break against the rock, and show behindThe lowland valleys floating up to crowdThe sense with beauty. He with forehead bowedAnd humble-lidded eyes, as one inclinedBefore the sovran thought of his own mind,And very … Read more…

On a Tree Fallen Across the Road | Poem by Robert Frost

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On a Tree Fallen Across the Road Poem  ………………. by Robert Frost _______________________________________________________________________________________ (To hear us talk) The tree the tempest with a crash of woodThrows down in front of us is not barOur passage to our journey’s end for good,But just to ask us who we think we are Insisting always on our own way … Read more…

On Going Unnoticed | Poem by Robert Frost

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On Going Unnoticed Poem  ………………. by Robert Frost _______________________________________________________________________________________ As vain to raise a voice as a sighIn the tumult of free leaves on high. What are you in the shadow of treesEngaged up there with the light and breeze? Less than the coral-root you knowThat is content with the daylight low,And has no leaves at … Read more…

On Looking Up By Chance At The Constellations | Poem by Robert Frost

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On Looking Up By Chance At The Constellations Poem  ………………. by Robert Frost _______________________________________________________________________________________ You’ll wait a long, long time for anything muchTo happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloudAnd the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves. The sun and moon get crossed, but they never touch,Nor strike out fire from each other nor … Read more…

On the desert | Poem by Stephen Crane

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On the desert Poem  ………………. by Stephen Crane _______________________________________________________________________________________ On the desertA silence from the moon’s deepest valley. Fire rays fall athwart the robesOf hooded men, squat and dumb. Before them, a womanMoves to the blowing of shrill whistlesAnd distant thunder of drums,While mystic things, sinuous, dull with terrible colour,Sleepily fondle her bodyOr move at her … Read more…

Our Singing Strength | Poem by Robert Frost

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Our Singing Strength Poem  ………………. by Robert Frost _______________________________________________________________________________________ It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warmThe flakes could find no landing place to form. Hordes spent themselves to make it wet and cold,And still they failed of any lasting hold. They made no white impression on the black. They disappeared as if earth … Read more…

Out Out– | Poem by Robert Frost

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Out Out Poem  ………………. by Robert Frost _______________________________________________________________________________________ The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yardAnd made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it. And from there those that lifted eyes could countFive mountain ranges one behind the otherUnder the sunset far into Vermont. And the saw snarled and … Read more…