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Robert Frost's Poetry, by first line

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  • Departmental
    An ant on the tablecloth
    Ran into a dormant moth
    43 lines, 2 comments
  • The Objection To Being Stepped On
    At the end of the row
    I stepped on the toe
    18 lines, 4 comments
  • The Axe-Helve
    I've known ere now an interfering branch
    Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me.
    103 lines
  • Iota Subscript
    Seek not in me the bit I capital,
    Not yet the little dotted in me seek.
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • The Wood-Pile
    Out walking in the frozen swamp one grey day
    I paused and said, "I will turn back from here.
    40 lines, 3 comments
  • The Pasture
    I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
    I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • To E. T.
    I slumbered with your poems on my breast
    Spread open as I dropped them half-read through
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • My November Guest
    My Sorrow, when she's here with me,
    Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
    20 lines, 3 comments
  • Stars
    How countlessly they congregate
    O'er our tumultuous snow,
    12 lines
  • Revelation
    We make ourselves a place apart
    Behind light words that tease and flout,
    12 lines
  • Come In
    As I came to the edge of the woods,
    Thrush music -- hark!
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • To Earthward
    Love at the lips was touch
    As sweet as I could bear;
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • One Step Backward Taken
    Not only sands and gravels
    Were once more on their travels,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Design
    I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
    On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
    14 lines, 4 comments
  • Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
    The people along the sand
    All turn and look one way.
    16 lines
  • They Were Welcome To Their Belief
    Grief may have thought it was grief.
    Care may have thought it was care.
    16 lines
  • The Span Of Life
    The old dog barks backwards without getting up.
    I can remember when he was a pup.
    2 lines, 2 comments
  • The Rose Family
    The rose is a rose,
    And was always a rose.
    10 lines, 2 comments
  • The Aim Was Song
    Before man to blow to right
    The wind once blew itself untaught,
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • The Silken Tent
    She is as in a field of silken tent
    At midday when the sunny summer breeze
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Desert Places
    Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
    In a field I looked into going past,
    16 lines
  • Spring Pools
    These pools that, though in forests, still reflect
    The total sky almost without defect,
    12 lines
  • A Question
    A voice said, Look me in the stars
    And tell me truly, men of earth,
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • Devotion
    The heart can think of no devotion
    Greater than being shore to ocean -
    4 lines, 3 comments
  • Provide, Provide
    The witch that came (the withered hag)
    To wash the steps with pail and rag,
    21 lines
  • A Cliff Dwelling
    There sandy seems the golden sky
    And golden seems the sandy plain.
    13 lines, 3 comments
  • The Lockless Door
    It went many years,
    But at last came a knock,
    20 lines
  • An Old Man's Winter Night
    All out of doors looked darkly in at him
    Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • A Late Walk
    When I go up through the mowing field,
    The headless aftermath,
    16 lines, 3 comments
  • The Soldier
    He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled,
    That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust,
    14 lines
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