Robert Frost

Poems by Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.

Frequently honored during his lifetime, Frost is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America's rare 'public literary figures, almost an artistic institution'. Frost was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 and in 1961 was named poet laureate of Vermont. Randall Jarrell wrote: 'Robert Frost, along with Stevens and Eliot, seems to me the greatest of the American poets of this century. Frost's virtues are extraordinary. No other living poet has written so well about the actions of ordinary men; his wonderful dramatic monologues or dramatic scenes come out of a knowledge of people that few poets have had, and they are written in a verse that uses, sometimes with absolute mastery, the rhythms of actual speech'. In his 1939 essay 'The Figure a Poem Makes', Frost explains his poetics:

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew...[Poetry] must be a revelation, or a series of revelations, for the poet as for the reader. For it to be that there must have been the greatest freedom of the material to move about in it and to establish relations in it regardless of time and space, previous relation, and everything but affinity.

Poems

  • A Minor Bird, by Robert Frost Read Poem
  • A Boundless Moment Read Poem
  • A Brook In The City Read Poem
  • A Cabin In The Clearing Read Poem
  • A Cliff Dwelling Read Poem
  • A Considerable Speck Read Poem
  • A Dream Pang Read Poem
  • A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey's Ears, and Some Books Read Poem
  • A Girl's Garden Read Poem
  • A Hillside Thaw Read Poem
  • A Late Walk Read Poem
  • A Line-Storm Song Read Poem
  • A Servant To Servants Read Poem
  • A Soldier Read Poem
  • A Star In A Stoneboat Read Poem
  • A Time To Talk Read Poem
  • A Winter Eden Read Poem
  • Acceptance Read Poem
  • Acquainted With The Night Read Poem
  • After Apple Picking Read Poem
  • An Empty Threat Read Poem
  • An Encounter Read Poem
  • An Old Man's Winter Night Read Poem
  • Asking For Roses Read Poem
  • Atmosphere Read Poem
  • Bereft Read Poem
  • Birches Read Poem
  • Blue-Butterfly Day Read Poem
  • Blueberries Read Poem
  • Bond And Free Read Poem
  • Brown's Descent Read Poem
  • But Outer Space Read Poem
  • Canis Major Read Poem
  • Carpe Diem Read Poem
  • Christmas Trees Read Poem
  • Come In Read Poem
  • Departmental Read Poem
  • Desert Places Read Poem
  • Design Read Poem
  • Devotion Read Poem
  • Directive Read Poem
  • Dust in the Eyes Read Poem
  • Dust Of Snow Read Poem
  • Evening In A Sugar Orchard Read Poem
  • Fire And Ice Read Poem
  • Fireflies In The Garden Read Poem
  • Flower-Gathering Read Poem
  • For Once, Then Something Read Poem
  • Fragmentary Blue Read Poem
  • Gathering Leaves Read Poem
  • Ghost House Read Poem
  • God's Garden Read Poem
  • Going For Water Read Poem
  • Good Hours Read Poem
  • Good-Bye, And Keep Cold Read Poem
  • Hannibal Read Poem
  • Home Burial Read Poem
  • Hyla Brook Read Poem
  • I Will Sing You One-O Read Poem
  • Immigrants Read Poem
  • In A Disused Graveyard Read Poem
  • In A Poem Read Poem
  • In A Vale Read Poem
  • In Equal Sacrifice Read Poem
  • In Hardwood Groves Read Poem
  • In Neglect Read Poem
  • In The Home Stretch Read Poem
  • In White Read Poem
  • Into My Own Read Poem
  • Iota Subscript Read Poem
  • Iris By Night Read Poem
  • Leaves Compared With Flowers Read Poem
  • Locked Out Read Poem
  • Lodged Read Poem
  • Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter Read Poem
  • Love And A Question Read Poem
  • Maple Read Poem
  • Meeting And Passing Read Poem
  • Mending Wall Read Poem
  • Misgiving Read Poem
  • Mowing Read Poem
  • My Butterfly Read Poem
  • My November Guest Read Poem
  • Neither Out Far Nor In Deep Read Poem
  • Never Again Would Bird's Song Be The Same Read Poem
  • New Hampshire Read Poem
  • Not To Keep Read Poem
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay Read Poem
  • Now Close The Windows Read Poem
  • October Read Poem
  • On A Tree Fallen Across The Road Read Poem
  • On Looking Up By Chance At The Constellations Read Poem
  • Once By The Pacific Read Poem
  • One Step Backward Taken Read Poem
  • Out, Out-- Read Poem
  • Pan With Us Read Poem
  • Paul's Wife Read Poem
  • Pea Brush Read Poem
  • Place For A Third Read Poem
  • Plowmen Read Poem
  • Provide, Provide Read Poem
  • Putting In The Seed Read Poem
  • Quandary Read Poem
  • Questioning Faces Read Poem
  • Range Finding Read Poem
  • Reluctance Read Poem
  • Revelation Read Poem
  • Riders Read Poem
  • Rose Pogonias Read Poem
  • Sand Dunes Read Poem
  • Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight Read Poem
  • Snow Read Poem
  • Spoils Of The Dead Read Poem
  • Spring Pools Read Poem
  • Stars Read Poem
  • Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Read Poem
  • Storm Fear Read Poem
  • The Aim Was Song Read Poem
  • The Armful Read Poem
  • The Axe-Helve Read Poem
  • The Bear Read Poem
  • The Birthplace Read Poem
  • The Black Cottage Read Poem
  • The Bonfire Read Poem
  • The Code—Heroics Read Poem
  • The Cow In Apple-Time Read Poem
  • The Death Of The Hired Man Read Poem
  • The Demiurge's Laugh Read Poem
  • The Door In The Dark Read Poem
  • The Egg and the Machine Read Poem
  • The Exposed Nest Read Poem
  • The Fear Read Poem
  • The Flood Read Poem
  • The Flower Boat Read Poem
  • The Freedom Of The Moon Read Poem
  • The Generations of Men Read Poem
  • The Gift Outright Read Poem
  • The Grindstone Read Poem
  • The Gum-Gatherer Read Poem
  • The Hill Wife Read Poem
  • The Housekeeper Read Poem
  • The Impulse Read Poem
  • The Investment Read Poem
  • The Kitchen Chimney Read Poem
  • The Last Mowing Read Poem
  • The Last Word of a Blue Bird Read Poem
  • The Line-Gang Read Poem
  • The Lockless Door Read Poem
  • The Master Speed Read Poem
  • The Most Of It Read Poem
  • The Mountain Read Poem
  • The Need Of Being Versed In Country Things Read Poem
  • The Objection To Being Stepped On Read Poem
  • The Oft-Repeated Dream Read Poem
  • The Onset Read Poem
  • The Oven Bird Read Poem
  • The Pasture Read Poem
  • The Pauper Witch of Grafton Read Poem
  • The Peaceful Shepherd Read Poem
  • The Road Not Taken Read Poem
  • The Rose Family Read Poem
  • The Runaway Read Poem
  • The Secret Sits Read Poem
  • The Silken Tent Read Poem
  • The Soldier Read Poem
  • The Sound Of Trees Read Poem
  • The Span Of Life Read Poem
  • The Star Splitter Read Poem
  • The Telephone Read Poem
  • The Times Table Read Poem
  • The Trial By Existence Read Poem
  • The Tuft Of Flowers Read Poem
  • The Vanishing Red Read Poem
  • The Vantage Point Read Poem
  • The Witch Of Coos Read Poem
  • The Wood-Pile Read Poem
  • They Were Welcome To Their Belief Read Poem
  • To E.T. Read Poem
  • To Earthward Read Poem
  • To The Thawing Wind Read Poem
  • Tree At My Window Read Poem
  • Two Look At Two Read Poem
  • Two Tramps In Mud Time Read Poem
  • Unharvested Read Poem
  • Waiting -- Afield At Dusk Read Poem
  • What Fifty Said.. Read Poem
  • Wild Grapes Read Poem
  • Wind And Window Flower Read Poem
  • Acquainted with the Night Read Poem
  • After Apple-Picking Read Poem
  • The Census-Taker Read Poem
  • The Death of the Hired Man Read Poem
  • Dust of Snow Read Poem
  • Fire and Ice Read Poem
  • Fireflies in the Garden Read Poem
  • For Once, Then, Something Read Poem
  • Good-by and Keep Cold Read Poem
  • In a Disused Graveyard Read Poem
  • Love and a Question Read Poem
  • The Need of Being Versed in Country Things Read Poem
  • Not to Keep Read Poem
  • ‘Out, Out—’ Read Poem
  • Range-finding Read Poem
  • The Sound of Trees Read Poem
  • The Star-splitter Read Poem
  • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Read Poem
  • To E. T. Read Poem
  • The Tuft of Flowers Read Poem