First linesRobert Frost

  1. A governor it was proclaimed this time, The Generations of Men
  2. A lantern light from deeper in the barn The Fear
  3. A plow, they say, to plow the snow. Plowmen
  4. All crying “We will go with you, O Wind!” Misgiving
  5. Always the same, when on a fated night The Onset
  6. Before man came to blow it right The Aim Was Song
  7. Builder, in building the little house, The Kitchen Chimney
  8. From where I lingered in a lull in March Evening in a Sugar Orchard
  9. Having a wheel and four legs of its own The Grindstone
  10. He halted in the wind, and⁠—what was that A Boundless Moment
  11. He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Home Burial
  12. Her teacher’s certainty it must be Mabel Maple
  13. I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening The Census-Taker
  14. I didn’t make you know how glad I was A Servant to Servants
  15. I had for my winter evening walk⁠— Good Hours
  16. I let myself in at the kitchen door. The Housekeeper
  17. I met a lady from the South who said New Hampshire
  18. I slumbered with your poems on my breast To E. T.
  19. I staid the night for shelter at a farm Two Witches
  20. I stay; An Empty Threat
  21. I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; The Pasture
  22. I’ve known ere now an interfering branch The Axe-Helve
  23. It is blue-butterfly day here in spring, Blue-Butterfly Day
  24. It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm Our Singing Strength
  25. It was long I lay I Will Sing You One-O
  26. It went many years, The Lockless Door
  27. Lancaster bore him⁠—such a little town, A Hundred Collars
  28. Love and forgetting might have carried them Two Look at Two
  29. Love at the lips was touch To Earthward
  30. Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table The Death of the Hired Man
  31. My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree After Apple-Picking
  32. Nature’s first green is gold, Nothing Gold Can Stay
  33. Never tell me that not one star of all A Star in a Stone-Boat
  34. Nothing to say to all those marriages! Place for a Third
  35. Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears and Some Books
  36. Once when the snow of the year was beginning to fall, The Runaway
  37. Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs For Once, Then, Something
  38. Out walking in the frozen swamp one grey day The Wood-Pile
  39. Some say the world will end in fire, Fire and Ice
  40. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, Mending Wall
  41. Spades take up leaves Gathering Leaves
  42. The farm house lingers, though averse to square A Brook in the City
  43. The house had gone to bring again The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
  44. The living come with grassy tread In a Disused Graveyard
  45. The mountain held the town as in a shadow The Mountain
  46. The sound of the closing outside door was all. The Valley’s Singing Day
  47. The tree the tempest with a crash of wood On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
  48. The way a crow Dust of Snow
  49. The west was getting out of gold, Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter
  50. There were three in the meadow by the brook The Code
  51. They sent him back to her. The letter came Not to Keep
  52. This saying good-bye on the edge of the dark Good-Bye and Keep Cold
  53. To drive Paul out of any lumber camp Paul’s Wife
  54. To think to know the country and not know A Hillside Thaw
  55. We chanced in passing by that afternoon The Black Cottage
  56. What tree may not the fig be gathered from? Wild Grapes
  57. Whose woods these are I think I know. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  58. Why make so much of fragmentary blue Fragmentary Blue
  59. “Willis, I didn’t want you here today: The Self-Seeker
  60. “You know Orion always comes up sideways. The Star-Splitter
  61. “You ought to have seen what I saw on my way Blueberries

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