The Pasture by Robert Frost

The Pasture BY ROBERT FROST I’m going out to clean the pasture spring; I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha’n’t be gone long.—You come too. I’m going out to fetch the little calf That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young, It totters […]

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The Round by Stanley Kunitz

The Round by Stanley Kunitz Light splashed this morning on the shell-pink anemones swaying on their tall stems; down blue-spiked veronica light flowed in rivulets over the humps of the honeybees; this morning I saw light kiss the silk of the roses in their second flowering, my late bloomers flushed with their brandy. A curious […]

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A Warm Day by Louise Gluck

A Warm Day by Louise Gluck Today the sun was shining so my neighbor washed her nightdresses in the river— she comes home with everything folded in a basket, beaming, as though her life had just been lengthened a decade. Cleanliness makes her happy— it says you can begin again, the old mistakes needn’t hold […]

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Up Here by David Budbill

Up Here by David Budbill The people up here scattered through these hills, leave one another alone. Their houses are few and far between. There’s almost nothing to do. Cars almost never go by. I cut wood and garden, listen for a poem. And in the evening the house offers books and time for music.

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Thinking About the Past by Donald Justice

Thinking about the Past by Donald Justice Certain moments will never change, nor stop being— My mother’s face all smiles, all wrinkles soon; The rock wall building, built, collapsed then, fallen; Our upright loosening downward slowly out of tune— All fixed into place now, all rhyming with each other. That red-haired girl with wide mouth—Eleanor— […]

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