Selected Poems

Robert Browning

• Publisher: Mint Editions
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781513269559, 9781513219875
• eBook ISBN: 9781513274553
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

Selected Poems (1923) is a collection of poems by American poet Robert Frost. Dedicated to Edward Thomas, a friend of Frost's and an important English poet who died toward the end of the First World War, Selected Poems is a wonderful sampling of poems from Frost's early collections, including A Boy's Will and North of Boston. Known for his plainspoken language and dedication to the images and rhythms of rural New England, Robert Frost is one of America's most iconic poets, a voice to whom generations of readers have turned in search of beauty, music, and life.

"Mowing" envisions the poet's work through the prism of rural labor. "There was never a sound beside the wood but one / And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. / What was it it whispered?" The speaker does not know, but continues his task, hypnotized by its rhythm and simple music. In "After Apple-Picking, " as fall gives over to winter, the poet remembers in dreams how the "Magnified apples appear and disappear, / Stem end and blossom end" as he climbs the ladder into the heart of the tree. Both a symbol for life and a metaphor for the poetic act, apple picking leaves the poet "overtired / Of the great harvest [he himself] desired", awaiting sleep as he describes "its coming on, " wondering what, if anything, it will bring. "The Road Not Taken, " perhaps Frost's most famous poem, is a meditation on fate and free will that follows a traveler in an autumn landscape, unsure of which path to take, but certain he cannot stand still.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• Tray
• Incident of the French Camp
• “How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix”
• Hervé Riel
• Pheidippides
• My Star
• Evelyn Hope
• Love among the Ruins
• Misconceptions
• Natural Magic
• Apparitions
• A Wall
• Confessions
• A Woman’s Last Word
• A Pretty Woman
• Youth and Art
• A Tale
• Cavalier Tunes
• Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
• Summum Bonum
• A Face
• Songs from Pippa Passes
• The Lost Leader
• Apparent Failure
• Fears and Scruples
• Instans Tyrannus
• The Patriot
• The Boy and the Angel
• Memorabilia
• Why I am a Liberal
• Prospice
• Epilogue to “Asolando”
• “De Gustibus—”
• The Italian in England
• My Last Duchess
• The Bishop Orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
• The Laboratory
• Home Thoughts, from Abroad
• Up at a Villa—Down in the City
• A Toccata of Galuppi’s
• Abt Vogler
• Rabbi Ben Ezra
• A Grammarian’s Funeral
• Andrea del Sarto
• Caliban upon Setebos; Or, Natural Theology in the Island
• “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
• An Epistle
• Saul
• One Word More
• A Note About the Author
• A Note from the Publisher