 MENDING WALL Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.  Proverbs: A Handbookby Wolfgang Mieder - 2004 - 304 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | 1915 - 680 pages
...whimsical style, as if the author preferred his fancies to every day facts. He says, for instance in Mending Wall, "Something there is that doesn't love...the sun ; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. ****** No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there.... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - American poetry - 1917 - 490 pages
...should. But oh, I have need of the rebel thought, And a wicked urge to the rebel mood! no Robert Frost MENDING WALL Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can... | |
 | Alfred Kreymborg - American poetry - 1920 - 238 pages
...out into them, And it remained there — The hands were two lovers, vainly waiting for their hour. MENDING WALL Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun ; And makes gaps even two can... | |
 | Alfred Kreymborg - American poetry - 1920 - 220 pages
...out into them, And it remained there — The hands were two lovers, vainly waiting for their hour. MENDING WALL Something there is that doesn't love a wall,. That sends the frozen ground-swell unde* it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can... | |
 | Robert Frost - American poetry - 1923 - 168 pages
...to reach. " Men work together," I told him from the heart, " Whether they work together or apart." MENDING WALL SOMETHING there is that doesn't love...pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: 65 I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1923 - 1054 pages
...keeps the ache, [but] keeps the pressure of a ladder round"; or the frost "that does n't love a well, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun — no matter what the thing is that Mr. Frost's eye has seen, he has seen it with his undivided mind... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - American poetry - 1923 - 706 pages
...Hovering over The child she is holding Is Sleep, the white mother, With arms enfolding! Robert Frost MENDING WALL Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can... | |
 | Carl Van Doren - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 262 pages
..."instep arch [that] not only keeps the ache, [but] keeps the pressure of a ladder round"; or the frost "that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell...under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun" — no matter what the thing is that Mr. Frost's eye has seen, he has seen it with his undivided mind... | |
 | Baker Brownell - Cosmology - 1926 - 476 pages
...parallels — and exhibit it in its original movement," is his most general characteristic: Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the...the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. De La Mare comes neat, careful, mystical; Eliot, taut, cranky and perversely sweet; Bynner laying being... | |
 | Louise Dudley - Literature - 1928 - 416 pages
...2. Well-known stanza and verse forms: a. Blank verse: un rhymed iambic pentameter, 5 z a. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the...the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. FROST, Mending Wall b. Heroic couplet: two verses of iambic pentameter rhymed, a (S xa), a a. A little... | |
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