Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down." I could say " Elves " to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone... Proverbs: A Handbookby Wolfgang Mieder - 2004 - 304 pagesNo preview available - About this book
| Robert Frost - 1915 - 152 pages
...there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down." I could say " Elves " to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself....it so well He says again, " Good fences make good neighbours." THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN MARY sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for... | |
| Robert Frost - 1915 - 146 pages
...there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down." I could say " Elves " to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself....savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me, \ MENDING WALL 13 Not of woods only and the shade of trees, He will not go behind his father's saying,... | |
| Robert Frost - 1915 - 146 pages
...the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me, him, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will...it so well He says again, " Good fences make good neighbours." THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN MARY sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for... | |
| Robert Frost - 1917 - 152 pages
...there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down." I could say " Elves " to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself....it so well He says again, " Good fences make good neighbours." THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN MARY sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Waiting for... | |
| Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1919 - 400 pages
...there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down," I could say " Elves " to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself....it so well He says again, " Good fences make good neighbours." Beneath the sheer whimsy and loveliness of poetic expression, we have here, in two pages,... | |
| Robert Frost - American poetry - 1923 - 168 pages
...there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down." I could say " Elves " to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself....it so well He says again, " Good fences make good neighbours." AN ENCOUNTER ONCE on the kind of day called " weather breeder," Wheri the heat slowly... | |
| Robert Frost - American poetry - 1923 - 164 pages
...there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down." I could say " Elves " to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself....to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He wiltnoLgo jbehind his JatherJs- saying, And he likes having thought otit sa.well He says "again, "Good... | |
| Vera Meynell - English poetry - 1925 - 378 pages
...there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down." I could say " Elves " to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself....it so well He says again, " Good fences make good neighbours." Robert Frost. TO A POET A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE I w H o am dead a thousand years, And wrote... | |
| English literature - 1927 - 506 pages
...condition, though "he is all pine and I am apple orchard." I could say "Elves" to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself....of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours." It is that simile, "like an old-stone savage armed," that reveals the true painter in... | |
| Clement Wood - Poets, American - 1925 - 430 pages
...the hardest lesson that man has to learn, which he is far from guessing yet. The interpretation — He moves in darkness as it seems to me Not of woods only and the shade of trees is immense in its evocation. This is a great new note in English poetry. "The Death of the Hired Man"... | |
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