Table of Contents
A Boy's Will
Into My Own 2
Ghost House 3
My November Guest 4
Love and a Question 5
A Late Walk 8
Stars 9
Storm Fear 12
Wind and Window Flower 13
To the Thawing Wind 14
A Prayer in Spring 15
Flower-Gathering 16
Rose Pogonias 17
Asking for Roses 18
Waiting 19
In a Vale 20
A Dream Pang 21
In Neglect 22
The Vantage Point 22
Mowing 24
Going for Water 25
Revelation 26
The Trial by Existence 27
In Equal Sacrifice 30
The Tuft of Flowers 32
Spoils of the Dead 34
Pan with Us 36
The Demiurge's Laugh 37
Now Close the Windows 38
A Line-Storm Song 39
October 40
My Butterfly 41
Reluctance 43
North of Boston
The Pasture 46
Mending Wall 47
The Death of the Hired Man 49
The Mountain 55
A Hundred Collars 62
Home Burial 69
The Black Cottage 73
Blueberries 77
A Servant to Servants 81
After Apple-Picking 87
The Code 89
The Generations of Men 93
The Housekeeper 102
The Fear 111
The Self-Seeker 117
The Wood-Pile 127
Good Hours 129
Mountain Interval
The Road Not Taken 132
Christmas Trees 133
An Old Man's Winter Night 135
A Patch of Old Snow 136
In the Home Stretch 137
The Telephone 145
Meeting and Passing 146
Hyla Brook 147
The Oven Bird 148
Bond and Free 149
Birches 150
Pea Brush 152
Putting in the Seed 153
A Time to Talk 154
The Cow in Apple Time 154
An Encounter 156
Range-Finding 157
The Hill Wife 158
The Bonfire 161
A Girl's Garden 165
The Exposed Nest 167
"Out, Out-" 169
Brown's Descent, or The Willy-Nilly Slide 170
The Gum-Gatherer 173
The Line-Gang 175
The Vanishing Red 178
Snow 179
The Sound of the Trees 193
Miscellaneous Early Poems
The Sachem of the Clouds 196
The Traitor 198
The Birds Do Thus 199
Cæsar's Lost Transport Ships 200
Greece 201
God's Garden 202
Warning 203
Plowmen 204
The Lost Faith 205
The Flower-Boat 208
Fragmentary Blue 208
Not to Keep 209
The Axe-Helve 210
The Runaway 214
To E.T. 215
For Once, Then Something 216
Place for a Third 217
The Valley's Singing Day 223
Fire and Ice 223
Good-By and Keep Cold 224
Wild Grapes 227
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things 231
The Lockless Door 232
The Parlor Joke 233
A Star in a Stone-Boat 236
The Onset 238
Misgiving 241
Snow Dust 241
A Brook in the City 242
The Aim was Song 244
Blue-Butterfly Day 246
A Hillside Thaw 246
The Pauper Witch of Grafton 248
Design 251
The Census-Taker 252
The Grindstone 254
The Gold Hesperidee 260
Maple 262
On a Tree Fallen Across the Road 268
Paul's Wife 269
The Return of the Pilgrims 275
The Witch of Coös 276
Evening in a Sugar Orchard 282
Index of First Lines 283
About the Author 286
