Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Introduction by Paul Muldoon
• Foreword by C Day Lewis
• The Pasture
• A BOY'S WILL (1913)
• Into My Own
• Ghost Town
• My November Guest
• Love and a Question
• Storm Fear
• To the Thawing Wind
• A Prayer in Spring
• In Neglect
• Mowing
• Revelation
• The Trial by Existence
• The Tuft of Flowers
• The Demiurge's Laugh
• A Line-Storm Song
• October
• Reluctance
• NORTH OF BOSTON (1914)
• Mending Wall
• The Death of the Hired Man
• The Mountain
• A Hundred Collars
• Home Burial
• The Black Cottage
• Blueberries
• A Servants to Servants
• After Apple-Picking
• The Code
• The Fear
• The Wood-Pile
• MOUTAIN INTERVAL (1916)
• The Road Not Taken
• An Old Man's Winter Night
• The Telephone
• Hyla Brook
• The Oven Bird
• Birches
• Putting in the Seed
• A Time to Talk
• The Cow in Apple Time
• Range-Finding
• The Hill Wife
• Loneliness
• The Last Word of a Bluebird
• 'Out, Out..'
• The Gum-Gatherer
• The Line-Gang
• Snow
• The Sound of Trees
• NEW HAMPSHIRE (1923)
• New Hampshire
• A Star in a Stoneboat
• The Star-Splitter
• The Ax-Helve
• The Grindstone
• Paul's Wife
• The Witch of Coos
• An Empty Threat
• I Will Sing You One-O
• Fragmentary Blue
• Fire and ICe
• Dust of Snow
• To E.T.
• Nothing Gold Can Stay
• The Runaway
• The Aim Was Song
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• For Once, Then, Something
• The Onset
• To Earthward
• Good-by and Keep Cold
• Two Look at Two
• Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter
• Misgiving
• On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
• The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
• WEST-RUNNING BROOI (1928)
• Spring Pools
• Fireflies in the Garden
• On Going Unnoticed
• A Passing Glimpse
• A Peck of Gold
• Once by the Pacific
• Lodged
• A Minor Bird
• Bereft
• Tree at My Window
• The Peaceful Shepherd
• A Winter Eden
• The Flood
• Acquainted with the Night
• A Lovely Shall be Choosers
• West-running Brook
• Sand Dunes
• A Soldier
• Immigrants
• Hannibal
• The Investment
• The Birthplace
• Sitting by a Buh in Broad Sunlight
• Riders
• On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations
• The Bear
• The Egg and the Machine
• A FURTHER RANGE (1936)
• A Lone Striker
• Two Tramps in Mud Time
• The White-Tailed Hornet
• A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury
• A Drumlin Woodchuck
• In Time of Cloudburst
• Departmental
• On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind
• The Figure in the Doorway
• At Woodward's Gardens
• A Record Stride
• Desert Places
• Leaves Compared with Flowers
• A Leaf-treader
• The Strong are Saying Nothing
• Neither Out Far no in Deep
• Voice Ways
• Design
• On a Bird Singing in its sleep
• There are Roughly Zones
• A Trial Run
• Not Quite Social
• Provide, Provide
• Ten Mills
• I. Precaution
• II. The Span of Life
• III. The Wright's Biplane
• IV. Evil Tendencies Cancel
• V. Pertinax
• VI. Waspish
• VII. One Guess
• VIII. The Hardship of Accounting
• IX. Not all There
• X. In Dives' Dive
• The Vindictives
• The Bearer of Evil Tidings
• Iris by Night
• Build Soil
• A Missive Missile
• A WITNESS TREE (1942)
• The Silken Tent
• All Relevation
• Happiness Makes up in Height for What It Lacks in Length
• Come In
• I Could Give All to Time
• Carpe Diem
• The Most of It
• Never Again Would Birds' Song by the Same
• The Subverted Flower
• Willful Homing
• The Gift Outright
• Triple Bronze
• Our Hold on the Planet
• The Lesson for Today
• A Considerable Speck
• The Lost Follower
• A Loose Mountain
• It is Almont the Year Two Thousand
• Boeotian
• The Secret Sits
• Assurance
• An Answer
• A Serious Step Lightly Taken
• STEEPLE BUSH (1947)
• A Young Birch
• Something for Hope
• One Step Backward Taken
• Directive
• To an Ancient
• Nocturnes
• The Night Light
• Bravado
• On Making Certain Anything Has Happened
• A Mood Apart
• A Steeple on the House
• The Courage to be New
• Iota Subscript
• The Middleness of the Road
• On being Idolized
• It Bids Pretty Fair
• Beyond Words
• A Case for Jefferson
• Haec Fabula Docet
• Etherealizing
• Why Wait for Science
• An Importer
• The Planners
• No Holy Wars for Them
• The Broken Drought
• To the Right Person
• AN AFTERWORD (1949)
• Take Something like a Star
• Closed for Good
• Index of First Lines