Selected Poems

Robert Frost built his poetry from the raw material of New England fields, stone walls, and frost-bitten mornings, but what he crafted from those humble ingredients has become the closest thing American poetry has to a shared heartbeat. These selected poems span his most celebrated collections, from the conversation pieces of "North of Boston" to the youthful ardor of "A Boy's Will," gathering both the famous lyrics and the longer dramatic dialogues that showcase his gift for voices. Here you will find "The Road Not Taken" with its deceptive simplicity about choice, "Mending Wall" with its uneasy peace between neighbors, and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" with its quiet seduction of snow and darkness. Frost wrote in a voice that sounded like a farmer talking, but every line contained a secret about what it means to live, to choose, to be alone in a beautiful world. This is the poetry that Americans return to in times of joy and grief, the verses memorized by schoolchildren and whispered at funerals, the work of a man who made the common earth feel eternal.