 | American essays - 1915 - 884 pages
...Not to return. Earth 's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better. I 'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black...back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one... | |
 | Amy Lowell - American poetry - 1917 - 398 pages
...I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch...back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. We know at least that he was once himself "a swinger of birches." We know, too, that much of his play... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - American poetry - 1918 - 356 pages
...Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish, Kicking his way down through the air to the ground. So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so...back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. The Atlantic Monthly Robert Frost 11 Indian-Pipe TN the heart of the forest arising, JL Slim, ghostly,... | |
 | Ethel Maude Colson - Poetry - 1918 - 206 pages
...misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place I don't know where it's likely to go better. I'd like...back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Mainly, it may be said, Frost is a poet of tragedy, the hushed and hidden tragedy of soul rather than... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1919 - 400 pages
...Then he flung outward, feet first, with a swish, Kicking his way down through the air to the ground. So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so...back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. The new volume, in spite of its less imposing appearance, is the work of a rounder and still growing... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1919 - 396 pages
...feet first, with a swish, Kicking his way down through the air to the ground. So was I once myself-a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to...back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. The new volume, in spite of its less imposing appearance, is the work of a rounder and still growing... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1919 - 200 pages
...I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch...back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Robert Frost [1875- ] THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not... | |
 | Jessie Belle Rittenhouse - American poetry - 1919 - 254 pages
...go better. I 'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk But dipped its top and set me down again. That would...back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Robert Frost FIFTY YEARS SPENT FIFTY years spent before I found me, Wind on my mouth and the taste... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1919 - 204 pages
...climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But clipped its top and set me down again. That would be good...back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. Robert Frost [1875- ] THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not... | |
 | Anita P. Forbes - American poetry - 1920 - 328 pages
...fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth '& the right place for love : I don't know where it's...back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. — Robert Frost HIGHMOUNT Hills, you have answered the craving That spurred me to come ; You have... | |
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. 
