...Materials, ANSI Z3 9.48-1992. For my children Rebecca Linda Catherine Jennifer Jeffrey Frank Rachel I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only...to watch the water clear, I may): I shan't be gone long—You come too. Robert Frost, "The Pasture" Preface: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Democrat...

...little poem by Robert Frost called 'The Pasture': I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I 'II only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I shan 't be gone long. - You come too. I 'm going out to fetch the little calf That 's standing by the...

...opens with an Irish exhortation to Ireland, and it ends with a quintessentially American suggestion: I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only...it with her tongue. I shan't be gone long You come too.18 Chapter Notes Chapter One 1. Kevin Myers, An Irishman's Diary, March 21, 1997, at 13. 2. JM...

..."sentence-sounds," as he calls them, and it was his pleasure to break the sentence across the line: I'm going out to fetch the little calf That's standing...her tongue. I shan't be gone long. — You come too. So natural, and yet so tightly made. Meter and line enforce particular stresses — "I shan't be gone...

...relationships, "The Pasture" also reveals to me that many people see farming only through poetry. The Pasture I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only...her tongue. I shan't be gone long. — You come too. I was puzzled by the first critical readings I came across. After studying literature for several years,...