Poet
Robert Frost
American poet · 1874–1963
Robert Frost is the poet of New England — of stone walls, birch trees, snowy evenings, and the quiet decisions that shape a life. He won the Pulitzer Prize four times, a record no poet has matched, and read at John F. Kennedy's inauguration at the age of 86.
Frost's gift was making profound things sound plain. His poems use ordinary speech and traditional meter, which made him hugely popular with general readers, but underneath the folksy surface his work is often dark, ambiguous, and sharp-edged.
His early collections (through 1923) are now in the public domain, including the poems most people know by heart.
7 poems by Robert Frost
Full text, free to read — all in the public domain.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost · 1923
16 lines · lyric
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost · 1916
20 lines · lyric
- Acquainted with the NightI have been one acquainted with the night.…14 lines
- Dust of SnowThe way a crow…8 lines
- Fire and IceSome say the world will end in fire,…9 lines
- Nothing Gold Can StayNature's first green is gold,…8 lines
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know.…16 lines
- The PastureI'm going out to clean the pasture spring;…8 lines
- The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,…20 lines