Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
A Note on the Texts xii
List of Abbreviations xvi
Introduction 3
A Boy's Will (1913) 13
Into My Own 16
Ghost House 19
Rose Pogonias 23
Mowing 27
The Trial by Existence 30
The Tuft of Flowers 36
Reluctance 40
North of Boston (1914) 45
The Pasture 47
Mending Wall 49
The Death of the Hired Man 54
The Mountain 64
A Hundred Collars 72
Home Burial 82
The Black Cottage 90
Blueberries 98
A Servant to Servants 104
After Apple-Picking 113
The Code 117
The Generations of Men 124
The Housekeeper 136
The Fear 149
The Self-Seeker 156
The Wood-Pile 168
Good Hours 173
Mountain Interval (1916) 177
The Road Not Taken 179
Christmas Trees 183
An Old Man's Winter Night 187
In the Home Stretch 191
Meeting and Passing 202
Hyla Brook 205
The Oven Bird 208
Birches 211
Putting in the Seed 216
The Cow in Apple Time 219
An Encounter 222
The Bonfire 225
"Out, Out-" 232
The Gum-Gatherer 237
The Vanishing Red 241
The Sound of the Trees 246
New Hampshire (1923) 251
A Star in a Stone-boat 253
Maple 260
The Axe-Helve 270
The Grindstone 277
Paul's Wife 282
Place for a Third 290
Two Witches
I The Witch of Coös 296
II The Pauper Witch of Grafton 305
Fire and Ice 312
To E. T. 315
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 319
For Once, Then, Something 324
The Onset 328
A Hillside Thaw 331
The Need of Being Versed in Country Things 334
Later Poems 339
Acquainted with the Night 340
Two Tramps in Mud Time 343
Desert Places 350
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep 354
Design 357
The Silken Tent 362
The Most of It 365
The Subverted Flower 369
The Gift Outright 374
Directive 378
Bibliography 385
Index 389
