The Census-Taker, Robert Frost
The Census-Taker Poet: Robert Frost Poem: 3. The Census-Taker Volume: New Hampshire Year: Published/Written in 1923 I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening To a slab-built, black-paper-covered house Of one room and one window and one door, The only dwelling in a waste cut over A hundred square miles round it in the mountains: And that not dwelt…
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The Moose BY ELIZABETH BISHOP
The Moose BY ELIZABETH BISHOP For Grace Bulmer Bowers Grace Bulmer Bowers Elizabeth Bishop's aunt From narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea, home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea twice a day and takes the herrings long rides, where if the river enters or retreats in a wall of brown foam depends on if it meets the ba…
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Ode to a Nightingale BY JOHN KEATS
Ode to a Nightingale BY JOHN KEATS My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light-wing…
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