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Robert Frost Reading His Own Poems

Two Tramps in Mud Time

Desert Places

Neither out Far nor in Deep

Tree at My Window

One Step Backward Taken

James Baldwin Reads - An Other Country - Rufus' Suicide

"Come In" by Robert Frost, recited by Elsa Schisler

The World's engineer Tina Tobey reads "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost

"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost

Robert Frost & The Gift Outright

A reading of Robert Frost's poem "Provide, Provide"

Robert Frost: Provide, Provide

These pools that, though in forests, still reflect 
The total sky almost without defect, 
And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver, 
Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone, 
And yet not out by any brook or river, 
But up by roots to bring dark foliage on.  

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds 
To darken nature and be summer woods -
 Let them think twice before they use their powers 
To blot out and drink up and sweep away 
These flowery waters and these watery flowers 
From snow that melted only yesterday.

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My melody to words by Robert Frost
Just noticed I've left out a line in repeat of the first verse. Many apologies and hope to correct as soon as I can!
Written and recorded in the park yesterday
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Picture from vinhanley.com
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A poem that certainly makes one think, almost annoying in its obscurity - and unkindness to 'trees'! 

It seems, though, its obscurity is part of its message - asking us, warning us, not to lose sight of the stars, the heavens, the spirit as we tend to the business of growing, surviving, thriving here in the world.

Frost uses the contrast of dark and light for earth and heaven. We have come from the white snow and are threatened by the ‘dark foliage’. 

And yet there is this genuine problem: how can we grow like the trees without drinking dry the Spring Pools? And how can we grow and multiply without destroying our environment, as it seems increasingly we are?

Frost has no answer, but his poem is a reminder and a warning for us to ‘think twice’.

To beware that in the process of growing up and growing tall like the trees, we do not lose our connection with the heavens, with nature, with our spirit and soul.

Spring Pools -- Robert Frost (in song)

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening- Robert Frost

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"Once by the Pacific" by Robert Frost

Birches (ft. Robert Frost)

A Considerable Speck by Robert Frost

Robert Frost's Why Wait for Science

Robert Frost - Choose Something Like a Star - translation

Happiness Makes Up In Height For What It Lacks In Length by Robert Frost

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On this segment of HarperAudio!,

American poet Robert Frost reads "West-Running Brook" and "The Death of the Hired Man." These poems, really miniature plays, use a rural New England milieu to express deeper emotional themes of human relationships and the imminence of death. Frost, who was born in 1874 and died in 1963, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943. He once described a poem as "a momentary stay against confusion." These readings were recorded in 1956 at Frost’s home.

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