Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season? City Club Bulletin - Page 421914Full view - About this book
| Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer, Marianne Moore - Books - 1913 - 392 pages
...heart is still aching to seek, Bat the feet question ' Whither ? ' " Ah, when to the heart of a man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of...reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season ? " If Mr. Frost's verses show the cast of melancholy, there is at least nothing morbid about it. In... | |
| Robert Frost - American poetry - 1915 - 76 pages
...aching to seek, But the feet question 'Whither?' 62 RELUCTANCE 63 Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of...bow and accept the end — Of a love or a season? . ' Certain of these, .poems are. repri.nted -by courteous permission fiotai<~-TJu .Forttnt,- The.... | |
| Percy Holmes Boynton - Literary Criticism - 1919 - 534 pages
...descended ; I have come by the highway home, And lo, it is ended. < Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of...bow and accept the end Of a love or a season ? This book does not represent the work of Frost as it appears in his later volumes, but it does represent... | |
| Robert Frost - American poetry - 1923 - 164 pages
...aching to seek, But the feet question " Whither? " 142 ,te RELUCTANCE Ah, when to the heart of man ^ Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of...And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season? INTO MY OWN ONE of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,... | |
| Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1925 - 666 pages
...The heart is still aching to seek, But the feet question "Whither?" Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of...And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season? MENDING WALL Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under... | |
| Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1925 - 664 pages
...The heart is still aching to seek, But the feet question "Whither?" Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of...reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season ? MENDING WALL Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under... | |
| Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1925 - 254 pages
..."Reluctance"; and this is the last stanza: "Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than treason [159] To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace...reason. And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season ? " I've just begun what I am going to say next time— a little quarrelsome ! PAUL PlNKVILtE, DEAR... | |
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