"Pea Brush" by Robert Frost

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend June 4, 2017   Pea Brush   Robert Frost

I walked down alone Sunday after church    To the place where John has been cutting trees To see for myself about the birch    He said I could have to bush my peas.   The sun in the new-cut narrow gap    Was hot enough for the first of May, And stifling hot with the odor of sap    From stumps still bleeding their life away.   The frogs that were peeping a thousand shrill    Wherever the ground was low and wet, The minute they heard my step went still    To watch me and see what I came to get.   Birch boughs enough piled everywhere!—    All fresh and sound from the recent axe. Time someone came with cart and pair    And got them off the wild flower's backs.   They might be good for garden things    To curl a little finger round, The same as you seize cat's-cradle strings,    And lift themselves up off the ground.   Small good to anything growing wild,    They were crooking many a trillium That had budded before the boughs were piled    And since it was coming up had to come.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "Pea Brush" was published in Mountain Interval (Henry Holt and Company, 1916).   Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco. His collections of poetry include New Hampshire (Henry Holt and Company, 1923), Steeple Bush (Henry Holt and Company, 1947), and In the Clearing (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962). Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes during his lifetime and served as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress from 1958 to 1959. He died in 1963. Poetry by Frost   The Poetry of Robert Frost (Henry Holt and Co., 1979)  "He Prefers Her Earthly" by Thomas Hardy "The Caterpillar" by Robert Graves "In the Next Yard" by Helen Hoyt Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. If you enjoy Poem-a-Day, please consider making a donation to help make it possible. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038