Robert Frost Poem Discovery
I just saw this on NPR and thought I should share it. I am a big Robert Frost fan. It is always cool when “hidden” treasures like this are found. You can find the first two stanzas in the NPR article. Hopefully the rest will be released soon. It is very fitting that the poem is about war with everything that is going on in the world today. He wrote his about WWI but I am sure it has relation all the same.
Robert Frost Poem Discovered Tucked Away in Book
Bookmarking:
October 7th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
The first is what I’ve been able to piece together from various reports. I worite about it at http://bicycle-diaries.blogspot.com/2006/10/war-thoughts-at-home.html
And the second I discovered on MySpace of all places.
War Thoughts at Home
Robert Frost
[35 lines, 7 stanzas, each 5 lines]
1.
The flurry of bird war [?]
….[?]
….[?]
….[?]
….[?]
2.
It is late in an afternoon
More grey with snow to fall
Than white with fallen snow
When it is blue jay and crow
Or no bird at all.
3. [or 1?]
On the backside of the house
Where it wears no paint to the weather
And so shows most its age,
Suddenly blue jays rage
And flash in blue feather.
4.
….[?]
….[?]
….[?]
….[?]
….[?]
5.
And one says to the rest
“We must just watch our chance
And escape one by one-
Though the fight is no more done
Than the war is in France.”
6.
Than the war is in France!
She thinks of a winter camp
Where soldiers for France are made.
She draws down the window shade
And it glows with an early lamp.
7.
…..[?]
The uneven sheds stretch back
Shed behind shed in train
Like cars that have long lain
Dead on a side track.
War Thoughts at Home
Robert Frost
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1.
On the back side of the house
Where it wears no paint to the weather
And so shows most its age,
Suddenly blue jays rage
And flash in blue feather.
2.
It is late in an afternoon
More grey with snow to fall
Than white with fallen snow
When it is blue jay and crow
Or no bird at all.
3.
So someone heeds from within
This flurry of bird war,
And rising from her chair
A little bent over with care
Not to scatter on the floor
4.
The sewing in her lap
Comes to the window to see.
At sight of her dim face
The birds all cease for a space
And cling close in a tree.
5.
And one says to the rest
“We must just watch our chance
And escape one by one—
Though the fight is no more done
Than the war is in France.”
6.
Than the war is in France!
She thinks of a winter camp
Where soldiers for France are made.
She draws down the window shade
And it glows with an early lamp.
7.
On that old side of the house
The uneven sheds stretch back
Shed behind shed in train
Like cars that long have lain
Dead on a side track.
January 1918