Ghost House
By:Robert Frost
Presented by: Kendall Cason

I dwell in a lonely house i know
That vanished many a summer ago,
And left no trace but cellar walls,
And a cellar in which the daylight falls
And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow.

O'er ruined fences the grape-vines shield
The woods come back to the mowing field;
The orchard tree has grown one corpse
Of new wood and old where the woodpecker chops;
The footpath down to the well is healed.

I dwell with a strangely aching heart
In that vanished abode there far apart
On that disused and forgotten road
That has no dust-bath now for the toad
Night comes; the black bats tremble and dart;

The whippoorwill is coming to shout
And hush and cluck and flutter about:
I hear him begin far enough away
Full many a time to say his say
Before he arrives to say it out.

It is under the small, dim summer star.
I know not who these mute folk are
Who share the unlit place with me---
Those stones out under the low-limed tree
Doubtless bear names that the mosses mar.

They are tireless folk, but slow and sad----
Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad,----
With none among them that ever sings,
And yet, in view of how many things,
As sweet companions as might be had.

Robert Frost

• Was born March 26, 1874 in San Francisco Californiaand died in 1963
• He married Elinor Miriam White in 1895
• He lived and taught poetry for many years in Vermont and Massachusetts

Awards Won By Robert Frost

• Robert Frost at least won 6 awards on poetry
• The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• United States Poetry Laureate
• Congressional Gold Medal
• Bollingen Prize
• Robert Frost Medal
• American Academy of Arts and etters Gold Medal for Poetry

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• Robert's poems were mostly about life and nature!
• His poems use nature to reflect on his life

Bibliography

• Wikipidia
• poets.org
• poetryfoundation.org
• answers.yahoo.co