 ONE of my wishes is that those dark trees. So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should...  Bay State Monthly - Page 3221909Full view - About this book
 | Robert Frost - 1915 - 76 pages
...BUTTERFLY 59 There are things that can never be the same. RELUCTANCE . ....... 62 A BOY'S WILL INTO MY OWN ONE of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old...stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land,... | |
 | Robert Frost - 1923 - 164 pages
...things, To yield with a grace to reason, 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...stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land,... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - 1924 - 728 pages
...and tell us where they are." And characteristic, too, is the very first poem in the book, beginning: "One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old...gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom." and picturing the poet as stealing away into their vastness, "fearless of ever finding open land."... | |
 | Llewellyn Jones - 1925 - 264 pages
...and tell us where they are. And characteristic, too, is the very first poem in the book, beginning: One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old...of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. and picturing the poet as stealing away into their vastness, "fearless of ever finding open land."... | |
 | 1948 - 420 pages
...subject and uses the same image of the dark wood with its lethal beauty. It is called "Into My Own." One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old...'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away until the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal... | |
 | Robert Frost - 1979 - 642 pages
...when she licks it with her tongue. I shan't be gone long. — You come too. A Boy's Will INTO MY OWN One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old...stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day 5 Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open... | |
 | Judith Oster - 1994 - 364 pages
...deeper he runs into the woods, the deeper he goes into the self, and that this is what he most fears." One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old...stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness 1 should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land.... | |
 | Robert Frost - 1998 - 324 pages
...Frost later included in New Hampshire follow their first printings. A BOY'S WILL1 TO EMF INTO MY OWN One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old...mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom.2 5 I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless... | |
 | Robert Faggen - 2001 - 308 pages
...begins with a couplet that employs what many consider one of the tritest of rhymes in our language. One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze . . . ("Into My Own," lines 1-2) However, few of us feel that the rhyme here is feeble. Rather, we... | |
 | Robert Frost - 2001 - 324 pages
...God above To sanctify to what far ends He will, But which it only needs that we fulfil. Into My Own One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old...stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land,... | |
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