Poem by Robert Lee Frost

Misgiving

All crying, ’We will go with you, O Wind!’
The foliage follow him, leaf and stem;
But a sleep oppresses them as they go,
And they end by bidding them as they go,
And they end by bidding him stay with them.

Since ever they flung abroad in spring
The leaves had promised themselves this flight,
Who now would fain seek sheltering wall,
Or thicket, or hollow place for the night.

And now they answer his summoning blast
With an ever vaguer and vaguer stir,
Or at utmost a little reluctant whirl
That drops them no further than where they were.

I only hope that when I am free
As they are free to go in quest
Of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life
It may not seem better to me to rest.

1. The Gift Outright
2. The Broken Drought
3. A Case for Jefferson
4. Away!
5. The Courage to Be New

Coates Kinney Misgiving ("Oh! can it be that this is all of life")

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