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Poem by Robert Lee Frost


The Peaceful Shepherd


If heaven were to do again,
And on the pasture bars,
I leaned to line the figures in
Between the dotted starts,

I should be tempted to forget,
I fear, the Crown of Rule,
The Scales of Trade, the Cross of Faith,
As hardly worth renewal.

For these have governed in our lives,
And see how men have warred.
The Cross, the Crown, the Scales may all
As well have been the Sword.



Robert Lee Frost


Robert Lee Frost's other poems:
  1. The Housekeeper
  2. On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
  3. Bond and Free
  4. The Sound of the Trees
  5. On Looking up by Chance at the Constellations


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