sold Signed Stanza in the Hand of Robert Frost

Robert Frost, though born in San Francisco, is associated mainly with rural New England. He won the Pulitzer Prize four times, an amazing achievement for a poet, and authored such memorable poems as Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Fire and Ice, and his often-quoted The Road Not Taken.

Frost spent three years (1912-1915) in England. There he wrote his first two books of poetry, A Boy’s Will and North of Boston, which included many of his most his famous poems, including Mending Wall, The Death of the Hired Man and After Apple-Picking. Of this book, Frost’s friend and fellow poet Edward Thomas wrote, “This is one of the most revolutionary books of modern times, but one of the quietest and least aggressive. It speaks, and it is poetry.” Before his books were even available in The United States, Frost was credited with representing a new voice for American poetry.

Upon his return to America in 1915, he bought a farm in New Hampshire. North of Boston was published in the U.S. in February of that year, just as Frost was returning to the states. Due to the positive response that this book of poems about New England generated, he was instantly catapulted into a lengthy career of teaching, lecturing and writing.

His poem The Pasture first appeared in this book and epitomizes Frost’s love for New England life that first brought his poetry to national attention.

Autograph Poem Stanza Signed on a 3 by 5 inch card, Amherst, inscribed to friend David Hart. “I’m going out to clear the pasture spring. / I’ll only stop to take the leaves away / (And wait to watch the water clear I may). / I shan’t be gone long. You come too. / Robert Frost / For David Hart.” The poem itself is undated, but is accompanied by the envelope in which it was sent, which is postmarked September 28, 1934. The envelope is addressed in Frost’s hand, “Mr. David B. Hart / Pipestone / Minnesota.”