Index:Frost - A Boy's Will, 1915.djvu

Title	A Boy's Will
Author	Robert Frost
Year	1915
Publisher	Henry Holt
Location	New York
Source	djvu
Progress	Done—All pages of the work proper are validated
Transclusion	Fully transcluded
Validated in	May 2010

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CONTENTS

PART I

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Into My Own

11

The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having forsworn the world.

Ghost House

12

He is happy in society of his choosing.

My November Guest

14

He is in love with being misunderstood.

Love and a Question

15

He is in doubt whether to admit real trouble to a place beside the hearth with love.

A Late Walk

17

He courts the autumnal mood.

Stars

18

There is no oversight of human affairs.

Storm Fear

19

He is afraid of his own isolation.

Wind and Window Flower

20

Out of the winter things he fashions a story of modern love.

To the Thawing Wind

22

He calls on change through the violence of the elements.

A Prayer in Spring

23

He discovers that the greatness of love lies not in forward-looking thoughts;

Flower-Gathering

24

nor yet in any spur it may be to ambition.

Rose Pogonias

25

He is no dissenter from the ritualism of nature;

Asking for Roses

27

nor from the ritualism of youth which is make-believe.

Waiting—Afield at Dusk

29

He arrives at the turn of the year.

In a Vale

31

Out of old longings he fashions a story.

A Dream Pang

33

He is shown by a dream how really well it is with him.

In Neglect

34

He is scornful of folk his scorn cannot reach.

The Vantage Point

35

And again scornful, but there is no one hurt.

Mowing

36

He takes up life simply with the small tasks.

Going for Water

37

PART II

Revelation

39

He resolves to become intelligible, at least to himself, since there is no help else;

The Trial by Existence

40

and to know definitely what he thinks about the soul;

In Equal Sacrifice

44

about love;

The Tuft of Flowers

47

about fellowship;

Spoils of the Dead

50

about death;

Pan with Us

52

about art (his own);

The Demiurge's Laugh

54

about science.

PART III

Now Close the Windows

55

It is time to make an end of speaking.

A Line-Storm Song

56

It is the autumnal mood with a difference.

October

58

He sees days slipping from him that were the best for what they were.

My Butterfly

59

There are things that can never be the same.

Reluctance

62