Gathering Leaves - A poem by Robert Frost

Robert Frost - Gathering Leaves

Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.

I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.

But the mountains I raise
Elude my embrace,
Flowing over my arms
And into my face.

I may load and unload
Again and again
Till I fill the whole shed,
And what have I then?

Next to nothing for weight,
And since they grew duller
From contact with earth,
Next to nothing for color.

Next to nothing for use.
But a crop is a crop,
And who's to say where
The harvest shall stop?

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Poet: Robert Frost (Robert Frost Art) Poem: 37. Gathering Leaves Volume: New Hampshire Year: Published/Written in 1923 Comment 11 of 11, added on March 4th, 2010 at 2:48 PM. this poem sorry about that last comment, some one hacked my computer and started wrinting on my "favorites" walls. Once again, I am very sorry. Jonh Comment 10 of 11, added on March 4th, 2010 at 2:48 PM. this poem This poem is pretty gay. I think you people need to all go get some weed and smoke it. Yeah bitches. Jonh Comment 9 of 11, added on November 18th, 2008 at 6:13 PM. To me, this is about his poems. At least I know I feel this way about my poems. Happy Pappy says "Robert Frost must have had too much time on his hands if he actually thought it was good." I suspect with Frost it wasn't so much that he thought it was good as that he realized it was not half bad - the old six of one, half dozen of another thinking that is so typical of the people whose geography he shared. He only claimed to have written a few that he knew would be "hard to get rid of." ea More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Gathering Leaves, has received 11 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Robert Frost with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Robert Frost Poem: 37. Gathering Leaves Volume: New Hampshire Year: Published/Written in 1923 Last read: Sep 2 2010, 10:33AM Viewed 21418 times. Added on November 18th, 2008 at 6:13 PM.

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