Search Results: eight manuscript poems by frost robert

1946. 5 8-1/2 x 11 inch leaves, folded, 16 pp. plus wrappers. 8-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. Side-stiched, fine, with custom green half-morocco slipcase and matching chemise. 5 8-1/2 x 11 inch leaves, folded, 16 pp. plus wrappers. 8-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches. Impeccable fair copies of 8 poems that would be published in Steeple Bush (1947). 1) "To an Ancient" 2) "Something to Hope For": variant title ["Something for Hope" in published book]; line 12 starts "And in" (as in E38), rather than "And with" in book; line 15 has "noxious weed", rather than "wasteful weed" in book; line 17 stars "A cycle of say" (as in E38), rather than "A cycle we'll say" in book; line 21 ends in an exclamation point ("!"), but in a comma (",") in the book 3) "One Step Backward Taken" 4) "Why Wait for Science" 5) "But He Meant It": variant title, first published as such in the Atlantic Monthly (April, 1947) ["The Broken Drought" in book] 6) "The Courage to Be New": has a quatrain, listed here as a postscript, that is cut in the published… Read More