A Boy's Will

Robert Frost

CONTENTS Part I Into My Own The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having forsworn the world.

Robert Frost

NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1916, 1921 BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY _May, 1931_ PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY, N. J. * * ...

Robert Frost

TO E. M. F. THIS BOOK OF PEOPLE THE PASTURE I'M going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the...

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.