Frost, Robert

Framed autographed quotation by Frost from “A Lone Striker,” a poem based upon recollections of his early life, and a work from which extracts in the poet’s hand are not often seen.

• Robert Frost (American).
• N.p., N.D.
• 8vo.
• Pen and ink on paper.
• Six lines, entirely in Frost‘s hand: “He knew another place, a wood, / And in it, tall as trees, were cliffs; / And if he stood on one of these, / ’Twould be among the tops of trees, / Their upper branches round him wreathing, / Their breathing mingled with his breathing … / [signed:] Robert Frost / For Stuart W. Jackson.”
• The succeeding line in the poem gives the decisive thrust: “If — if he stood! Enough of ifs!”
• The poem was published by Knopf in 1933 as one of the Knopf Borzoi Chap Books.

About fine Complete Poems, p. 356.

cf. Thompson, Robert Frost, The Early Years, pp. 160-161.