If you find the information here useful, please help support this project!

Author: Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

A Boy's Will
A Further Range
A Witness Tree
Come In
Mountain Interval
New Hampshire
North of Boston
West-Running Brook

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.

Note: titles are in bold and first lines are in italics.
A blue rectangle containing a language code such as ENG indicates the presence of a translation to that language. A grey rectangle such as FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but is missing.

A dream pang (I had withdrawn in forest, and my song ) (from A Boy's Will) - W. Ames
A girl's garden (A neighbor of mine in the village) (from Mountain Interval) - R. Thompson
A minor bird (I have wished a bird would fly away ) (from West-Running Brook) - W. Ames, J. Behrend, C. Dougherty *
A neighbor of mine in the village (from Mountain Interval)
R. Thompson: A girl's garden

A patch of old snow (There's a patch of old snow in a corner ) (from Mountain Interval) - W. Ames, P. Spino
A prayer in spring (Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today ) (from A Boy's Will) - G. McKay
Acquainted with the night (I have been one acquainted with the night ) (from West-Running Brook) - J. Duke, A. Freed, J. Mitchell GER
After Apple-picking (My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree ) (from North of Boston) - G. Bachlund
An ant on the tablecloth (from A Further Range) *
L. Berkowitz: Chamber Music

As I came to the edge of the woods (from A Further Range) *
N. Rorem, R. Thompson: Come In

As I went out a Crow (from Mountain Interval)
J. Duke: The last word of a bluebird

Birches (When I see birches bend to left and right) (from Mountain Interval) - P. Reif
Chamber Music (An ant on the tablecloth) (from A Further Range) - L. Berkowitz *
Choose Something Like a Star (O Star (the fairest one in sight)) (from Come In) - R. Thompson, R. Thompson *
Come In (As I came to the edge of the woods ) (from A Further Range) - N. Rorem, R. Thompson *
Come with rain, O loud Southwester (from A Boy's Will)
J. Mitchell, J. Duke, E. Gregson: To the thawing wind

Departmental (An ant on the tablecloth) (from A Further Range) *
L. Berkowitz: Chamber Music

Dust of snow (The way a crow ) (from New Hampshire) - W. Ames, E. Carter, N. Peros, V. Persichetti, A. Rosser *
Fire and ice (Some say the world will end in fire ) (from New Hampshire) - W. Ames, H. Cowell, E. Moritz, C. Taylor
Here come the line-gang pioneering by (from Mountain Interval)
E. Carter: The line-gang

I had withdrawn in forest, and my song (from A Boy's Will)
W. Ames: A dream pang

I have been one acquainted with the night (from West-Running Brook) GER
J. Duke, A. Freed, J. Mitchell: Acquainted with the night

I have wished a bird would fly away (from West-Running Brook) *
W. Ames, J. Behrend, C. Dougherty: A minor bird

I turned to speak to God
G. Bachlund: Not All There

I wonder about the trees (from Mountain Interval)
H. Elwell: The sound of the trees

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring (from North of Boston)
H. Cowell, P. Gordon, B. Murray, C. Naginski, V. Persichetti, R. Thompson, M. Bonds: The pasture

It was too lonely for her there (from Mountain Interval)
R. Owen: The Impulse

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree (from North of Boston)
G. Bachlund: After Apple-picking

Nature's first green is gold (from New Hampshire)
W. Ames, C. Bentz, P. Spino, N. Peros, J. Musto: Nothing gold can stay
A. Henderson: Nothing gold

Nightscene (Part of a moon was falling down the west ) (from North of Boston) - J. Mitchell
Not All There (I turned to speak to God ) - G. Bachlund
Nothing gold (Nature's first green is gold ) (from New Hampshire) - A. Henderson
Nothing gold can stay (Nature's first green is gold ) (from New Hampshire) - W. Ames, C. Bentz, P. Spino, N. Peros, J. Musto
Now close the windows (Now close the windows and hush all the fields) (from A Boy's Will) - B. Murray
Now close the windows and hush all the fields (from A Boy's Will)
B. Murray: Now close the windows

O give us pleasure in the flowers today (Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today ) (from A Boy's Will) - T. Canning, C. Taylor
O hushed October morning mild (from A Boy's Will)
G. Bachlund, A. Henderson: October

O Star (the fairest one in sight) (from Come In) *
R. Thompson, R. Thompson: Choose Something Like a Star

October (O hushed October morning mild ) (from A Boy's Will) - G. Bachlund, A. Henderson
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today (from A Boy's Will)
G. McKay: A prayer in spring
T. Canning, C. Taylor: O give us pleasure in the flowers today

Out, Out (The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard) (from Mountain Interval) - L. Phelps
Pan came out of the woods one day, --
A. Henderson: Pan with us

Pan with us (Pan came out of the woods one day, -- ) - A. Henderson
Part of a moon was falling down the west (from North of Boston)
J. Mitchell: Nightscene

Prologue (When I see birches bend to left and right) (from Mountain Interval) - L. Spratlan
Riders (The surest thing there is is we are riders ) (from West-Running Brook) - J. Mitchell *
She is as in a field a silken tent (from A Witness Tree) *
A. Alon: The silken tent

Some say the world will end in fire (from New Hampshire)
W. Ames, H. Cowell, E. Moritz, C. Taylor: Fire and ice

Something inspires the only cow of late
P. Salerni: The Cow in Apple Time

Spring Pools (These pools that, though in forests, still reflect ) (from West-Running Brook) - W. Ames, H. Cowell *
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening (Whose woods these are I think I know ) (from New Hampshire) - A. Diers, N. Boulanger, F. Glazer, L. Gruenberg, W. Hoskins, J. Mitchell, J. La Montaine, O. Mortensen, N. Peros, N. Rorem, A. Rosser, P. Sargent, A. Schmutz, R. Thompson, L. Crabtree, M. Bonds, A. Henderson GER
The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard (from Mountain Interval)
L. Phelps: Out, Out

The Cow in Apple Time (Something inspires the only cow of late ) - P. Salerni
The dust of snow (The way a crow ) (from New Hampshire) - L. Hoiby *
The Gift Outright (The land was ours before we were the land's ) (from A Witness Tree) - R. Thompson *
The Impulse (It was too lonely for her there ) (from Mountain Interval) - R. Owen
The land was ours before we were the land's (from A Witness Tree) *
R. Thompson: The Gift Outright

The last word of a bluebird (As I went out a Crow) (from Mountain Interval) - J. Duke
The last word of a bluebird as told to a child (As I went out a Crow) (from Mountain Interval)
J. Duke: The last word of a bluebird

The line-gang (Here come the line-gang pioneering by ) (from Mountain Interval) - E. Carter
The oven bird (There is a singer everyone has heard) (from Mountain Interval) - A. Hinton
The pasture (I'm going out to clean the pasture spring ) (from North of Boston) - H. Cowell, P. Gordon, B. Murray, C. Naginski, V. Persichetti, R. Thompson, M. Bonds
The road not taken (Two roads diverged in a yellow wood ) (from Mountain Interval) - H. Elwell, R. Thompson GER
The rose family (The rose is a rose ) (from West-Running Brook) - E. Carter, J. Musto *
The rose is a rose (from West-Running Brook) *
E. Carter, J. Musto: The rose family

The silken tent (She is as in a field a silken tent ) (from A Witness Tree) - A. Alon *
The sound of the trees (I wonder about the trees) (from Mountain Interval) - H. Elwell
The surest thing there is is we are riders (from West-Running Brook) *
J. Mitchell: Riders

The telephone (When I was just as far as I could walk) (from Mountain Interval) - R. Thompson
The way a crow (from New Hampshire) *
L. Hoiby: The dust of snow
W. Ames, E. Carter, N. Peros, V. Persichetti, A. Rosser: Dust of snow

There is a singer everyone has heard (from Mountain Interval)
A. Hinton: The oven bird

There's a patch of old snow in a corner (from Mountain Interval)
W. Ames, P. Spino: A patch of old snow

These pools that, though in forests, still reflect (from West-Running Brook) *
W. Ames, H. Cowell: Spring Pools

To the thawing wind (Come with rain, O loud Southwester ) (from A Boy's Will) - J. Mitchell, J. Duke, E. Gregson
Tree at my window (Tree at my window, window tree ) (from West-Running Brook) - F. Jackson *
Tree at my window, window tree (from West-Running Brook) *
F. Jackson: Tree at my window

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood (from Mountain Interval) GER
H. Elwell, R. Thompson: The road not taken

Voices (When I was just as far as I could walk) (from Mountain Interval) - R. Birch
Waspish (from A Further Range) - C. Bentz [x] *
When I see birches bend to left and right (from Mountain Interval)
P. Reif: Birches
L. Spratlan: Prologue

When I was just as far as I could walk (from Mountain Interval)
R. Birch: Voices
R. Thompson: The telephone

Whose woods these are I think I know (from New Hampshire) GER
A. Diers, N. Boulanger, J. Duke, F. Glazer, L. Gruenberg, W. Hoskins, J. Mitchell, J. La Montaine, O. Mortensen, N. Peros, N. Rorem, A. Rosser, P. Sargent, A. Schmutz, R. Thompson, L. Crabtree, M. Bonds, A. Henderson: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening

[x] indicates a placeholder for a text that is not yet in the database
* indicates that a text cannot (yet?) be displayed on this site because of its copyright status.