English Poetry. Robert Lee Frost. Fragmentary Blue. Роберт Ли Фрост.

Robert Lee Frost (Роберт Ли Фрост)

Fragmentary Blue

Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.

Robert Lee Frost’s other poems:

1. Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter
2. The Investment
3. Reluctance
4. Pan with Us
5. Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be the Same

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