Thursday, March 26, 2015

Robert Frost’s Birthday ~ 16 March 1874

The Frost Farm, Derry, New Hampshire

Although we all think of him as a New England poet, did you know that Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California on 26 March 1874?  His father was a Southern sympathizer during the Civil War, and so he was named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee.  Frost’s roots run deep in the Granite State. He is a descendant of Nicholas Frost who arrived in New Hampshire in 1634.  You can read more about his ancestry at my previous blog post HERE.   http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/12/robert-frost-derry-resident.html


Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.


-----------------------
The URL for this post is
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/03/robert-frosts-birthday-16-march-1874.html
Copyright © 2015, Heather Wilkinson Rojo

No comments:

Post a Comment