A Boy's Willby Robert Frost

Mowing

Revelation

Going for Water

 THE well was dry beside the door, 
 And so we went with pail and can 
 Across the fields behind the house 
 To seek the brook if still it ran; 
 Not loth to have excuse to go, 
 Because the autumn eve was fair 
 (Though chill), because the fields were ours, 
 And by the brook our woods were there. 
 We ran as if to meet the moon 
 That slowly dawned behind the trees, 
 The barren boughs without the leaves, 
 Without the birds, without the breeze. 
 But once within the wood, we paused 
 Like gnomes that hid us from the moon, 
 Ready to run to hiding new 
 With laughter when she found us soon. 
 Each laid on other a staying hand 
 To listen ere we dared to look, 
 And in the hush we joined to make 
 We heard, we knew we heard the brook. 
 A note as from a single place, 
 A slender tinkling fall that made 
 Now drops that floated on the pool 
 Like pearls, and now a silver blade.