A Boy's Will

A Boy's Will is a poetry collection by Robert Frost. It is Frost's first book of poems, published by David Nutt in 1913. Following the success of North of Boston in 1914, Henry Holt and Company republished A Boy's Will in 1915. The New York Times said in a review, "In republishing his first book after his second, Mr. Robert Frost has undertaken the difficult task of competing with himself."

Poet William Butler Yeats said he considered A Boy's Will "the best poetry written in America in a long time."

Contents

 * Expanded Contents
 * Ghost House
 * My November Guest
 * Love and a Question
 * A Late Walk
 * Stars
 * Storm Fear
 * Wind and Window Flower
 * To the Thawing Wind
 * A Prayer in Spring
 * Flower-gathering


 * Rose Pogonias
 * Asking for Roses
 * Waiting Afield at Dusk
 * In a Vale
 * A Dream Pang
 * In Neglect
 * The Vantage Point
 * Mowing
 * Going for Water
 * Revelation
 * The Trial by Existence


 * In Equal Sacrifice
 * The Tuft of Flowers
 * Spoils of the Dead
 * Pan with Us
 * The Demiurge's Laugh
 * Now Close the Windows
 * A Line-storm Song
 * October
 * My Butterfly
 * Reluctance