Contains: Foreword -- Pasture -- Into my own -- Ghost house -- My November guest -- Love and a question -- late walk -- Starts -- Storm fear -- Wind and Window Flower -- Flower-gathering -- Rose pogonias -- Waiting -- in a vale -- Dream pang -- Neglect -- Vantage point -- Mowing -- going for water -- Trial by existence -- Tuft of flowers -- Pan with us -- Line-storm song -- October -- My butterfly -- Reluctance -- Mending wall -- Death of the hired man -- Mountain -- Hundred collars -- Home burial -- Black cottage -- Blueberries -- Servant to servants -- After apple-picking -- Code -- Generations of men -- Housekeeper -- Fear -- Wood-pile -- Good hours -- Road not taken -- Christmas trees -- An old man's winter night -- Patch of old snow -- Home stretch -- Telephone -- Meeting and passing -- Hyla Brook -- Oven bird -- Bond and free -- Birches -- Pea brush -- Putting in the seed -- Time to talk -- Cow in apple time -- Encounter -- Range-finding -- Hill wife -- Bonfire -- Girl's garden -- Exposed nest -- "Out, out-" -- Brown's descent -- Gum-gatherer -- Line-gang -- Vanishing red -- Snow -- Sound of the trees -- Star is a stone-boat -- Census-taker -- Maple -- Ax-helve -- Grindstone -- Wild grapes -- pauper witch of Grafton -- Fire and ice -- Misgiving -- Snow dust -- For once, then, something -- Onset -- Good-by and keep cold -- Need of being versed in country things -- Fragmentary blue -- Flower boat -- Index of first lines.