greykit.poetry — #escape

• 1916 [robert-frost] Birches
  Mountain Interval

  Ice storms bend the birches for good, but the poet would rather believe a boy did it — and wants the same for himself: to climb toward heaven until the tree sets him down again, since earth's the right place for love.

  #blank-verse#childhood#escape#1910s
• 1890 [w-b-yeats] The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  The Rose

  Yeats's longing for the simple life on Innisfree — a cabin, nine bean-rows, a hive for the honey-bee — heard even in the deep heart's core while standing on city pavements.

  #lyric#nature#longing#escape#1890s