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Learning to Hover: Robert Frost, Robert Francis, and the Poetry of Detached Engagement.

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From: Twentieth Century Literature
Date: 19991222
Author:STAMBUK, ANDREW

In Robert Francis's reminiscence of Robert Frost, A Time to Talk, the entry dated April 4, 1932, contains a poem published the day before in the Springfield Republican and Union. Francis wrote the poem to commemorate Frost's arrival at Amherst. Here are its final stanzas:

Best of all--you've heard?--he comes to stay.

This is his home now. He is here for good.

To leave us now would be running away.

(I too would stay forever if I could.)

While he stays, life that breathless fugitive,

Will stay. While he lives, some things here won't die.

And we, ...

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