You Come Too

Books of Poetry, IV

YOU COME TOO: FAVORITE POEMS FOR YOUNG READERS
New York, 1959

Frost dedicated this book to his mother Belle Moodie Frost "who knew as a teacher that no poetry was good for children that wasn't equally good for their elders."

Dedication

THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Washington, D.C., January 20, 1961

The poem "Dedication" was written for John F. Kennedy's inauguration. With the sun glaring in his eyes Frost was unable to read his composition but instead gave a clear reading of "The Gift Outright." "The Gift Outright" was first printed in The Virginia Quarterly Review in 1942, and later that year included in A Witness Tree. The woodcut on the cover is by Fritz Kredel.

In the Clearing

IN THE CLEARING
New York, 1962

An advanced copy of the trade edition published on Robert Frost's birthday, March 26, 1962. Frost inscribed this copy to his biographer Lawrance Thompson.