This author described a place which was "no playhouse but a house in earnest" in a poem whose speaker tells the reader of a "broken drinking goblet like the Grail" and commands "Here are your waters and your watering place.
This author described a place which was "no playhouse but a house in earnest" in a poem whose speaker tells the reader of a "broken drinking goblet like the Grail" and commands "Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion." He mused about whether his coming sleep is like that of the woodchuck, "or just some human sleep", in a poem that begins "my long two-pointed (*) ladder's sticking through a tree / toward heaven still". This author of "Directive" and "After Apple-Picking" quipped that "one could do worse than be a swinger of" the title objects of one poem, and claimed to have "promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" in another. For 10 points, name this American poet of "Birches" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".
This author described a place which was "no playhouse but a house in earnest" in a poem whose speaker tells the reader of a "broken drinking goblet like the Grail" and commands "Here are your waters and your watering place.
Robert Lee Frost