Frances Frost

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Frances Frost (August 3, 1905 St. Albans, Vermont – February 11, 1959 New York City) was an American poet, novelist and mother of poet Paul Blackburn. Frances Mary Frost attended Middlebury College from 1923 to 1926 and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1931. At Middlebury she joined Delta Delta Delta. She married William Gordon Blackburn of St. Albans, Vermont, on April 4, 1926 and Samuel Gaillard Stoney of Charleston, South Carolina, on September 18, 1933. Her son was Paul Blackburn (U.S. poet). Her work appeared in the New York Herald Tribune, The New Yorker, Harper's, and Saturday Review. Her papers are held at University of California, San Diego, and Yale University.)

The Best Poem Of Frances Frost

Night Plane

The midnight plane with its flying lights
looks like an unloosed star
wandering west through blue-black night
to where the mountains are,
a star that's come so close to earth
to tell each quiet farm and little town,
'Put out your lights, children of earth. Sleep warm.'

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