Mountain Interval

First edition cover
Author	Robert Frost
Genre	Poetry collection
Published	1916
Publisher	Henry Holt
Preceded by	North of Boston (1914)
Followed by	Selected Poems (1923)

Mountain Interval is a 1916 poetry collection written by American poet Robert Frost. Published by Henry Holt, it is Frost's third poetic volume.

Background

The book was republished in 1920, and after making several alterations in the sequencing of the collection, Frost released a new edition in 1924.^{[citation needed]} Five lyrics of the earlier collection were compiled next under the title "The Hill Wife". In this volume only three poems are written in dramatic monologue.

Poems

• "The Road Not Taken"
• "Christmas Trees"
• "An Old Man's Winter Night"
• "The Exposed Nest"
• "A Patch of Old Snow"
• "In the Home Stretch"
• "The Telephone Machine"
• "Meeting and Passing"
• "Hyla Brook"
• "The Oven Bird"
• "Bond and Free"
• "Birches"
• "Pea Brush"
• "Putting in the Seed"
• "A Time to Talk"
• "The Cow in Apple Time"
• "The Encounter"
• "Range-Finding"
• "The Hill Wife"
• "The Bonfire"
• "A Girl's Garden"
• "Locked Out"
• "The Last Word of a Blue Bird"
• "Out, Out—"
• "Brown's Descent, or the Willy-nilly Slide"
• "The Gum-Gatherer"
• "The Line-Gang"
• "The Vanishing Red"
• "Snow"
• "The Sound of Trees"
• "Assertive"