A Boy's Will - Poems by Robert Frost

A Boy''s Will is a poetry collection by Robert Frost and is the poet''s first commercially published book of poems. Dedicated to the poet’s wife Elinor A Boy’s Will which received enthusiastic early reviews from both Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats launched Frost’s career as America’s leading poet of the early-twentieth century. A largely autobiographical work the title of the collection comes from the repeated lines in the poem My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A boy''s will is the wind''s will And the thoughts of youth are long long thoughts.