Thomas was killed in France in 1917. When he died, he had a collection of Frost's poems with him. Soon after, in 1918, Frost wrote "War Thoughts at Home," Stilling said.

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

Sometime in 1912, before Robert Frost made his famous leap to “live under thatch” in England, where he would become known as a poet, he sent some of his poems to Ellery Sedgwick, the editor of ...

The great thing about archival work is there's always one more page to turn over. For graduate student Robert Stilling, finding a handwritten Robert Frost poem on the opening pages of a ...

LIMBONG: But sometimes things don't live up to their name at all, because Robert Frost has a poem called "Nothing New," and it is, in fact, new - to us, at least. It was originally written in 1918 but ...

And I always - as soon as I read this new poem, "Nothing New," by Frost, I thought it's essentially a version of "Dust Of Snow," which I think he wrote the following year. That poem stays in my brain.

Sometimes things live up to their name. Take Robert Frost. The four-time-Pulitzer-winning poet is known for his wintry poem "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

And I always - as soon as I read this new poem, "Nothing New," by Frost, I thought it's essentially a version of "Dust Of Snow," which I think he wrote the following year. That poem stays in my brain.

And I always - as soon as I read this new poem, "Nothing New," by Frost, I thought it's essentially a version of "Dust Of Snow," which I think he wrote the following year. That poem stays in my brain.