Both husband and wife taught school for a time, then in 1897 Frost entered Harvard

College as a special student, remaining there just short of two years. He performed well

at Harvard, but his health was uncertain and he rejoined his wife in Lawrence, where

she was about to bear an another child. In October of 1900 he settled with his family on a

farm just over the Massachusetts line in New Hampshire, purchased for him by his

grandfather. There, over the next nine years, he wrote many of the poems that would

make up his first published volumes. But his attempt at poultry farming was none too

successful, and by 1906 he had begun teaching English at Pinkerton Academy, a

secondary school in New Hampshire.

That same year two of his most accomplished early poems, 'The Tuft of Flowers' and 'The Trial by Existence',

were published. Meanwhile he and his wife produced six children, two of whom died in infancy. After a year spent

teaching at the State Normal School in Plymouth, New Hampshire, he sold the Derry farm and in the fall of 1912

sailed with his family from Boston to Glasgow, then settled outside London in Beaconsfield. Within two months of

his arrival in England, Frost placed his first book of poems, A Boy's Will (1913) with a small London publisher, David Nutt.