The Pioneer (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
From the wide miles of autumn corn, Here to this sun-lit hill, The wind wails for a hope forlorn, And ...
From the wide miles of autumn corn, Here to this sun-lit hill, The wind wails for a hope forlorn, And ...
Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring,After each other drifting, past my window drifting!And I lay so many years ...
Rich, honored by my fellow citizens,The father of many children, born of a noble mother,All raised thereIn the great mansion-house, ...
At four o'clock in late OctoberI sat alone in the country school-houseBack from the road 'mid stricken fields,And an eddy ...
I went to the dances at Chandlerville, And played snap-out at Winchester. One time we changed partners, Driving home in ...
Did I follow Truth wherever she led,And stand against the whole world for a cause,And uphold the weak against the ...
Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce himFor the sake of the children,And Judge Somers advised him the same.So we ...
The very fall my sister Nancy KnappSet fire to the houseThey were trying Dr. DuvalFor the murder of Zora Clemens,And ...
I was the millinerTalked about, lied about,Mother of Dora,Whose strange disappearanceWas charged to her rearing.My eye quick to beautySaw much ...
Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard oneBecause his children were all failures.But I know of a fate more trying ...
Where is my boy, my boy —In what far part of the world?The boy I loved best of all in ...
I would have been as great as George EliotBut for an untoward fate.For look at the photograph of me made ...
Together in this grave lie Benjamin Painter, attorney at law, And Nig, his dog, constant companion, solace and friend. Down ...
To this generation I would say:Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.It may serve a turn in your ...
They got me into the Sunday-schoolIn Spoon RiverAnd tried to get me to drop Confucius for Jesus.I could have been ...
This weeping willow!Why do you not plant a fewFor the millions of children not yet born,As well as for us?Are ...
Get children, says Commodus. Why unbar The portals of the earth? Pre-natal dead If you had entered here the god ...
Here lies the body of Lois Spears, Born Lois Fluke, daughter of Willard Fluke, Wife of Cyrus Spears, Mother of ...
I was among multitudes of children Dancing at the foot of a mountain. A breeze blew out of the east ...
It was only a little house of two rooms -- Almost like a child's play-house -- With scarce five acres ...
Why did Albert Schirding kill himself Trying to be County Superintendent of Schools, Blest as he was with the means ...
I preached four thousand sermons, I conducted forty revivals, And baptized many converts. Yet no deed of mine Shines brighter ...
The sudden death of Eugene Carman Put me in line to be promoted to fifty dollars a month, And I ...
I reached the highest place in Spoon River, But through what bitterness of spirit! The face of my father, sitting ...
Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys, Son of the love of Tereus and Procne, slain For the guilty ...
This weeping willow! Why do you not plant a few For the millions of children not yet born, As well ...
Together in this grave lie Benjamin Painter, attorney at law, And Nig, his dog, constant companion, solace and friend. Down ...
I was the milliner Talked about, lied about, Mother of Dora, Whose strange disappearance Was charged to her rearing. My ...
Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring, After each other drifting, past my window drifting! And I lay so ...
Rich, honored by my fellow citizens, The father of many children, born of a noble mother, All raised there In ...
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