Epilogue (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
(THE GRAVEYARD OF SPOON RIVER. TWO VOICES ARE HEARD BEHIND A SCREEN DECORATED WITH DIABOLICAL AND ANGELIC FIGURES IN VARIOUS ...
(THE GRAVEYARD OF SPOON RIVER. TWO VOICES ARE HEARD BEHIND A SCREEN DECORATED WITH DIABOLICAL AND ANGELIC FIGURES IN VARIOUS ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Because thou wast most delicate, A woman fair for men to see, The earth did compass thy estate, Thou didst ...
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when ...
Glorious daughter of time! Thou of the mild blue eye -- Thou of the virginal forehead --pallid, unfurrowed of tears-- ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire, A crucible of molten steel, O France! Your sons are stars who ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire,A crucible of molten steel, O France!Your sons are stars who cluster to ...
'Twas the shrunken soul of the traitor That whined in a coign of the dark; And the fiends were aroused ...
When conquerors lift the bloody shield, Showing the fallen's ooze of life, And on a waste of blasted field Joy ...
They first charged me with disorderly conduct,There being no statute on blasphemy.Later they locked me up as insaneWhere I was ...
Do you think that odes and sermons,And the ringing of church bells,And the blood of old men and young men,Martyred ...
If the learned Supreme Court of IllinoisGot at the secret of every caseAs well as it does a case of ...
Here! You sons of the menWho fought with Washington at Valley Forge,And whipped Black Hawk at Starved Rock,Arise! Do battle ...
In the lust of my strengthI cursed God, but he paid no attention to me:I might as well have cursed ...
Suppose it is nothing but the hive:That there are drones and workersAnd queens, and nothing but storing honey —(Material things ...
The idea danced before us as a flag;The sound of martial music;The thrill of carrying a gun;Advancement in the world ...
Oh, you young radicals and dreamers,You dauntless fledglingsWho pass by my headstone,Mock not its record of my captaincy in the ...
My wife lost her health,And dwindled until she weighed scarce ninety pounds.Then that woman, whom the menStyled Cleopatra, came along.And ...
Silent before the jury,Returning no word to the judge when he asked meIf I had aught to say against the ...
Toward the lastThe truth of others was untruth to me;The justice of others injustice to me;Their reasons for death, reasons ...
I went up and down the streetsHere and there by day and night,Through all hours of the night caring for ...
On a mountain top above the cloudsThat streamed like a sea below meI said that peak is the thought of ...
What but the love of God could have softenedAnd made forgiving the people of Spoon RiverToward me who wronged the ...
This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, ...
Get children, says Commodus. Why unbar The portals of the earth? Pre-natal dead If you had entered here the god ...
I sat on the bank above Bernadotte And dropped crumbs in the water, Just to see the minnows bump each ...
God! ask me not to record your wonders, I admit the stars and the suns And the countless worlds. But ...
I was the Sunday school superintendent, The dummy president of the wagon works And the canning factory, Acting for Thomas ...
Everyone laughed at Col. Prichard For buying an engine so powerful That it wrecked itself, and wrecked the grinder He ...
How did you feel, you libertarians, Who spent your talents rallying noble reasons Around the saloon, as if Liberty Was ...
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