Samson And Delilah (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Because thou wast most delicate, A woman fair for men to see, The earth did compass thy estate, Thou didst ...
Because thou wast most delicate, A woman fair for men to see, The earth did compass thy estate, Thou didst ...
Flag of the great republic, banner of men who were free! Carried aloft for freedom in many a bloody gorge; ...
There by the window in the old housePerched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley,My days of labor closed, sitting ...
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw meI went to Springfield. There I met a lush,Whose father just deceased left ...
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you ...
They first charged me with disorderly conduct,There being no statute on blasphemy.Later they locked me up as insaneWhere I was ...
Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood ...
Did I follow Truth wherever she led,And stand against the whole world for a cause,And uphold the weak against the ...
I was the daughter of Lambert Hutchins,Born in a cottage near the grist-mill,Reared in the mansion there on the hill,With ...
Oh, you young radicals and dreamers,You dauntless fledglingsWho pass by my headstone,Mock not its record of my captaincy in the ...
When I first came to Spoon River I did not know whether what they told me Was true or false. ...
How many times, during the twenty yearsI was your leader, friends of Spoon River,Did you neglect the convention and caucus,And ...
Both for the country and for the man,And for a country as well as a man,'Tis better to be feared ...
I made two fights for the people.First I left my party, bearing the gonfalonOf independence, for reform, and was defeated.Next ...
I went up and down the streetsHere and there by day and night,Through all hours of the night caring for ...
Do you remember when I stood on the stepsOf the Court House and talked free-silver,And the single-tax of Henry George?Then ...
What but the love of God could have softenedAnd made forgiving the people of Spoon RiverToward me who wronged the ...
I was the only child of Frances Harris of VirginiaAnd Thomas Greene of Kentucky,Of valiant and honorable blood both.To them ...
If you in the village think that my work was a good one,Who closed the saloons and stopped all playing ...
Tell me, was Altgeld elected Governor? For when the returns began to come in And Cleveland was sweeping the East, ...
Over and over they used to ask me, While buying the wine or the beer, In Peoria first, and later ...
I wanted to be County Judge One more term, so as to round out a service Of thirty years. But ...
While I was handling Dom Pedro I got at the thing that divides the race between men who are For ...
I tried to win the nomination For president of the County-board And I made speeches all over the County Denouncing ...
I was the laughing-stock of the village, Chiefly of the people of good sense, as they call themselves -- Also ...
Is it true, Spoon River, That in the hall-way of the New Court House There is a tablet of bronze ...
I reached the highest place in Spoon River, But through what bitterness of spirit! The face of my father, sitting ...
Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood ...
I was the daughter of Lambert Hutchins, Born in a cottage near the grist-mill, Reared in the mansion there on ...
There by the window in the old house Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley, My days of labor ...
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