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 ...
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 ...
From the wide miles of autumn corn, Here to this sun-lit hill, The wind wails for a hope forlorn, And ...
'Twas the shrunken soul of the traitor That whined in a coign of the dark; And the fiends were aroused ...
If the grim Fates, to stave ennui, Play whips for fun, or snares for game, The liar full of ease ...
Flag of the great republic, banner of men who were free! Carried aloft for freedom in many a bloody gorge; ...
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom, and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, ...
A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me.A squaw-man, a flaneur and dilettante took my virtue.For years I was his ...
Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted,Your love was not all in vain.I owe whatever I was in lifeTo ...
To be able to see every side of every question;To be on every side, to be everything, to be nothing ...
They told me I had three months to live,So I crept to Bernadotte,And sat by the mill for hours and ...
The press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked,And I was tarred and feathered,For publishing this on the day the ...
Their spirits beat upon mineLike the wings of a thousand butterflies.I closed my eyes and felt their spirits vibrating.I closed ...
I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you,I was ashamed of you. I despised youAs the place ...
Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce himFor the sake of the children,And Judge Somers advised him the same.So we ...
I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men.If I saw a soul that was strongI wounded its pride ...
At first you will know not what they mean,And you may never know,And we may never tell you: —These sudden ...
Both for the country and for the man,And for a country as well as a man,'Tis better to be feared ...
Why was I not devoured by self-contempt,And rotted down by indifferenceAnd impotent revolt like Indignation Jones?Why, with all of my ...
Passer-by, sin beyond any sinIs the sin of blindness of souls to other souls.And joy beyond any joy is the ...
What will you do when you come to die,If all your life long you have rejected Jesus,And know as you ...
I would have been as great as George EliotBut for an untoward fate.For look at the photograph of me made ...
Ye young debaters over the doctrineOf the soul's immortalityI who lie here was the village atheist,Talkative, contentious, versed in the ...
Passer-by,To love is to find your own soulThrough the soul of the beloved one.When the beloved one withdraws itself from ...
Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosionsEaten in my head-stone by the wind and rain —Almost as if an intangible ...
After you have enriched your soulTo the highest point,With books, thought, suffering, the understanding of many personalities,The power to interpret ...
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