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 ...
Beyond the gates of Hercules The seven builders took the stone, Spurned everywhere in days of ease, Long lying loose ...
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 ...
Two souls within this lunar cycle passed Beyond the curtained stage of life and time. One weary from long vigils, ...
Hear then of brawn-armed Samuel, Fair-haired and heavy-jaw; For he feared not the gates of hell, Spiked 'round with heaven's ...
With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked,As often before, the April fields till star-lightSilkened over with viewless ...
Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring,After each other drifting, past my window drifting!And I lay so many years ...
When conquerors lift the bloody shield, Showing the fallen's ooze of life, And on a waste of blasted field Joy ...
A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me.A squaw-man, a flaneur and dilettante took my virtue.For years I was his ...
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 ...
They told me I had three months to live,So I crept to Bernadotte,And sat by the mill for hours and ...
Well, don't you see this was the way of it:We bought the farm with what he inherited,And his brothers and ...
Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood ...
I was a lawyer like Harmon WhitneyOr Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard,For I tried the rights of property,Although by lamp-light, ...
Have any of you, passers-by,Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort?Or a pain in the side that never ...
You may think, passer-by, that FateIs a pit-fall outside of yourself,Around which you may walk by the use of foresightAnd ...
My mind was a mirror: It saw what it saw, it knew what it knew. In youth my mind was ...
I ran away from home with the circus,Having fallen in love with Mademoiselle Estralada,The lion tamer.One time, having starved the ...
I wanted to go away to college But rich Aunt Persis wouldn't help me. So I made gardens and raked ...
Rhodes' slave! Selling shoes and gingham, Flour and bacon, overalls, clothing, all day long For fourteen hours a day for ...
In the last spring I ever knew, In those last days, I sat in the forsaken orchard Where beyond fields ...
It was just like everything else in life: Something outside myself drew me down, My own strength never failed me. ...
Out of the lights and roar of cities, Drifting down like a spark in Spoon River, Burnt out with the ...
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came I cried out in bitterness of soul: "O glorious republic now no ...
I was crushed between Altgeld and Armour. I lost many friends, much time and money Fighting for Altgeld whom Editor ...
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