Elizabeth Childers (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered the world, Dead with ...
Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered the world, Dead with ...
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 earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you ...
Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon's knife!And almost a year to creep back into strength,Till the dawn ...
Better than granite, Spoon River,Is the memory-picture you keep of meStanding before the pioneer men and womenThere at Concord Church ...
They first charged me with disorderly conduct,There being no statute on blasphemy.Later they locked me up as insaneWhere I was ...
We stand about this place — we, the memories;And shade our eyes because we dread to read:"June 17th, 1884, aged ...
In a lingering fever many visions come to you:I was in the little house againWith its great yard of cloverRunning ...
Grandmother! You who sang to green valleys,And passed to a sweet repose at ninety-six,Here is your little Rita at lastGrown ...
The press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked,And I was tarred and feathered,For publishing this on the day the ...
You would not believe, would youThat I came from good Welsh stock?That I was purer blooded than the white trash ...
Do you think that odes and sermons,And the ringing of church bells,And the blood of old men and young men,Martyred ...
I wrote him a letter asking him for old times' sakeTo discharge my sick boy from the army;But maybe he ...
My valiant fight! For I call it valiant,With my father's beliefs from old Virginia:Hating slavery, but no less war.I, full ...
I was a peasant girl from Germany,Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong.And the first place I worked was at Thomas Greene's.On ...
At four o'clock in late OctoberI sat alone in the country school-houseBack from the road 'mid stricken fields,And an eddy ...
It is true, fellow citizens,That my old docket lying there for yearsOn a shelf above my head and overThe seat ...
You are over there, Father Malloy,Where holy ground is, and the cross marks every grave,Not here with us on the ...
Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood ...
I went to the dances at Chandlerville, And played snap-out at Winchester. One time we changed partners, Driving home in ...
Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, president of the bank; Coolbaugh Wedon, editor of the Argus; Rev. Peet, pastor of the leading ...
If the learned Supreme Court of IllinoisGot at the secret of every caseAs well as it does a case of ...
Their spirits beat upon mineLike the wings of a thousand butterflies.I closed my eyes and felt their spirits vibrating.I closed ...
Well, don't you see this was the way of it:We bought the farm with what he inherited,And his brothers and ...
She took my strength by minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon That ...
What do you see now? Globes of red, yellow, purple. Just a moment! And now? My father and mother and ...
Did I follow Truth wherever she led,And stand against the whole world for a cause,And uphold the weak against the ...
After I got religion and steadied downThey gave me a job in the canning works,And every morning I had to ...
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