Styx River Anthology (Carolyn Wells Poems)
A parody of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," wherein characters from famous poems and novels recite their own epithets.ANNABEL ...
A parody of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," wherein characters from famous poems and novels recite their own epithets.ANNABEL ...
Friend whom I never saw, yet dearest friend, Be with me travelling on the byeway now ...
It is the story of Thompson--of Thompson, the hero of Angels.Frequently drunk was Thompson, but always polite to the stranger;Light ...
Bruadar and Smith and Glinn Amen, dear God, I pray, May they lie ...
What is this strange and uncouth thingTo make me sigh, and seek, and faint, and die,Untill I ...
I KNEW it was comin', I'd watched fer a year Without sayin' a word to a soul excep' Ma Of ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
Lord, how I am all ague, when I seek What I have treasur'd in my memory! Since, if my soul ...
To sup with thee thou didst me home invite, And mad'st a promise that mine appetite Should meet and tire, ...
WEBSTER was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward ...
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot A constant habit; that when I would not ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
If, in the month of dark December, Leander, who was nightly wont (What maid will not the tale remember?) To ...
The last leaves fell like notes from a piano and left their ovals echoing in the ear; with gawky music ...
TO get betimes in Boston town, I rose this morning early; Here's a good place at the corner-I must stand ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
Argument. To leap from the promontory of LEUCADIA was believed by the Greeks to be a remedy for hopeless love, ...
Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, and how the wind doth ramm, Sing: Goddamm. ...
Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm. Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. ...
"I will to the King, And offer him consolation in his trouble, For that man there has set his teeth ...
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