Seth Compton (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
When I died, the circulating libraryWhich I built up for Spoon River,And managed for the good of inquiring minds,Was sold ...
When I died, the circulating libraryWhich I built up for Spoon River,And managed for the good of inquiring minds,Was sold ...
Publication-is the AuctionOf the Mind of Man-Poverty-be justifyingFor so foul a thingPossibly-but We-would ratherFrom Our Garret goWhite-Unto the White Creator-Than ...
Despite the noon sun shimmering on Court Street, each day I leave my desk, and window-shop, waste time, and use ...
As you plaited the harvest bow You implicated the mellowed silence in you In wheat that does not rust But ...
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
`You know Orion always comes up sideways. Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains, And rising on his ...
Publication -- is the Auction Of the Mind of Man -- Poverty -- be justifying For so foul a thing ...
Captain AJ Shout, VC, MC, MID (& bar), who died at Gallipoli of wounds and was posthumously awarded the VC, ...
When Cupid held an auction sale, I hastened to his mart, For I had heard that he would sell The ...
Lamoni, Iowa The factory siren tells workers time to go home tells them the evening has begun. When living with ...
These are the letters which Endymion wrote To one he loved in secret, and apart. And now the brawlers of ...
These are the letters which Endymion wrote To one he loved in secret, and apart. And now the brawlers of ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
for Brenda Williams The dawn cracked with ice, with fire grumbling in the grate, With ire in the homes we ...
1 I SING the Body electric; The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them; They will ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
I had no objection at all To selling my household effects at auction On the village square. It gave my ...
What is the head A. Ash What are the eyes A. The wells have fallen in and have Inhabitants What ...
When I died, the circulating library Which I built up for Spoon River, And managed for the good of inquiring ...
The fear of perjuring herself turned into a tacit Admission of her guilt. Yet she had the skill And the ...
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