The Spooniad (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
A LEGENDIN midst of wide green pasture-lands, cut through By lines of alders bordering deep-banked streams, Where bulrushes ...
_HARCOMBE NEAR LYME_September: 1878 Before me with one happy heave Of golden green the hillside curves, ...
I've knowed ole Flood this last five year or more;I knoo 'im when 'is Syd went to the war. A ...
Ah, 'twas but now I saw the sun flush pink on yonder placid tide; The purple hill-tops, one by one, ...
Dozens of damp little curls; One little short upper lip; Two rows of teeth like diminutive pearls; Eyes clear and ...
AriaThe tiresome winter now is goneThe day so short, the night so longAt gentle paceDo change their face,Now must dark ...
FIVE mites of monads dwelt in a round drop That twinkled on a leaf by a pool in the sun. ...
Most every night when they're in bed,And both their little prayers have said,They shout for me to come upstairsAnd tell ...
`What sound awakened me, I wonder, For now 'tis dumb.'`Wheels on the road most like, or thunder: Lie down; 'twas ...
LAZY and slow, through the snags and trees Move the sluggish currents, half asleep; Around and between the cypress knees, ...
I wandered alone beside the stream; The tide was out and the sands were bare; The tremulous tone of the ...
Hark! hark! hark!The lark sings high in the dark.The were wolves mutter, the night hawks moan,The raven croaks from the ...
As one star falls, others remain aloft.They soar and await their fall.A man dies, and the others say:"Thank God! It ...
Bath The day is fresh-washed and fair, and there is a smell of tulips and narcissus in the air. The ...
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
1/ here's a picture of us taking an impromptu walk side by side in the park our park, you dubbed ...
JIMMY WIMBLETON listened a first week in June. Ditches along prairie roads of Northern Illinois Filled the arch of night ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Well: Death is a huge omnivorous Toad Grim squatting on a twilight road. He catcheth all that Circumstance Hath tossed ...
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