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 ...
Written for the benefit of a distressed Player, detainedat Brighthelmstone for Debt, November 1792. WHEN in a thousand swarms, the ...
(AFTER EDGAR ALLAN POE)The skies they were ashen and sober, The streets they were dirty and drear;It was night in ...
I've just been elected to Parliament,At Westminster I'm the big cheese,I'm also a Knight of the Garter, it's right In ...
His eye was wild and his face was taut with anger and hate and rage, ...
Mr Jeremiah JeffersOwned a pair of spotted heifersThese he sold for two pounds tenTo Mr Robert Raymond WrenWho reared them ...
Once in the starlight When the tides were low, And the surf fell sobbing To the undertow, ...
Borrow'd PlumesPrologueOf borrow'd plumes I take the sin, My extracts will applyTo some few silly songs ...
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw meI went to Springfield. There I met a lush,Whose father just deceased left ...
On winter pavements I will pound Them down with glistening glass and sun, Will let the ceiling hear their sound, ...
I'll tell you a plan for gaining wealth,Better than banking, trade or leases - Take a bank note and fold ...
Edgar Allen PoeWas passionately fond of roe.He always liked to chew someWhen writing anything gruesome.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
The works of Edgar WallaceWere the unfailing solaceOf a recent Prime MinisterWhen things were looking sinister.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
MY DEAR LADY GRANVILLE,-- THE reluctance which must naturally be felt by any one in venturing to give to the ...
The good gray guardians of art Patrol the halls on spongy shoes, Impartially protective, though Perhaps suspicious of Toulouse. Here ...
Nothing is given which is not taken. Little or nothing is taken which is not freely desired, freely, truly and ...
THE HORSE'S name was Remorse. There were people said, "Gee, what a nag!" And they were Edgar Allan Poe bugs ...
Edgar Lee Masters - Hamilton Greene I was the only child of Frances Harris of Virginia And Thomas Greene of ...
(To Edgar Lee Masters, with great respect) HERE upon the prarie Is our ancestral hall. Agate is the dome, Cornelian ...
Who now will praise the Wizard in the street With loyal songs, with humors grave and ...
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