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 ...
INot yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies,And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained,While overhead in ordered set and riseHer ...
SCENE--London, a Bookseller's Shop. Enter Author, smiling and rubbing his Hands. AUTHOR. Well, Slider!--and how d'ye go on with my ...
'Tis the part of a wise Man to examine the means of attaining the end, that he be not foiled ...
Having consider'd thus what's to be done,The hazards, hardships, and the risque you run,Consider with what strength you are endow'd,What ...
If I had youth I'd bid the world to try me; I'd answer every challenge to my will.And though the ...
If I had youth I'd bid the world to try me;I'd answer every challenge to my will.Though mountains stood in ...
Yes, injured Woman! rise, assert thy right!Woman! too long degraded, scorned, opprest;O born to rule in partial Law's despite,Resume thy ...
Come you with dangers to fright us? or hazardsto try out our souls?Then may you find us undaunted; determined toget ...
Song of the Soldiers What of the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say ...
Call it a good marriage - For no one ever questioned Her warmth, his masculinity, Their interlocking views; Except one ...
A grandfather's perspective, worthy of reflection the world, so coarse, so raw, so dangerous So much more, human made hazards ...
Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at ...
Sometimes I stroll through forests just sprayed for the gypsy moths. I throw a rock into the bushes to distract ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
Here is this vale of sweet abiding, My ultimate and dulcet home, That gently dreams above the chiding of restless ...
Twin boys I bore, my joy, my care, My hope, my life they were to me; Their father, dashing, debonair, ...
A LONE gray bird, Dim-dipping, far-flying, Alone in the shadows and grandeurs and tumults Of night and the sea And ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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