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 ...
O sweet maiden, so fair and retiring, At the corner I'm waiting for you; And I'm scratching my head, ...
With what attentive courtesy he bentOver his instrument;Not as a lordly conquerer who couldCommand both wire and wood,But as a ...
CHORUS: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom Whence by what way how purposed art thou come To ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
All afternoon I have been struggling to communicate in Italian with Roberto and Giuseppe, who have begun to resemble the ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
The moon is full this winter night; The stars are clear, though few; And every window glistens bright, With leaves ...
Beautiful cloud! with folds so soft and fair, Swimming in the pure quiet air! Thy fleeces bathed in sunlight, while ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
I A washing hangs upon the line, but it's not mine. None of the things that I can see belong ...
We sow the glebe, we reap the corn, We build the house where we may rest, And then, at moments, ...
Those villages stricken with the melancholia of Sunday, in all of whose ocher streets one dog is sleeping those volcanoes ...
FACING west, from California's shores, Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, I, a child, very old, over waves, towards ...
Whither was it that my spirit wended When from thee my fleeting shadow moved? Is not now each earthly conflict ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
"Whether all towns and all who live in them- So long as they be somewhere in this world That we ...
You came - determined, because I was large, because I was roaring, but on close inspection you saw a mere ...
When I died, the circulating library Which I built up for Spoon River, And managed for the good of inquiring ...
There is delight in singing, though none hear Beside the singer; and there is delight In praising, though the praiser ...
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