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 ...
The nations are all calling To and fro, from strand to strand;Uniting in one army The slaves of ...
1 Who will honor the city without a name If so many are dead and others pan gold Or sell ...
The Lady Lorraine was sweet and fair; The Lady Lorraine was young; She had wonderful eyes and glorious hair, And ...
'Twas the night before Christmas,when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
Historic Santa! Seasonable Claus!Whose bulging sack is pregnant with delight;Who comest in the middle of the nightTo stuff distracting playthings ...
T'ward the last of bleak DecemberWhen the northern fields are bare,When the trees are still and leafless,And the frost flies ...
He will not come to him this year with all his old-time joy, An imitation Santa Claus must serve ...
Nicholas, Saint of Children,Loves to spend his wealthOn pretty toys for girls and boys,Leaving them by stealth.The wind in the ...
(For Aline) Monsignore, Right Reverend Bishop Valentinus, Sometime of Interamna, which is called Ferni, Now of the delightful Court of ...
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it ...
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
You were never told, Mother, how old Illyawas drunk That last holiday, for five days and nights He stumbled through ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head From Thetis' lap, I raised myself from bed, And mounting steed, ...
1 The children of the Czar Played with a bouncing ball In the May morning, in the Czar's garden, Tossing ...
In my life I was the town drunkard; When I died the priest denied me burial In holy ground. The ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
Thistle and darnell and dock grew there, And a bush, in the corner, of may, On the orchard wall I ...
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