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 ...
Do you think that odes and sermons,And the ringing of church bells,And the blood of old men and young men,Martyred ...
I was a lawyer like Harmon WhitneyOr Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard,For I tried the rights of property,Although by lamp-light, ...
Suppose you stood just five feet two,And had worked your way as a grocery clerk,Studying law by candle lightUntil you ...
Still fresh in my memory the smell of the burning palms the smoke thick, wrapping round me as the joy ...
It was only a little house of two rooms -- Almost like a child's play-house -- With scarce five acres ...
Do you think that odes and sermons, And the ringing of church bells, And the blood of old men and ...
I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney Or Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard, For I tried the rights of property, ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Suppose you stood just five feet two, And had worked your way as a grocery clerk, Studying law by candle ...
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