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 ...
Because thou wast most delicate, A woman fair for men to see, The earth did compass thy estate, Thou didst ...
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when ...
Hear then of brawn-armed Samuel, Fair-haired and heavy-jaw; For he feared not the gates of hell, Spiked 'round with heaven's ...
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw meI went to Springfield. There I met a lush,Whose father just deceased left ...
I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you,I was ashamed of you. I despised youAs the place ...
I won the prize essay at school Here in the village, And published a novel before I was twenty-five. I ...
My father who owned the wagon-shopAnd grew rich shoeing horsesSent me to the University of Montreal.I learned nothing and returned ...
A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at ...
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when it ...
I won the prize essay at school Here in the village, And published a novel before I was twenty-five. I ...
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me I went to Springfield. There I met a lush, Whose father just ...
My father who owned the wagon-shop And grew rich shoeing horses Sent me to the University of Montreal. I learned ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you, I was ashamed of you. I despised you As ...
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