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 ...
Flag of the great republic, banner of men who were free! Carried aloft for freedom in many a bloody gorge; ...
Better than granite, Spoon River,Is the memory-picture you keep of meStanding before the pioneer men and womenThere at Concord Church ...
Do you think that odes and sermons,And the ringing of church bells,And the blood of old men and young men,Martyred ...
My valiant fight! For I call it valiant,With my father's beliefs from old Virginia:Hating slavery, but no less war.I, full ...
Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, president of the bank; Coolbaugh Wedon, editor of the Argus; Rev. Peet, pastor of the leading ...
If the learned Supreme Court of IllinoisGot at the secret of every caseAs well as it does a case of ...
When I first came to Spoon River I did not know whether what they told me Was true or false. ...
I said when they handed me my diploma,I said to myself I will be goodAnd wise and brave and helpful ...
My wife lost her health,And dwindled until she weighed scarce ninety pounds.Then that woman, whom the menStyled Cleopatra, came along.And ...
Where is my boy, my boy —In what far part of the world?The boy I loved best of all in ...
Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church,With my Bible under my armTill I was gray and ...
On a mountain top above the cloudsThat streamed like a sea below meI said that peak is the thought of ...
Do you remember when I stood on the stepsOf the Court House and talked free-silver,And the single-tax of Henry George?Then ...
What but the love of God could have softenedAnd made forgiving the people of Spoon RiverToward me who wronged the ...
I belonged to the church,And to the party of prohibition;And the villagers thought I died of eating watermelon.In truth I ...
Whenever the Presbyterian bell Was rung by itself, I knew it as the Presbyterian bell. But when its sound was ...
Were you not ashamed, fellow citizens, When my estate was probated and everyone knew How small a fortune I left?-- ...
I was the Sunday school superintendent, The dummy president of the wagon works And the canning factory, Acting for Thomas ...
Vegetarian, non-resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a Christian; Orator apt at the rhine-stone rhythm of Ingersoll. Carnivorous, avenger, believer and pagan. ...
I leaned against the mantel, sick, sick, Thinking of my failure, looking into the abysm, Weak from the noon-day heat. ...
Rhodes' slave! Selling shoes and gingham, Flour and bacon, overalls, clothing, all day long For fourteen hours a day for ...
The Prohibitionists made me Town Marshal When the saloons were voted out, Because when I was a drinking man, Before ...
What but the love of God could have softened And made forgiving the people of Spoon River Toward me who ...
On a mountain top above the clouds That streamed like a sea below me I said that peak is the ...
My wife lost her health, And dwindled until she weighed scarce ninety pounds. Then that woman, whom the men Styled ...
When I first came to Spoon River I did not know whether what they told me Was true or false. ...
Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church, With my Bible under my arm Till I was ...
I belonged to the church, And to the party of prohibition; And the villagers thought I died of eating watermelon. ...
I said when they handed me my diploma, I said to myself I will be good And wise and brave ...
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