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 ...
Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring,After each other drifting, past my window drifting!And I lay so many years ...
Why are you running so fast hither and thitherChasing midges or butterflies?Some of you are standing solemnly scratching for grubs;Some ...
Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered the world, Dead with ...
No other man, unless it was Doc Hill,Did more for people in this town than l.And all the weak, the ...
Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo, The sunset hour by the river, when Mickey M'Grew Cried, "There's a ghost," and ...
When I went to the city, Mary McNeely, I meant to return for you, yes I did. But Laura, my ...
Harry Wilmans! You who fell in a swamp Near Manila, following the flag, You were not wounded by the greatness ...
The sudden death of Eugene Carman Put me in line to be promoted to fifty dollars a month, And I ...
I leaned against the mantel, sick, sick, Thinking of my failure, looking into the abysm, Weak from the noon-day heat. ...
Father, thou canst never know The anguish that smote my heart For my disobedience, the moment I felt The remorseless ...
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came I cried out in bitterness of soul: "O glorious republic now no ...
Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered the world, Dead with ...
Why are you running so fast hither and thither Chasing midges or butterflies? Some of you are standing solemnly scratching ...
No other man, unless it was Doc Hill, Did more for people in this town than l. And all the ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring, After each other drifting, past my window drifting! And I lay so ...
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom, and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, ...
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