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 ...
Better than granite, Spoon River,Is the memory-picture you keep of meStanding before the pioneer men and womenThere at Concord Church ...
You would not believe, would youThat I came from good Welsh stock?That I was purer blooded than the white trash ...
I went to the dances at Chandlerville, And played snap-out at Winchester. One time we changed partners, Driving home in ...
I was the daughter of Lambert Hutchins,Born in a cottage near the grist-mill,Reared in the mansion there on the hill,With ...
I won the prize essay at school Here in the village, And published a novel before I was twenty-five. I ...
I inherited forty acres from my FatherAnd, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughtersFrom dawn to dusk, ...
Here lies the body of Lois Spears, Born Lois Fluke, daughter of Willard Fluke, Wife of Cyrus Spears, Mother of ...
When I went to the city, Mary McNeely, I meant to return for you, yes I did. But Laura, my ...
I was the Sunday school superintendent, The dummy president of the wagon works And the canning factory, Acting for Thomas ...
Doc Meyers said I had satyriasis, And Doc Hill called it leucaemia -- But I know what brought me here: ...
I went to the dances at Chandlerville, And played snap-out at Winchester. One time we changed partners, Driving home in ...
I won the prize essay at school Here in the village, And published a novel before I was twenty-five. I ...
I inherited forty acres from my Father And, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughters From dawn ...
I was the daughter of Lambert Hutchins, Born in a cottage near the grist-mill, Reared in the mansion there on ...
Better than granite, Spoon River, Is the memory-picture you keep of me Standing before the pioneer men and women There ...
You would not believe, would you That I came from good Welsh stock? That I was purer blooded than the ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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