Banner Of Men Who Were Free (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Flag of the great republic, banner of men who were free! Carried aloft for freedom in many a bloody gorge; ...
Flag of the great republic, banner of men who were free! Carried aloft for freedom in many a bloody gorge; ...
Tell me ye King-craft of to-day Where is Athens, who made men free; Then sank into stupor by the way, ...
There by the window in the old housePerched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley,My days of labor closed, sitting ...
Do you think that odes and sermons,And the ringing of church bells,And the blood of old men and young men,Martyred ...
As to democracy, fellow citizens,Are you not prepared to admitThat I, who inherited riches and was to the manor born,Was ...
If thou, Columbia, dost from this, thy son-- The condor beak and python eyes--recoil, Bethink thee of the years that ...
Out of me unworthy and unknown The vibrations of deathless music; 'With malice toward none, with charity for all.' Out ...
Neither spite, fellow citizens, Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness, And the lawlessness and waste Under democracy's rule in Spoon River ...
They brought me ambrotypes Of the old pioneers to enlarge. And sometimes one sat for me- Some one who was ...
Out of me unworthy and unknown The vibrations of deathless music; 'With malice toward none, with charity for all.' Out ...
Do you think that odes and sermons, And the ringing of church bells, And the blood of old men and ...
As to democracy, fellow citizens, Are you not prepared to admit That I, who inherited riches and was to the ...
There by the window in the old house Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley, My days of labor ...
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