Epilogue (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
(THE GRAVEYARD OF SPOON RIVER. TWO VOICES ARE HEARD BEHIND A SCREEN DECORATED WITH DIABOLICAL AND ANGELIC FIGURES IN VARIOUS ...
(THE GRAVEYARD OF SPOON RIVER. TWO VOICES ARE HEARD BEHIND A SCREEN DECORATED WITH DIABOLICAL AND ANGELIC FIGURES IN VARIOUS ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire, A crucible of molten steel, O France! Your sons are stars who ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire,A crucible of molten steel, O France!Your sons are stars who cluster to ...
A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me.A squaw-man, a flaneur and dilettante took my virtue.For years I was his ...
In a lingering fever many visions come to you:I was in the little house againWith its great yard of cloverRunning ...
My valiant fight! For I call it valiant,With my father's beliefs from old Virginia:Hating slavery, but no less war.I, full ...
Well, don't you see this was the way of it:We bought the farm with what he inherited,And his brothers and ...
I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you,I was ashamed of you. I despised youAs the place ...
I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men.If I saw a soul that was strongI wounded its pride ...
At first you will know not what they mean,And you may never know,And we may never tell you: —These sudden ...
How many times, during the twenty yearsI was your leader, friends of Spoon River,Did you neglect the convention and caucus,And ...
Both for the country and for the man,And for a country as well as a man,'Tis better to be feared ...
They would have lynched meHad I not been secretly hurried awayTo the jail at Peoria.And yet I was going peacefully ...
What will you do when you come to die,If all your life long you have rejected Jesus,And know as you ...
They laughed at me as "Prof. Moon,"As a boy in Spoon River, born with the thirstOf knowing about the stars.They ...
Together in this grave lie Benjamin Painter, attorney at law, And Nig, his dog, constant companion, solace and friend. Down ...
Passer-by,To love is to find your own soulThrough the soul of the beloved one.When the beloved one withdraws itself from ...
Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknownWho lies here with no stone to mark the place.As a ...
I was crushed between Altgeld and Armour. I lost many friends, much time and money Fighting for Altgeld whom Editor ...
The bank broke and I lost my savings. I was sick of the tiresome game in Spoon River And I ...
Do you remember, passer-by, the path I wore across the lot where now stands the opera house, Hasting with swift ...
My thanks, friends of the County Scientific Association, For this modest boulder, And its little tablet of bronze. Twice I ...
I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you, I was ashamed of you. I despised you As ...
My valiant fight! For I call it valiant, With my father's beliefs from old Virginia: Hating slavery, but no less ...
They laughed at me as "Prof. Moon," As a boy in Spoon River, born with the thirst Of knowing about ...
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when it ...
Passer-by, To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one. When the beloved one ...
Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknown Who lies here with no stone to mark the place. ...
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