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 ...
Beyond the gates of Hercules The seven builders took the stone, Spurned everywhere in days of ease, Long lying loose ...
'Twas the shrunken soul of the traitor That whined in a coign of the dark; And the fiends were aroused ...
Hear then of brawn-armed Samuel, Fair-haired and heavy-jaw; For he feared not the gates of hell, Spiked 'round with heaven's ...
If the grim Fates, to stave ennui, Play whips for fun, or snares for game, The liar full of ease ...
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 ...
I know that he told how I snared his soul With a snare which bled him to death. And all ...
I was a lawyer like Harmon WhitneyOr Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard,For I tried the rights of property,Although by lamp-light, ...
I said when they handed me my diploma,I said to myself I will be goodAnd wise and brave and helpful ...
Suppose you stood just five feet two,And had worked your way as a grocery clerk,Studying law by candle lightUntil you ...
They would have lynched meHad I not been secretly hurried awayTo the jail at Peoria.And yet I was going peacefully ...
After I had attended lecturesAt our Chautauqua, and studied FrenchFor twenty years, committing the grammarAlmost by heart,I thought I'd take ...
Silent before the jury,Returning no word to the judge when he asked meIf I had aught to say against the ...
Together in this grave lie Benjamin Painter, attorney at law, And Nig, his dog, constant companion, solace and friend. Down ...
Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosionsEaten in my head-stone by the wind and rain —Almost as if an intangible ...
If thou, Columbia, dost from this, thy son-- The condor beak and python eyes--recoil, Bethink thee of the years that ...
I was the only child of Frances Harris of VirginiaAnd Thomas Greene of Kentucky,Of valiant and honorable blood both.To them ...
I never saw any differenceBetween playing cards for moneyAnd selling real estate,Practicing law, banking, or anything else.For everything is chance.NeverthelessSeest ...
Over and over they used to ask me, While buying the wine or the beer, In Peoria first, and later ...
It was only a little house of two rooms -- Almost like a child's play-house -- With scarce five acres ...
Neither spite, fellow citizens, Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness, And the lawlessness and waste Under democracy's rule in Spoon River ...
How does it happen, tell me, That I who was the most erudite of lawyers, Who knew Blackstone and Coke ...
He protested all his life long The newspapers lied about him villainously; That he was not at fault for Minerva's ...
I lost my patronage in Spoon River From trying to put my mind in the camera To catch the soul ...
Is it true, Spoon River, That in the hall-way of the New Court House There is a tablet of bronze ...
I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker, Smiter with whips and swords; I, hater of the breakers of the law; I, legalist, inexorable ...
Edgar Lee Masters - Hamilton Greene I was the only child of Frances Harris of Virginia And Thomas Greene of ...
Better than granite, Spoon River, Is the memory-picture you keep of me Standing before the pioneer men and women There ...
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