Jack McGuire (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
They would have lynched me Had I not been secretly hurried away To the jail at Peoria. And yet I ...
They would have lynched me Had I not been secretly hurried away To the jail at Peoria. And yet I ...
Suppose you stood just five feet two, And had worked your way as a grocery clerk, Studying law by candle ...
Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions Eaten in my head-stone by the wind and rain -- Almost as if ...
I know that he told how I snared his soul With a snare which bled him to death. And all ...
I said when they handed me my diploma, I said to myself I will be good And wise and brave ...
I never saw any difference Between playing cards for money And selling real estate, Practicing law, banking, or anything else. ...
Silent before the jury, Returning no word to the judge when he asked me If I had aught to say ...
I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney Or Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard, For I tried the rights of property, ...
After I had attended lectures At our Chautauqua, and studied French For twenty years, committing the grammar Almost by heart, ...
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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