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 ...
Glorious daughter of time! Thou of the mild blue eye -- Thou of the virginal forehead --pallid, unfurrowed of tears-- ...
From the wide miles of autumn corn, Here to this sun-lit hill, The wind wails for a hope forlorn, And ...
You, if it fall to you to take From us the lamp that Athens gave, Fill it with mercy for ...
As to democracy, fellow citizens,Are you not prepared to admitThat I, who inherited riches and was to the manor born,Was ...
(America Conquers Europe.) Foul shapes that hate the day, again grown bold, Late driven hence, infested fane and court. The ...
I made two fights for the people.First I left my party, bearing the gonfalonOf independence, for reform, and was defeated.Next ...
You observe the carven handWith the index finger pointing heavenward.That is the direction, no doubt.But how shall one follow it?It ...
Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and IArgue about the freedom of the will.My favorite metaphor was Prickett's cowRoped out ...
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came I cried out in bitterness of soul: "O glorious republic now no ...
I was among multitudes of children Dancing at the foot of a mountain. A breeze blew out of the east ...
Neither spite, fellow citizens, Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness, And the lawlessness and waste Under democracy's rule in Spoon River ...
How did you feel, you libertarians, Who spent your talents rallying noble reasons Around the saloon, as if Liberty Was ...
You observe the carven hand With the index finger pointing heavenward. That is the direction, no doubt. But how shall ...
Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I Argue about the freedom of the will. My favorite metaphor was Prickett's ...
As to democracy, fellow citizens, Are you not prepared to admit That I, who inherited riches and was to the ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
I made two fights for the people. First I left my party, bearing the gonfalon Of independence, for reform, and ...
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