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 ...
Beyond the gates of Hercules The seven builders took the stone, Spurned everywhere in days of ease, Long lying loose ...
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when ...
Glorious daughter of time! Thou of the mild blue eye -- Thou of the virginal forehead --pallid, unfurrowed of tears-- ...
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 ...
From the wide miles of autumn corn, Here to this sun-lit hill, The wind wails for a hope forlorn, And ...
Oh Lord, when all our bones are thrust Beyond the gaze of all but Thine; And these blaspheming tongues are ...
You, if it fall to you to take From us the lamp that Athens gave, Fill it with mercy for ...
With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked,As often before, the April fields till star-lightSilkened over with viewless ...
Flag of the great republic, banner of men who were free! Carried aloft for freedom in many a bloody gorge; ...
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom, and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, ...
Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring,After each other drifting, past my window drifting!And I lay so many years ...
A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me.A squaw-man, a flaneur and dilettante took my virtue.For years I was his ...
Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered the world, Dead with ...
Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted,Your love was not all in vain.I owe whatever I was in lifeTo ...
Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon's knife!And almost a year to creep back into strength,Till the dawn ...
If the learned Supreme Court of IllinoisGot at the secret of every caseAs well as it does a case of ...
In the lust of my strengthI cursed God, but he paid no attention to me:I might as well have cursed ...
I have studied many timesThe marble which was chiseled for me —A boat with a furled sail at rest in ...
Passer-by,To love is to find your own soulThrough the soul of the beloved one.When the beloved one withdraws itself from ...
Have any of you, passers-by,Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort?Or a pain in the side that never ...
Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree.The balmy air of spring whispers through the sweet grass,The ...
I am Minerva, the village poetess,Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the streetFor my heavy body, cock-eye, and ...
There is something about DeathLike love itself!If with some one with whom you have known passion,And the glow of youthful ...
What but the love of God could have softenedAnd made forgiving the people of Spoon RiverToward me who wronged the ...
I ran away from home with the circus,Having fallen in love with Mademoiselle Estralada,The lion tamer.One time, having starved the ...
Henry got me with child, Knowing that I could not bring forth life Without losing my own. In my youth ...
Your red blossoms amid green leaves Are drooping, beautiful geranium! But you do not ask for water. You cannot speak! ...
When I went to the city, Mary McNeely, I meant to return for you, yes I did. But Laura, my ...
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