Dorcas Gustine (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I was not beloved of the villagers, But all because I spoke my mind, And met those who transgressed against ...
I was not beloved of the villagers, But all because I spoke my mind, And met those who transgressed against ...
Grandmother! You who sang to green valleys, And passed to a sweet repose at ninety-six, Here is your little Rita ...
She took my strength by the minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon ...
Toward the last The truth of others was untruth to me; The justice of others injustice to me; Their reasons ...
My mind was a mirror: It saw what it saw, it knew what it knew. In youth my mind was ...
When I died, the circulating library Which I built up for Spoon River, And managed for the good of inquiring ...
I wrote him a letter asking him for old times' sake To discharge my sick boy from the army; But ...
If I could have lived another year I could have finished my flying machine, And become rich and famous. Hence ...
This weeping willow! Why do you not plant a few For the millions of children not yet born, As well ...
After you have enriched your soul To the highest point, With books, thought, suffering, the understanding of many personalities, The ...
Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon's knife! And almost a year to creep back into strength, Till ...
Have any of you, passers-by, Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort? Or a pain in the side ...
Not character, not fortitude, not patience Were mine, the which the village thought I had In bearing with my wife, ...
On a mountain top above the clouds That streamed like a sea below me I said that peak is the ...
Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel-- Faint iambics that the ...
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