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 ...
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 ...
Rich, honored by my fellow citizens,The father of many children, born of a noble mother,All raised thereIn the great mansion-house, ...
I looked like Abraham Lincoln.I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship,But standing for the rights of property ...
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw meI went to Springfield. There I met a lush,Whose father just deceased left ...
To be able to see every side of every question;To be on every side, to be everything, to be nothing ...
Do you think that odes and sermons,And the ringing of church bells,And the blood of old men and young men,Martyred ...
Did you ever hear of Editor WhedonGiving to the public treasury any of the money he receivedFor supporting candidated for ...
I was a lawyer like Harmon WhitneyOr Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard,For I tried the rights of property,Although by lamp-light, ...
Both for the country and for the man,And for a country as well as a man,'Tis better to be feared ...
I would have been as great as George EliotBut for an untoward fate.For look at the photograph of me made ...
I was sick, but more than that, I was madAt the crooked police, and the crooked game of life.So I ...
Here I lie close to the grave Of Old Bill Piersol, Who grew rich trading with the indians, and who ...
I was well known and much beloved And rich, as fortunes are reckoned In Spoon River, where I had lived ...
I was the Sunday school superintendent, The dummy president of the wagon works And the canning factory, Acting for Thomas ...
I wanted to go away to college But rich Aunt Persis wouldn't help me. So I made gardens and raked ...
It was just like everything else in life: Something outside myself drew me down, My own strength never failed me. ...
Over and over they used to ask me, While buying the wine or the beer, In Peoria first, and later ...
I was crushed between Altgeld and Armour. I lost many friends, much time and money Fighting for Altgeld whom Editor ...
My mother was for woman's rights And my father was the rich miller at London Mills. I dreamed of the ...
I wanted to be County Judge One more term, so as to round out a service Of thirty years. But ...
Often Aner Clute at the gate Refused me the parting kiss, Saying we should be engaged before that; And just ...
While I was handling Dom Pedro I got at the thing that divides the race between men who are For ...
I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney Or Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard, For I tried the rights of property, ...
Here I lie close to the grave Of Old Bill Piersol, Who grew rich trading with the indians, and who ...
I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship, But standing for the rights ...
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me I went to Springfield. There I met a lush, Whose father just ...
Did you ever hear of Editor Whedon Giving to the public treasury any of the money he received For supporting ...
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