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 ...
Because thou wast most delicate, A woman fair for men to see, The earth did compass thy estate, Thou didst ...
You, if it fall to you to take From us the lamp that Athens gave, Fill it with mercy for ...
Old pioneers, how fare your souls to-day? They seem to be Imminent about this pastoral way, This sunny lea, The ...
Rich, honored by my fellow citizens,The father of many children, born of a noble mother,All raised thereIn the great mansion-house, ...
They first charged me with disorderly conduct,There being no statute on blasphemy.Later they locked me up as insaneWhere I was ...
In a lingering fever many visions come to you:I was in the little house againWith its great yard of cloverRunning ...
What do you see now? Globes of red, yellow, purple. Just a moment! And now? My father and mother and ...
Suppose it is nothing but the hive:That there are drones and workersAnd queens, and nothing but storing honey —(Material things ...
The idea danced before us as a flag;The sound of martial music;The thrill of carrying a gun;Advancement in the world ...
There is the caw of a crow,And the hesitant song of a thrush.There is the tinkle of a cowbell far ...
They called me the weakling, the simpleton,For my brothers were strong and beautiful,While I, the last child of parents who ...
Passer-by,To love is to find your own soulThrough the soul of the beloved one.When the beloved one withdraws itself from ...
Herbert broke our engagement of eight yearsWhen Annabelle returned to the villageFrom the Seminary, ah me!If I had let my ...
Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree.The balmy air of spring whispers through the sweet grass,The ...
Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknownWho lies here with no stone to mark the place.As a ...
I could not run or playIn boyhood.In manhood I could only sip the cup,Not drink —For scarlet-fever left my heart ...
Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo, The sunset hour by the river, when Mickey M'Grew Cried, "There's a ghost," and ...
The pine woods on the hill, And the farmhouse miles away, Showed clear as though behind a lens Under a ...
I wanted to be County Judge One more term, so as to round out a service Of thirty years. But ...
How does it happen, tell me, That I who was the most erudite of lawyers, Who knew Blackstone and Coke ...
Samuel is forever talking of his elm -- But I did not need to die to learn about roots: I, ...
In the last spring I ever knew, In those last days, I sat in the forsaken orchard Where beyond fields ...
Not in that wasted garden Where bodies are drawn into grass That feeds no flocks, and into evergreens That bear ...
Once in a while a curious weed unknown to me, Needing a name from my books; Once in a while ...
I who kept the greenhouse, Lover of trees and flowers, Oft in life saw this umbrageous elm, Measuring its generous ...
Everyone laughed at Col. Prichard For buying an engine so powerful That it wrecked itself, and wrecked the grinder He ...
They called me the weakling, the simpleton, For my brothers were strong and beautiful, While I, the last child of ...
What do you see now? Globes of red, yellow, purple. Just a moment! And now? My father and mother and ...
There is the caw of a crow, And the hesitant song of a thrush. There is the tinkle of a ...
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