Anthony Findlay (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Both for the country and for the man, And for a country as well as a man, 'Tis better to ...
Both for the country and for the man, And for a country as well as a man, 'Tis better to ...
Do you remember when I stood on the steps Of the Court House and talked free-silver, And the single-tax of ...
What but the love of God could have softened And made forgiving the people of Spoon River Toward me who ...
I made two fights for the people. First I left my party, bearing the gonfalon Of independence, for reform, and ...
Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak ...
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you ...
How many times, during the twenty years I was your leader, friends of Spoon River, Did you neglect the convention ...
They first charged me with disorderly conduct, There being no statute on blasphemy. Later they locked me up as insane ...
I went up and down the streets Here and there by day and night, Through all hours of the night ...
When I first came to Spoon River I did not know whether what they told me Was true or false. ...
If you in the village think that my work was a good one, Who closed the saloons and stopped all ...
Oh, you young radicals and dreamers, You dauntless fledglings Who pass by my headstone, Mock not its record of my ...
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me I went to Springfield. There I met a lush, Whose father just ...
Edgar Lee Masters - Hamilton Greene I was the only child of Frances Harris of Virginia And Thomas Greene of ...
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