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 ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when ...
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 ...
Two souls within this lunar cycle passed Beyond the curtained stage of life and time. One weary from long vigils, ...
From the wide miles of autumn corn, Here to this sun-lit hill, The wind wails for a hope forlorn, And ...
Old pioneers, how fare your souls to-day? They seem to be Imminent about this pastoral way, This sunny lea, The ...
Better than granite, Spoon River,Is the memory-picture you keep of meStanding before the pioneer men and womenThere at Concord Church ...
I was a peasant girl from Germany,Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong.And the first place I worked was at Thomas Greene's.On ...
I was sick, but more than that, I was madAt the crooked police, and the crooked game of life.So I ...
To this generation I would say:Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.It may serve a turn in your ...
I inherited forty acres from my FatherAnd, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughtersFrom dawn to dusk, ...
They got me into the Sunday-schoolIn Spoon RiverAnd tried to get me to drop Confucius for Jesus.I could have been ...
Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist,What will result from compoundingFluids or solids.And who can tellHow men ...
Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys, Son of the love of Tereus and Procne, slain For the guilty ...
Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo, The sunset hour by the river, when Mickey M'Grew Cried, "There's a ghost," and ...
Doc Meyers said I had satyriasis, And Doc Hill called it leucaemia -- But I know what brought me here: ...
Nothing in life is alien to you: I was a penniless girl from Summum Who stepped from the morning train ...
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came I cried out in bitterness of soul: "O glorious republic now no ...
I reached the highest place in Spoon River, But through what bitterness of spirit! The face of my father, sitting ...
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when it ...
I inherited forty acres from my Father And, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughters From dawn ...
Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist, What will result from compounding Fluids or solids. And who ...
They got me into the Sunday-school In Spoon River And tried to get me to drop Confucius for Jesus. I ...
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. It may serve a turn ...
I was a peasant girl from Germany, Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong. And the first place I worked was at ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire, A crucible of molten steel, O France! Your sons are stars who ...
I was sick, but more than that, I was mad At the crooked police, and the crooked game of life. ...
Better than granite, Spoon River, Is the memory-picture you keep of me Standing before the pioneer men and women There ...
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