Dow Kritt (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Samuel is forever talking of his elm -- But I did not need to die to learn about roots: I, ...
Samuel is forever talking of his elm -- But I did not need to die to learn about roots: I, ...
My mind was a mirror: It saw what it saw, it knew what it knew. In youth my mind was ...
I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney Or Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard, For I tried the rights of property, ...
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me I went to Springfield. There I met a lush, Whose father just ...
A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me. A squaw-man, a flaneur and dilettante took my virtue. For years I ...
Well, don't you see this was the way of it: We bought the farm with what he inherited, And his ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire, A crucible of molten steel, O France! Your sons are stars who ...
I ran away from home with the circus, Having fallen in love with Mademoiselle Estralada, The lion tamer. One time, ...
Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood ...
There by the window in the old house Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley, My days of labor ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Have any of you, passers-by, Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort? Or a pain in the side ...
Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring, After each other drifting, past my window drifting! And I lay so ...
They told me I had three months to live, So I crept to Bernadotte, And sat by the mill for ...
With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked, As often before, the April fields till star-light Silkened over ...
You may think, passer-by, that Fate Is a pit-fall outside of yourself, Around which you may walk by the use ...
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