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 ...
Glorious daughter of time! Thou of the mild blue eye -- Thou of the virginal forehead --pallid, unfurrowed of tears-- ...
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 ...
From the wide miles of autumn corn, Here to this sun-lit hill, The wind wails for a hope forlorn, And ...
If the grim Fates, to stave ennui, Play whips for fun, or snares for game, The liar full of ease ...
Flag of the great republic, banner of men who were free! Carried aloft for freedom in many a bloody gorge; ...
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 ...
My parents thought that I would beAs great as Edison or greater:For as a boy I made balloonsAnd wondrous kites ...
Suppose it is nothing but the hive:That there are drones and workersAnd queens, and nothing but storing honey —(Material things ...
Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel— Faint iambics that the ...
When I first came to Spoon River I did not know whether what they told me Was true or false. ...
Why did you bruise me with your rough placesIf you did not want me to tell you about them?And stifle ...
I have studied many timesThe marble which was chiseled for me —A boat with a furled sail at rest in ...
The cooper should know about tubs. But I learned about life as well, And you who loiter around these graves ...
Toward the lastThe truth of others was untruth to me;The justice of others injustice to me;Their reasons for death, reasons ...
To this generation I would say:Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.It may serve a turn in your ...
Not "a youth with hoary head and haggard eye,"But an old man with a smooth skinAnd black hair!I had the ...
Out of me unworthy and unknown The vibrations of deathless music; 'With malice toward none, with charity for all.' Out ...
I belonged to the church,And to the party of prohibition;And the villagers thought I died of eating watermelon.In truth I ...
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came I cried out in bitterness of soul: "O glorious republic now no ...
I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker, Smiter with whips and swords; I, hater of the breakers of the law; I, legalist, inexorable ...
My mother was for woman's rights And my father was the rich miller at London Mills. I dreamed of the ...
It never came into my mind Until I was ready to die That Jenny had loved me to death, with ...
I was the Widow McFarlane, Weaver of carpets for all the village. And I pity you still at the loom ...
A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at ...
I spent my money trying to elect you Mayor A. D. Blood. I lavished my admiration upon you, You were ...
I tried to win the nomination For president of the County-board And I made speeches all over the County Denouncing ...
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