Oaks Tutt (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
My mother was for woman's rights And my father was the rich miller at London Mills. I dreamed of the ...
My mother was for woman's rights And my father was the rich miller at London Mills. I dreamed of the ...
The cooper should know about tubs. But I learned about life as well, And you who loiter around these graves ...
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. ...
I belonged to the church, And to the party of prohibition; And the villagers thought I died of eating watermelon. ...
Toward the last The truth of others was untruth to me; The justice of others injustice to me; Their reasons ...
Out of me unworthy and unknown The vibrations of deathless music; 'With malice toward none, with charity for all.' Out ...
Do you think that odes and sermons, And the ringing of church bells, And the blood of old men and ...
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. It may serve a turn ...
Suppose it is nothing but the hive: That there are drones and workers And queens, and nothing but storing honey ...
Not "a youth with hoary head and haggard eye," But an old man with a smooth skin And black hair! ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire, A crucible of molten steel, O France! Your sons are stars who ...
To be able to see every side of every question; To be on every side, to be everything, to be ...
My parents thought that I would be As great as Edison or greater: For as a boy I made balloons ...
Why did you bruise me with your rough places If you did not want me to tell you about them? ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me -- A boat with a furled sail at ...
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