Daniel M’Cumber (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
When I went to the city, Mary McNeely, I meant to return for you, yes I did. But Laura, my ...
When I went to the city, Mary McNeely, I meant to return for you, yes I did. But Laura, my ...
I won the prize essay at school Here in the village, And published a novel before I was twenty-five. I ...
Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree. The balmy air of spring whispers through the sweet ...
Well, don't you see this was the way of it: We bought the farm with what he inherited, And his ...
I was just turned twenty-one, And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent, Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House. "The honor ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire, A crucible of molten steel, O France! Your sons are stars who ...
Better than granite, Spoon River, Is the memory-picture you keep of me Standing before the pioneer men and women There ...
Knowlt Hoheimer ran away to the war The day before Curl Trenary Swore out a warrant through Justice Arnett For ...
Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, president of the bank; Coolbaugh Wedon, editor of the Argus; Rev. Peet, pastor of the leading ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge. When I felt the bullet enter my heart I ...
I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you, I was ashamed of you. I despised you As ...
Spring and Summer, Fall and Winter and Spring, After each other drifting, past my window drifting! And I lay so ...
Do you remember when I stood on the steps Of the Court House and talked free-silver, And the single-tax of ...
My valiant fight! For I call it valiant, With my father's beliefs from old Virginia: Hating slavery, but no less ...
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom, and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, ...
Passer-by, To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one. When the beloved one ...
Do you think that odes and sermons, And the ringing of church bells, And the blood of old men and ...
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