Glorious France (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
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 ...
You have become a forge of snow-white fire,A crucible of molten steel, O France!Your sons are stars who cluster to ...
I was just turned twenty-one,And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent,Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House."The honor of the flag ...
They told me I had three months to live,So I crept to Bernadotte,And sat by the mill for hours and ...
Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon's knife!And almost a year to creep back into strength,Till the dawn ...
Their spirits beat upon mineLike the wings of a thousand butterflies.I closed my eyes and felt their spirits vibrating.I closed ...
Did you ever hear of Editor WhedonGiving to the public treasury any of the money he receivedFor supporting candidated for ...
The white men played all sorts of jokes on me.They took big fish off my hookAnd put little ones on, ...
Do the boys and girls still go to Siever'sFor cider, after school, in late September?Or gather hazel nuts among the ...
Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard oneBecause his children were all failures.But I know of a fate more trying ...
As to democracy, fellow citizens,Are you not prepared to admitThat I, who inherited riches and was to the manor born,Was ...
After I had attended lecturesAt our Chautauqua, and studied FrenchFor twenty years, committing the grammarAlmost by heart,I thought I'd take ...
They brought me ambrotypes Of the old pioneers to enlarge. And sometimes one sat for me- Some one who was ...
Your red blossoms amid green leaves Are drooping, beautiful geranium! But you do not ask for water. You cannot speak! ...
Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo, The sunset hour by the river, when Mickey M'Grew Cried, "There's a ghost," and ...
I sat on the bank above Bernadotte And dropped crumbs in the water, Just to see the minnows bump each ...
The pine woods on the hill, And the farmhouse miles away, Showed clear as though behind a lens Under a ...
God! ask me not to record your wonders, I admit the stars and the suns And the countless worlds. But ...
I wanted to go away to college But rich Aunt Persis wouldn't help me. So I made gardens and raked ...
You never marveled, dullards of Spoon River, When Chase Henry voted against the saloons To revenge himself for being shut ...
After I had attended lectures At our Chautauqua, and studied French For twenty years, committing the grammar Almost by heart, ...
As to democracy, fellow citizens, Are you not prepared to admit That I, who inherited riches and was to the ...
The white men played all sorts of jokes on me. They took big fish off my hook And put little ...
Did you ever hear of Editor Whedon Giving to the public treasury any of the money he received For supporting ...
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 ...
Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon's knife! And almost a year to creep back into strength, Till ...
They told me I had three months to live, So I crept to Bernadotte, And sat by the mill for ...
Do the boys and girls still go to Siever's For cider, after school, in late September? Or gather hazel nuts ...
Their spirits beat upon mine Like the wings of a thousand butterflies. I closed my eyes and felt their spirits ...
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