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 ...
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when ...
You, if it fall to you to take From us the lamp that Athens gave, Fill it with mercy for ...
If the grim Fates, to stave ennui, Play whips for fun, or snares for game, The liar full of ease ...
Both for the country and for the man,And for a country as well as a man,'Tis better to be feared ...
After you have enriched your soulTo the highest point,With books, thought, suffering, the understanding of many personalities,The power to interpret ...
You may think, passer-by, that FateIs a pit-fall outside of yourself,Around which you may walk by the use of foresightAnd ...
To this generation I would say:Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.It may serve a turn in your ...
My mind was a mirror: It saw what it saw, it knew what it knew. In youth my mind was ...
I began with Sir William Hamilton's lectures. Then studied Dugald Stewart; And then John Locke on the Understanding, And then ...
Out of the lights and roar of cities, Drifting down like a spark in Spoon River, Burnt out with the ...
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came I cried out in bitterness of soul: "O glorious republic now no ...
Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys, Son of the love of Tereus and Procne, slain For the guilty ...
You may think, passer-by, that Fate Is a pit-fall outside of yourself, Around which you may walk by the use ...
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea, And the silence of the city when it ...
My mind was a mirror: It saw what it saw, it knew what it knew. In youth my mind was ...
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. It may serve a turn ...
After you have enriched your soul To the highest point, With books, thought, suffering, the understanding of many personalities, The ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Both for the country and for the man, And for a country as well as a man, 'Tis better to ...
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