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 ...
Beyond the gates of Hercules The seven builders took the stone, Spurned everywhere in days of ease, Long lying loose ...
Glorious daughter of time! Thou of the mild blue eye -- Thou of the virginal forehead --pallid, unfurrowed of tears-- ...
Two souls within this lunar cycle passed Beyond the curtained stage of life and time. One weary from long vigils, ...
From the wide miles of autumn corn, Here to this sun-lit hill, The wind wails for a hope forlorn, And ...
Oh Lord, when all our bones are thrust Beyond the gaze of all but Thine; And these blaspheming tongues are ...
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; ...
Old pioneers, how fare your souls to-day? They seem to be Imminent about this pastoral way, This sunny lea, The ...
When conquerors lift the bloody shield, Showing the fallen's ooze of life, And on a waste of blasted field Joy ...
I looked like Abraham Lincoln.I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship,But standing for the rights of property ...
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw meI went to Springfield. There I met a lush,Whose father just deceased left ...
Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered the world, Dead with ...
Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted,Your love was not all in vain.I owe whatever I was in lifeTo ...
They told me I had three months to live,So I crept to Bernadotte,And sat by the mill for hours and ...
They first charged me with disorderly conduct,There being no statute on blasphemy.Later they locked me up as insaneWhere I was ...
Grandmother! You who sang to green valleys,And passed to a sweet repose at ninety-six,Here is your little Rita at lastGrown ...
We stand about this place — we, the memories;And shade our eyes because we dread to read:"June 17th, 1884, aged ...
Do you think that odes and sermons,And the ringing of church bells,And the blood of old men and young men,Martyred ...
Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, president of the bank; Coolbaugh Wedon, editor of the Argus; Rev. Peet, pastor of the leading ...
If the learned Supreme Court of IllinoisGot at the secret of every caseAs well as it does a case of ...
She took my strength by minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon That ...
What do you see now? Globes of red, yellow, purple. Just a moment! And now? My father and mother and ...
I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you,I was ashamed of you. I despised youAs the place ...
The idea danced before us as a flag;The sound of martial music;The thrill of carrying a gun;Advancement in the world ...
I was the daughter of Lambert Hutchins,Born in a cottage near the grist-mill,Reared in the mansion there on the hill,With ...
There is the caw of a crow,And the hesitant song of a thrush.There is the tinkle of a cowbell far ...
I said when they handed me my diploma,I said to myself I will be goodAnd wise and brave and helpful ...
When I died, the circulating libraryWhich I built up for Spoon River,And managed for the good of inquiring minds,Was sold ...
Where is my boy, my boy —In what far part of the world?The boy I loved best of all in ...
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