Butch Weldy (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
After I got religion and steadied down They gave me a job in the canning works, And every morning I ...
After I got religion and steadied down They gave me a job in the canning works, And every morning I ...
I was sixteen, and I had the most terrible dreams, And specks before my eyes, and nervous weakness. And I ...
Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist, What will result from compounding Fluids or solids. And who ...
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. It may serve a turn ...
Well, don't you see this was the way of it: We bought the farm with what he inherited, And his ...
I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men. If I saw a soul that was strong I wounded ...
Why did you bruise me with your rough places If you did not want me to tell you about them? ...
My valiant fight! For I call it valiant, With my father's beliefs from old Virginia: Hating slavery, but no less ...
I could not run or play In boyhood. In manhood I could only sip the cup, Not drink -- For ...
If you in the village think that my work was a good one, Who closed the saloons and stopped all ...
Ye young debaters over the doctrine Of the soul's immortality I who lie here was the village atheist, Talkative, contentious, ...
Why are you running so fast hither and thither Chasing midges or butterflies? Some of you are standing solemnly scratching ...
I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship, But standing for the rights ...
My life's blossom might have bloomed on all sides Save for a bitter wind which stunted my petals On the ...
I ran away from home with the circus, Having fallen in love with Mademoiselle Estralada, The lion tamer. One time, ...
There by the window in the old house Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley, My days of labor ...
They told me I had three months to live, So I crept to Bernadotte, And sat by the mill for ...
In my Spanish cloak, And old slouch hat, And overshoes of felt, And Tyke, my faithful dog, And my knotted ...
I went up and down the streets Here and there by day and night, Through all hours of the night ...
They have chiseled on my stone the words: 'His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him That ...
At first you will know not what they mean, And you may never know, And we may never tell you: ...
I bought every kind of machine that's known -- Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers, Mills and rakes and ploughs and threshers ...
I was only eight years old; And before I grew up and knew what it meant I had no words ...
Did you ever hear of Editor Whedon Giving to the public treasury any of the money he received For supporting ...
If the excursion train to Peoria Had just been wrecked, I might have escaped with my life -- Certainly I ...
The press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked, And I was tarred and feathered, For publishing this on the ...
At four o'clock in late October I sat alone in the country school-house Back from the road 'mid stricken fields, ...
On a mountain top above the clouds That streamed like a sea below me I said that peak is the ...
All your sorrow, Louise, and hatred of me Sprang from your delusion that it was wantonness Of spirit and contempt ...
I had fiddled all day at the county fair. But driving home "Butch" Weldy and Jack McGuire, Who were roaring ...
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