Davis Matlock (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
Suppose it is nothing but the hive:That there are drones and workersAnd queens, and nothing but storing honey —(Material things ...
Suppose it is nothing but the hive:That there are drones and workersAnd queens, and nothing but storing honey —(Material things ...
Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce himFor the sake of the children,And Judge Somers advised him the same.So we ...
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, born in WeimarOf a mother who was FrenchAnd German father, a most learned professor,Orphaned at fourteen years,Became a dancer, ...
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 ...
Did I follow Truth wherever she led,And stand against the whole world for a cause,And uphold the weak against the ...
After I got religion and steadied downThey gave me a job in the canning works,And every morning I had to ...
Here! You sons of the menWho fought with Washington at Valley Forge,And whipped Black Hawk at Starved Rock,Arise! Do battle ...
My parents thought that I would beAs great as Edison or greater:For as a boy I made balloonsAnd wondrous kites ...
I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men.If I saw a soul that was strongI wounded its pride ...
The very fall my sister Nancy KnappSet fire to the houseThey were trying Dr. DuvalFor the murder of Zora Clemens,And ...
The white men played all sorts of jokes on me.They took big fish off my hookAnd put little ones on, ...
Oh, you young radicals and dreamers,You dauntless fledglingsWho pass by my headstone,Mock not its record of my captaincy in the ...
I was the millinerTalked about, lied about,Mother of Dora,Whose strange disappearanceWas charged to her rearing.My eye quick to beautySaw much ...
I was a lawyer like Harmon WhitneyOr Kinsey Keene or Garrison Standard,For I tried the rights of property,Although by lamp-light, ...
Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel— Faint iambics that the ...
Suppose you stood just five feet two,And had worked your way as a grocery clerk,Studying law by candle lightUntil you ...
She loved me. Oh! how she loved me!I never had a chance to escapeFrom the day she first saw me.But ...
At first you will know not what they mean,And you may never know,And we may never tell you: —These sudden ...
I said when they handed me my diploma,I said to myself I will be goodAnd wise and brave and helpful ...
My wife lost her health,And dwindled until she weighed scarce ninety pounds.Then that woman, whom the menStyled Cleopatra, came along.And ...
When I first came to Spoon River I did not know whether what they told me Was true or false. ...
How many times, during the twenty yearsI was your leader, friends of Spoon River,Did you neglect the convention and caucus,And ...
Both for the country and for the man,And for a country as well as a man,'Tis better to be feared ...
Do the boys and girls still go to Siever'sFor cider, after school, in late September?Or gather hazel nuts among the ...
Why was I not devoured by self-contempt,And rotted down by indifferenceAnd impotent revolt like Indignation Jones?Why, with all of my ...
I bought every kind of machine that's known —Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers,Mills and rakes and ploughs and threshers —And all ...
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