Schroeder the Fisherman (Edgar Lee Masters Poems)
I sat on the bank above Bernadotte And dropped crumbs in the water, Just to see the minnows bump each ...
I sat on the bank above Bernadotte And dropped crumbs in the water, Just to see the minnows bump each ...
Often Aner Clute at the gate Refused me the parting kiss, Saying we should be engaged before that; And just ...
I was well known and much beloved And rich, as fortunes are reckoned In Spoon River, where I had lived ...
I would I had thrust my hands of flesh Into the disk-flowers bee-infested, Into the mirror-like core of fire Of ...
I who kept the greenhouse, Lover of trees and flowers, Oft in life saw this umbrageous elm, Measuring its generous ...
Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys, Son of the love of Tereus and Procne, slain For the guilty ...
The buzzards wheel slowly In wide circles, in a sky Faintly hazed as from dust from the road. And a ...
When my moustache curled, And my hair was black, And I wore tight trousers And a diamond stud, I was ...
I staggered on through darkness, There was a hazy sky, a few stars Which I followed as best I could. ...
Not in that wasted garden Where bodies are drawn into grass That feeds no flocks, and into evergreens That bear ...
I lost my patronage in Spoon River From trying to put my mind in the camera To catch the soul ...
There at Geneva where Mt. Blanc floated above The wine-hued lake like a cloud, when a breeze was blown Out ...
Did you ever see an alligator Come up to the air from the mud, Staring blindly under the full glare ...
This I saw with my own eyes: A cliff-swallow Made her nest in a hole of the high clay-bank There ...
Whoever thou art who passest by Know that my father was gentle, And my mother was violent, While I was ...
I was attorney for the "Q" And the Indemnity Company which insured The owners of the mine. I pulled the ...
I was the laughing-stock of the village, Chiefly of the people of good sense, as they call themselves -- Also ...
My thanks, friends of the County Scientific Association, For this modest boulder, And its little tablet of bronze. Twice I ...
I was among multitudes of children Dancing at the foot of a mountain. A breeze blew out of the east ...
It never came into my mind Until I was ready to die That Jenny had loved me to death, with ...
I preached four thousand sermons, I conducted forty revivals, And baptized many converts. Yet no deed of mine Shines brighter ...
The bank broke and I lost my savings. I was sick of the tiresome game in Spoon River And I ...
You never marveled, dullards of Spoon River, When Chase Henry voted against the saloons To revenge himself for being shut ...
They brought me ambrotypes Of the old pioneers to enlarge. And sometimes one sat for me- Some one who was ...
I began with Sir William Hamilton's lectures. Then studied Dugald Stewart; And then John Locke on the Understanding, And then ...
I was the Widow McFarlane, Weaver of carpets for all the village. And I pity you still at the loom ...
I was not beloved of the villagers, But all because I spoke my mind, And met those who transgressed against ...
I tried to win the nomination For president of the County-board And I made speeches all over the County Denouncing ...
Everyone laughed at Col. Prichard For buying an engine so powerful That it wrecked itself, and wrecked the grinder He ...
Tell me, was Altgeld elected Governor? For when the returns began to come in And Cleveland was sweeping the East, ...
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