But not a cell in all the tree
Knew aught save that it thrilled with life,
Nor cared because the hammock fell
In the dust with Milton's poems.
(Many Soldiers)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
A beast of the field moans a few timesWhen death takes its young.
Edgar Lee Masters
I never saw any difference
Between playing cards for money
And selling real estate,
Practicing law, banking, or anything else.
Edgar Lee Masters
To be judged by you,
The soul of me hidden from you,
With its wound gangrened
By love for a wife who made the wound,
With her cold white bosom, treasonous, pure and hard,
Relentless to the last, when the touch of her hand,
At any time, might have cured me of the typhus,
Caught in the jungle of life where many are lost.
Edgar Lee Masters
But in taking life for myself,
In seizing and crushing their souls,
As a child crushes grapes and drinks
From its palms the purple juice,
I came to this wingless void,
Where neither red, nor gold, nor wine,
Nor the rhythm of life are known.
Edgar Lee Masters
You had cured my diseased soul.
Edgar Lee Masters
It is well to abstain from murder and lust,
To forgive, do good to others, worship God
Without graven images.
Edgar Lee Masters
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