All your sorrow, Louise, and hatred of me
Sprang from your delusion that it was wantonness
Of spirit and contempt of your soul's rights
Which made me turn to Annabelle and forsake you.
(Herbert Marshall)
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And I said "What does God do with mountainsThat rise almost to heaven?
Edgar Lee Masters
We were married and lived together for seventy years,
Enjoying, working, raising the twelve children,
Eight of whom we lost
Ere I had reached the age of sixty.
Edgar Lee Masters
What will you do when you come to die,
If all your life long you have rejected Jesus,
And know as you lie there, He is not your friend?
Edgar Lee Masters
And then they arrested me as a witness,
And I lost my train and staid in Spoon River
To wage my battle of life to the end.
Edgar Lee Masters
The balmy air of spring whispers through the sweet grass,
The stars sparkle, the whippoorwill calls,
But thou grievest, while my soul lies rapturous
In the blest Nirvana of eternal light!
Edgar Lee Masters
She took my strength by the minutes,
She took my life by hours,
She drained me like a fevered moon
That saps the spinning world.
Edgar Lee Masters
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