At last brought here-
My boyhood home, you know-
Not even a little tablet in Chicago
To keep my name alive.
(John Horace Burleson)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
I ended up with forty acres;I ended up with a broken fiddle-
And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories.
Edgar Lee Masters
Thereby also living the life of a sneak-thief,
Poisoned with the anonymous words
Of your clandestine soul.
Edgar Lee Masters
But a man can never avenge himself
On the monstrous ogre Life.
Edgar Lee Masters
Your voice is very metallic this morning, Hortense Robbins --
Almost like a guinea hen's!
Edgar Lee Masters
Sweet it was to see the crowds about the lawns on the day of my funeral,
And hear them murmur their love and sorrow.
Edgar Lee Masters
And there is the silence of age,
Too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it
In words intelligible to those who have not lived
The great range of life.
Edgar Lee Masters
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