She took the pity from my heart,
And made it into smiles.
(Fletcher Mcgee)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
At last you get in-but you hear a step:The ogre, Life, comes into the room,
(He was waiting and heard the clang of the spring)
To watch you nibble the wondrous cheese,
And stare with his burning eyes at you,
And scowl and laugh, and mock and curse you,
Running up and down in the trap,
Until your misery bores him.
Edgar Lee Masters
I spun, I wove, I kept the house, I nursed the sick,
I made the garden, and for holiday
Rambled over the fields where sang the larks,
And by Spoon River gathering many a shell,
And many a flower and medicinal weed--
Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.
Edgar Lee Masters
And all we fiddlers, from highest to lowest,
Writers of music and tellers of stories
Sit at his feet,
And hear him sing of the fall of Troy.
Edgar Lee Masters
In death, therefore, I am avenged.
Edgar Lee Masters
Do not let the will play gardener to your soul
Unless you are sure
It is wiser than your soul's nature.
Edgar Lee Masters
I, lover of Nature, beloved for my love of her,
Held such converse afar with the great
Who knew her better than I.
Edgar Lee Masters
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