What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,
Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?
(Lucinda Matlock)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
They have chiseled on my stone the words:'His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him
That nature might stand up and say to all the world,
This was a man.
Edgar Lee Masters
I awoke one morning with the love of God
Brimming over my heart, so I went to see Richard
To settle the fence in the spirit of Jesus Christ.
Edgar Lee Masters
Break them and dispel the witchcraft
Of thinking your tub is life!
Edgar Lee Masters
The pyramid of my life was nought but a dune,
Barren and formless, spoiled at last by the storm.
Edgar Lee Masters
There is the silence of a great hatred,
And the silence of a great love,
And the silence of an embittered friendship.
Edgar Lee Masters
Pure or fool, for it makes no matter,
It's blood that calls to our blood.
Edgar Lee Masters
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