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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELMER BARR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What but the love of god could have softened Last Line: Repent, ye living ones, and rest with jesus. Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency | |||
WHAT but the love of God could have softened And made forgiving the people of Spoon River Toward me who wronged the bed of Thomas Merritt And murdered him beside? Oh, loving hearts that took me in again When I returned from fourteen years in prison! Oh, helping hands that in the church received me, And heard with tears my penitent confession, Who took the sacrament of bread and wine! Repent, ye living ones, and rest with Jesus. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FORGIVING MY FATHER by LUCILLE CLIFTON WHAT WE CARRY; FOR DONALD by DORIANNE LAUX THE MAN WITH THE HOE OUTWITTED by EDWIN MARKHAM LEAVING CHURCH EARLY by JOHN UPDIKE BALLAD OF THE GIBBET by FRANCOIS VILLON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALEXANDER THROCKMORTON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |
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