Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CONRAD SIEBER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS


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SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CONRAD SIEBER, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in that wasted garden
Last Line: Of redder apples!


NOT in that wasted garden
Where bodies are drawn into grass
That feeds no flocks, and into evergreens
That bear no fruit --
There where along the shaded walks
Vain sighs are heard,
And vainer dreams are dreamed
Of close communion with departed souls --
But here under the apple tree
I loved and watched and pruned
With gnarled hands
In the long, long years;
Here under the roots of this northern-spy
To move in the chemic change and circle of life,
Into the soil and into the flesh of the tree,
And into the living epitaphs
Of redder apples!





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