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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: MASTERS, EDGAR LEE Matches Found: 427 Masters, Edgar Lee Poet's Biography 427 poems available by this author A CERTAIN POET ON THE DEBATES Poem Text First Line: Why do I speak with such authority? Last Line: And drop a tear on all the sorry waste. Subject(s): Lincoln-douglas Debates; Slavery; Serfs A LADY Poem Text First Line: She sleeps beneath a canopy of carnation silk Last Line: And the weariness of futile flesh! Subject(s): God; Women A MAN CHILD IS BORN (1809) Poem Text First Line: The wind blows through the chinks it's snowing too Last Line: With logs to mend the fire! Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States A MAN CHILD IS BORN (1839) Poem Text First Line: After such pain this child against my breast! Last Line: Look at that darling face -- it must be so! Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865) A REPUBLIC! Poem Text First Line: Her faith abandoned and her place despised Last Line: Her gland pituitary being lost. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; United States; America ACHILLES DEATHERIDGE First Line: Your name is achilles deatheridge? ADELAIDE AND JOHN WILKES BOOTH Poem Text First Line: Yes, even this you can surmount by art Last Line: (he goes out.) Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865) ALL LIFE IN A LIFE Poem Text First Line: His father had a large family Subject(s): Family Life; City & Town Life; Wealth; Social Protest; Capital Punishment; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty ARABEL Poem Text First Line: Twists of smoke rise from the limpness of jeweled fingers Subject(s): Love; Poetry & Poets; Books; Youth; Reading AT SAGAMORE HILL Poem Text First Line: All things proceed as though the stage were set Last Line: As you desired them in these sixty years. Subject(s): Home; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) AT THE MERMAID TAVERN (APRIL 10, 1613) Poem Text First Line: Yes, so I said: 'twas labored 'cataline' Last Line: And then I go. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists BETRAND AND GOURGAUD TALK OVER OLD TIMES Poem Text First Line: Gourgaud, these tears are tears - but look, this laugh Last Line: Drink to me, clasp my hand, embrace me, friend. Subject(s): France; Napoleon I (1769-1821) BLACK EAGLE RETURNS TO ST. JOE Poem Text First Line: This way and that way measuring Last Line: I was a swift runner whom they tripped. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America BONNYBELL: THE BUTTERFLY Poem Text First Line: As I shall die, let your belief Last Line: Souls must go where the lode-star lures. Subject(s): Love BONNYBELL: THE GRAY SPHEX Poem Text First Line: Bonnybell comes to the room of her lover Last Line: She wounds in the war. Subject(s): War; Women - Heroes BOOTH'S PHILIPPI Poem Text First Line: If this must be, I take it. Be a man Last Line: (he dies.) Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865) BOTANICAL GARDENS Poem Text First Line: He follows me no more, I said, nor stands Last Line: "there shall be springs and springs!" Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening BOYHOOD FRIENDS Poem Text First Line: Old adam warfield had an only son Last Line: A sigh of harold, looking at the stars. Subject(s): Friendship BRUTUS AND ANTONY Poem Text First Line: How shall I write this out? I do not write Last Line: Than brutus left it. Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Brutus, Marcus Junius (85 B.c.- 42 B.c.) ; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark BRUTUS LIVES AGAIN IN BOOTH Poem Text First Line: What time is it? Last Line: (he rushes off. Great confusion.) Subject(s): Assassination; Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Ford's Theater, Washington, D.c.; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON BY THE SEA CANTICLE OF THE RACE Poem Text First Line: How beautiful are the bodies of men Last Line: The flesh made the word! Subject(s): Mankind; Women; Human Race CELSUS AT HADRIAN'S VILLA Poem Text First Line: This is the place, my friend aristo. Here Last Line: And watch the waterfalls, and have some wine. Subject(s): Celsus (2d Century) CHARLOTTE CORDAY (REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL, JULY 17, 1793) Poem Text First Line: Where is your home? Last Line: I am content. Subject(s): Corday, Charlotte (1768-1793) CHRISTMAS AT INDIAN POINT Poem Text First Line: Who is that calling through the night Last Line: "and sobbed and sobbed, 'o emily.'" Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The CITIES OF THE PLAIN Poem Text First Line: Where are the cabalists, the insidious committees Last Line: We wish we had our little sodom back! Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life COME, REPUBLIC First Line: Come! United states of america COMPARATIVE CRIMINALS Poem Text First Line: Marion strode, my friend, a chanting voice Last Line: We shook the hand of ott and turned away! CONFUCIUS AND TSZE-LU First Line: Confucius was drinking wine with tsze-lu DAHLIAS Poem Text First Line: The mad wind is the warden Last Line: Blossom and leaf and seed. Subject(s): Dahlias DEAR OLD DICK Poem Text First Line: Said dear old dick Last Line: "to wait on st. Peter world without end." Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Waiters & Waitresses; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry DELILAH Poem Text First Line: Because thou wast most delicate Last Line: A woman fair to look upon. Subject(s): Delilah (bible); Samson; Women In The Bible DEMOS THE DESPOT Poem Text First Line: Not in the circus before your thumbs inverted Last Line: The frog marsh and the weedy plain! DIALOGUE AT PERKO'S Poem Text First Line: Look here, jack Last Line: Dinah, call a cab! DOMEDAY BOOK: JOHN CAMPBELL AND CARL EATON Poem Text First Line: Carl eaton and john campbell both were raised Last Line: In fairbanks, and the talk is in these words: Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Life; Love DOMEDAY BOOK: MIRIAM FAY'S LETTER Poem Text First Line: Elenor murray asked to go in training Last Line: Who ran the times. Subject(s): Evil; Kisses; Letters; Life; Love DOMESDAY BOOK: ALMA BELL TO THE CORONER Poem Text First Line: What my name is, or where I live, or if Last Line: Of gregory wenner first: Subject(s): Life; Love; Soul; Teaching & Teachers; Undertakers; Educators; Professors DOMESDAY BOOK: ANTON SOSNOWSKI Poem Text First Line: Anton sosnowski, from the shakespeare school Last Line: And what makes poverty and waste in lives: Subject(s): Anger; Faces; Hate; War DOMESDAY BOOK: ARCHIBALD LOWELL Poem Text First Line: Archibald lowell, owner of the times Last Line: And brings them to the jury in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; News; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: AT FAIRBANKS Poem Text First Line: Bill, look here! Here's the times. You see this picture Last Line: Within the banner: to be brave, nor flinch. Subject(s): Death; News; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: AT NICE Poem Text First Line: Dear, let me tell you, safe beside you now Last Line: To coroner merival in a leisure hour: Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; France; Guns; Love; Soldiers; Wine DOMESDAY BOOK: BARRETT BAYS Poem Text First Line: I was walking by the river, barrett said Last Line: Came in and led him from the jury room. Subject(s): France; Life; Love; Past; War DOMESDAY BOOK: CHARLES WARREN, THE SHERIFF Poem Text First Line: I have seen twenty men hanged, hung myself Last Line: "I tell you what I said to her. It's this:" Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Murder; Police; Quarrels; Arguments; Disagreements DOMESDAY BOOK: CONSIDER FREELAND Poem Text First Line: Look at that tract of land there -- five good acres Last Line: Of elenor murray: -- Subject(s): Life; Love; War; Youth DOMESDAY BOOK: DOMESDAY BOOK Poem Text First Line: Take any life you choose and study it Last Line: And of her birth: -- . . . Subject(s): Books; Death; Life; Loss; Soul; Reading; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. BURKE Poem Text First Line: You've heard of potters' wheels and potters' hands Last Line: This story to the coroner. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Doctors; Theology DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. TRACE TO THE CORONER Poem Text First Line: I cannot tell you, coroner, the cause / of death of elenor murray, not until Last Line: The mother of this man in tokio. Subject(s): Autopsies; Death; Hearts; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: ELENOR MURRAY Poem Text First Line: Coroner merival took the hundred letters Last Line: And at his house they talked the case and supped. Subject(s): Dreams; Friendship; Letters; Love; Soul; Nightmares DOMESDAY BOOK: FATHER WHIMSETT Poem Text First Line: Looking like raphael's perugino, eyes Last Line: The two priests rose and left the room together. Subject(s): Absolution; Churches; Clergy; Love; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY Poem Text First Line: Elenor murray, daughter of henry murray Last Line: And know her better, knowing merival. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Fate; Hunting; Life; Dead, The; Destiny; Hunters DOMESDAY BOOK: GEORGE JOSLIN ON LA MENKEN Poem Text First Line: Here, coroner merival, look at this picture! Last Line: And reads this letter to the jurymen: Subject(s): Beauty; Life; Soul; Tears DOMESDAY BOOK: GOTTLIEB GERALD Poem Text First Line: I knew her, why of course. And you want me? Last Line: This talk of lilli alm and ludwig haibt: Subject(s): Death; Hate; Home; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs DOMESDAY BOOK: GREGORY WENNER Poem Text First Line: Gregory wenner's brother married the mother Last Line: A secret long concealed: -- Subject(s): Death; God; Love; Marriage; Passion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: HENRY BAKER, AT NEW YORK Poem Text First Line: One partner may consult another -- james Last Line: And chase came to the coroner and spoke: Subject(s): Death; Letters; New York City; Undertakers; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple DOMESDAY BOOK: HENRY MURRAY Poem Text First Line: Henry murray, father of elenor murray Last Line: The while she spoke: Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Marriage; Youth; Dead, The; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: IRMA LEESE Poem Text First Line: Elenor murray landing in new york Last Line: Before the jury. Here is what she wrote: -- Subject(s): Death; Letters; Love; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: JANE FISHER Poem Text First Line: Jane fisher says to susan hamilton / that coroner has no excuse to bring Last Line: His talk with lawyer baker in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Law & Lawyers; Life; Love; Dead, The; Attorneys DOMESDAY BOOK: JOHN SCOFIELD Poem Text First Line: You see I worked for arthur fouche, he said Last Line: Spoke to them in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: LILLI ALM Poem Text First Line: In lola schaefer's studio in the tower Last Line: Is lodged in father whimsett's heart or words. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Confessions; Religion; Soul; Theology DOMESDAY BOOK: LOVERIDGE CHASE Poem Text First Line: Here is the secret of the death of elenor Last Line: Of elenor murray and their days at nice: Subject(s): Death; Letters; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: MRS. GREGORY WENNER Poem Text First Line: Gregory wenner's wife was by the sea Last Line: To the coroner and the jury in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love; Dead, The; Burials DOMESDAY BOOK: MRS. MURRAY Poem Text First Line: I think, she said at first / my daughter did not kill herself. I'm sure Last Line: And talk about the case. Subject(s): Daughters; Family Life; Life; Marriage; Suicide; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: REV. PERCY FERGUSON Poem Text First Line: The rev. Percy ferguson, patrician / vicar of christ, companion of the strong Last Line: The coroner and jury sat and heard: -- Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Grief; Life; Love; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DOMESDAY BOOK: THE CONVENT Poem Text First Line: Elenor murray stole away from nice Last Line: Out of a curious but hardened heart. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Letters; Life; Nuns; Prayer; Italians DOMESDAY BOOK: THE CORONER Poem Text First Line: Merival, of a mother fair and good Last Line: Tells merival this story: Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Undertakers; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: THE GOVERNOR Poem Text First Line: I'm home at last. How long were you asleep? Last Line: To coroner merival on the street one day: Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Life; Politics & Government; Attorneys DOMESDAY BOOK: THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT Poem Text First Line: Why don't they come to me to find the cause Last Line: She talks with susan hamilton like this: Subject(s): Death; Letters; Nations; War; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: THE JURY DELIBERATES Poem Text First Line: The jurymen are seated here and there Last Line: Your names, and I'll return it to the clerk. Subject(s): Death; Justice; Life; United States; Dead, The; America DOMESDAY BOOK: THE VERDICT Poem Text First Line: An inquisition taken for the people Last Line: To look on arielle, who had written him. Subject(s): Death; Justice; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: WIDOW FORTELKA Poem Text First Line: Marie fortelka, widow, mother of josef Last Line: To swim to shore! He couldn't walk the waves! Subject(s): Death; Life; News; Soul; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The DR. SCUDDER'S CLINICAL LECTURE Poem Text First Line: I lectured last upon the morbus sacer Last Line: At their convenience in the laboratory. Subject(s): Physiology DRAW THE SWORD, O REPUBLIC Poem Text First Line: By the blue sky of a clear vision Last Line: Draw the sword! Subject(s): Holidays; Veterans Day EXCLUDED MIDDLE Poem Text First Line: Out of the mercury shimmer of glass Last Line: Live now or die indeed! FRANCE Poem Text First Line: France fallen! France arisen! France of the brave! Last Line: Incarnate with the soul of lafayette. Subject(s): France FRIAR YVES Poem Text First Line: Said friar yves: 'god will bless Last Line: Friar yves awoke and wept. FROM THE AGES WITH A SMILE Poem Text First Line: How did the sculptor, voltaire, keep you quiet and posed Last Line: Front the ages with a smile! Subject(s): Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De GOD AND MY COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: He had the bluest eyes I ever saw Last Line: "to get some cigarettes and some shaving blades." Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Soldiers; World War I; First World War HEAVEN IS BUT THE HOUR Poem Text First Line: Eyes wide for wisdom, calm for joy or pain Last Line: My sorrow and as well my hope. HIP LUNG ON YUAN CHANG Poem Text First Line: You like store? You like chinese tea? You like me? Last Line: Bout budda, kliste -- smoke? Eh? I PAY MY DEBT FOR LAFAYETTE AND ROCHAMBEAU' Poem Text First Line: Eagle, whose fearless Last Line: Love frees the world!... Subject(s): France; Freedom; Rockwell, Kiffin Yates (1892-1916); World War I; Liberty; First World War I WILL STAND GUARD Poem Text Subject(s): Love IN MEMORY OF BRYAN LATHROP Poem Text First Line: So in pieria, from the wedded bliss Subject(s): Lathrop, Bryan (1844-1916) IN THE GARDEN AT THE DAWN HOUR Poem Text First Line: I arise in the silence of the dawn hour Last Line: In the silence of the dawn hour! Subject(s): Dawn; Silence; Sunrise INVOCATION TO THE GODS Poem Text First Line: Goddess, born of the mother of all things, the sea Last Line: And take us to olympus! JAKE MANN Poem Text First Line: I'm sending here jake mann's obituary Subject(s): Death; Alcohol And Alcoholics; Law & Lawyers; Dead, The; Attorneys JOHN WILKES BOOTH AT THE FARM (JANUARY 12, 1848) Poem Text First Line: Mother, I'm breathless! I have seen a man Last Line: I am so frightened. Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865) JOHNNY APPLESEED Poem Text First Line: When the air of october is sweet and cold as Last Line: Apples, freedom, heaven, said peter van zylen. Subject(s): Chapman, John (1774-1845) JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH Poem Text First Line: You are a doctor? Ill? I'm very ill Last Line: (he dies.) Subject(s): Booth, Junius Brutus (1796-1852) KEATS TO FANNY BRAWNE Poem Text First Line: Fanny! If in your arms my soul could slip Last Line: Who once desired you, but desire no more! Subject(s): Brawne, Fanny; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets LOST ORCHARD First Line: Over a lost orchard I have strayed Last Line: Over the treetops to predestined mates Subject(s): Orchards LOVE AND BEAUTY First Line: There is a waste of sundown flags MADELINE First Line: I almost heard your little heart MILWAUKEE AVENUE Poem Text First Line: Asphering sky, like a drop curtain hangs Subject(s): Chicago; City & Town Life MIND FLYING AFAR Poem Text First Line: What a moment of strange dreaming! Quickly Subject(s): Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Dreams; Nightmares MIRAGE OF THE DESERT Poem Text First Line: Well, there's the brazier set by the temple door Last Line: But never the desert's spectre, cup of love! MONODY ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM MARION REEDY Poem Text First Line: Son of the freer republic, child of a day Last Line: The western star! Subject(s): Reedy, William Marion (1862-1920) MORE LICHEE-NUT POEMS, SELS. MY DOG PONTO Poem Text First Line: If I say you come, ponto, want some meat Subject(s): Animals MY DOG PONTO First Line: If I say you come, ponto, want some meat Subject(s): Animals MY LIGHT WITH YOURS Poem Text First Line: When the sea has devoured the ships Last Line: In the light of lights forever! Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of NATURE Poem Text First Line: Seas, mountains, rivers, hills, forests and plains Last Line: Rock us eternally under the infinite sky. Subject(s): Nature NEANDERTHAL Poem Text First Line: Then what is life?' I cried. And with that cry Last Line: The voice which left me calm and unafraid. NEBUCHADNEZZAR: OR EATING GRASS Poem Text First Line: Nebuchadnezzar the king called ha-rashang Last Line: This peace with heaven. Subject(s): Nebuchadrezzar Ii (630-562 B.c.) NEW SPOON RIVER, SELS. Subject(s): Unknown Soldier O GLORIOUS FRANCE Poem Text First Line: You have become a forge of snow white fire Last Line: Grown weary cries enough! Subject(s): World War I - France O YOU YOUNG EAGLES! Last Line: For the ecstasy of the battles %on your way to the sun Subject(s): Freedom O, MY FRIEND Poem Text Last Line: That somewhere I can laugh and talk long hours with you again Subject(s): Friendship ODE TO AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: Season of gusty days and cloudy nights Subject(s): Autumn; Fall PENTHEUS IN THESE STATES Poem Text First Line: Muse of the meditative hymn, and muse Last Line: Nor strew you limb from limb along the way? PETERKIN Poem Text First Line: Peterkin! No wisdom of our life accords Subject(s): Friendship; Absence; Separation; Isolation PHILIPPINE CONQUEST First Line: It is the army of an empire not a republic Last Line: As the englishman is fighting for the banks of london Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) POOR PIERROT Poem Text First Line: Here far away from the city, here by the yellow dunes Last Line: Be one with the sands of the shore and one with the sea. PUYE First Line: City that vanished before the spaniard trod RECESSIONAL Poem Text First Line: Even as I see, and share with you seeing Last Line: Look you, I will go pray! Subject(s): War RICHARD BOOTH TO HIS SON JUNIUS BRUTUS Poem Text First Line: So you're to play campillo, all in spite Last Line: And may you fail at acting and return. Subject(s): Booth, Junius Brutus (1796-1852) SAMUEL BUTLER ET AL. Poem Text First Line: Let me consider your emergence Last Line: And back of you the furies! SEVEN CITIES OF AMERICA First Line: How they walled the sea, and felled the woods Subject(s): Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago SILENCE Poem Text First Line: I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea Last Line: As we approach them. Subject(s): Silence; Silence SIMON SURNAMED PETER Poem Text First Line: Time that has lifted you over them all Last Line: Gnarled branch of the vine! Subject(s): Apostles; Bible; Disciples, Twelve SIR GALAHAD Poem Text First Line: I met hosea job on randolph street Last Line: And hurried back to alden for the train. SOMETHING BEYOND THE HILL Poem Text First Line: To a western breeze Last Line: For the voice. SONG OF MEN Poem Text First Line: How beautiful are the bodies of men Subject(s): Men; Body, Human; Women; God SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: A. D. BLOOD Poem Text First Line: If you in the village think that my work was a good one Last Line: Nightly make my grave their unholy pillow? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AARON HATFIELD Poem Text First Line: Better than granite, spoon river Last Line: And the consolation of tongues of flame! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ABEL MELVENY Poem Text First Line: I bought every kind of machine that's known Last Line: That life had never used. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ADAM WEIRAUCH Poem Text First Line: I was crushed between altgeld and armour Last Line: That ruined me? Subject(s): Corruption In Politics SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALBERT SCHIRDING Poem Text First Line: Jonas keene thought his lot a hard one Last Line: The feeling that I was not worthy of her finished me. Subject(s): Ambition; Suicide SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALEXANDER THROCKMORTON Poem Text First Line: In youth my wings were strong and tireless Last Line: Genius is wisdom and youth. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALFRED MOIR Poem Text First Line: Why was I not devoured by self-contempt Last Line: As I read it over and over? Subject(s): Books; Reading SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALONZO CHURCHILL Poem Text First Line: They laughed at me as 'prof. Moon' Last Line: Of what the drama means. Subject(s): Stars SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMANDA BARKER Poem Text First Line: Henry got me with child Last Line: That he slew me to gratify his hatred. Subject(s): Hate SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMELIA GARRICK Poem Text First Line: Yes, here I lie close to a stunted rose bush Last Line: That robs it of complete triumph. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMI GREEN Poem Text First Line: Not 'a youth with hoary head and haggard eye' Last Line: Is just arrested growth. Subject(s): Youth SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMOS SIBLEY Poem Text First Line: Not character, not fortitude, not patience Last Line: If I make money thus, I will divorce her. Subject(s): Divorce SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ANDY, THE NIGHT-WATCH Poem Text First Line: In my spanish cloak Last Line: And no eye needs to guard. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ANER CLUTE Poem Text First Line: Over and over they used to ask me Last Line: That makes the boy what he is. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ANNE RUTLEDGE Poem Text First Line: Out of me unworthy and unknown Last Line: From the dust of my bosom! Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Rutledge, Ann (1813-1855); Dead, The SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ANTHONY FINDLAY Poem Text First Line: Both for the country and for the man Last Line: To use on the dull and weak. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ARCHIBALD HIGBIE Poem Text First Line: I loathed you, spoon river. I tried to rise above you Last Line: Rooted out of my soul? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ARLO WILL Poem Text First Line: Did you ever see an alligator Last Line: To the final flame! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: BARNEY HAINSFEATHER Poem Text First Line: If the excursion train to peoria Last Line: But to be buried here -- ach! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Jews; Graveyards; Judaism SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: BARRY HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: The very fall my sister nancy knapp Last Line: And I killed her. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: BATTERTON DOBYNS Poem Text First Line: Did my widow flit about Last Line: "here's a nickel for your trouble." SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: BENJAMIN FRASER Poem Text First Line: Their spirits beat upon mine Last Line: Nor the rhythm of life is known. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: BENJAMIN PANTIER Poem Text First Line: Together in this grave lie benjamin pantier, attorney at law Last Line: Our story is lost in silence. Go by, mad world! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: BERT KESSLER Poem Text First Line: I winged my bird Last Line: When I fell limp in the grass. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: BLIND JACK Poem Text First Line: I had fiddled all day at the county fair Last Line: And hear him sing of the fall of troy. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: BUTCH WELDY Poem Text First Line: After I got religion and steadied down SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: C. C. CULBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Is it true, spoon river Last Line: And memorial tablets are erected. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CALVIN CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: Ye who are kicking against fate Last Line: So as to make you jessamine or wistaria? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CAPTAIN ORLANDO KILLION Poem Text First Line: Oh, you young radicals and dreamers Last Line: And a captain in the army? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CARL HAMBLIN Poem Text First Line: The press of the spoon river clarion was wrecked Last Line: "but the multitude saw why she wore the bandage." Subject(s): Chicago; Haymarket Square Riot; Newspapers; Social Protest; Journalism; Journalists SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CAROLINE BRANSON Poem Text First Line: With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked Last Line: Save me, shelley! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CASSIUS HUEFFER Poem Text First Line: They have chiseled on my stone the words Last Line: Graven by a fool! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CHARLES WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: The pine woods on the hill Last Line: Be brave, beloved! Variant Title(s): The Hill SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CHARLIE FRENCH Poem Text First Line: Did you ever find out Last Line: What chum of mine could have done it? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CHASE HENRY Poem Text First Line: In life I was the town drunkard Last Line: Which bring honor to the dead, who lived in shame. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CLARENCE FAWCETT Poem Text First Line: The sudden death of eugene carman Last Line: And how I came to lie here. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: COLUMBUS CHENEY Poem Text First Line: This weeping willow! Last Line: As well as for us? Subject(s): Willow Trees SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CONRAD SIEBER Poem Text First Line: Not in that wasted garden Last Line: Of redder apples! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CONRAD SIEVER Poem Text First Line: Not in that wasted garden Subject(s): Apple Trees; Time SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: CONSTANCE HATELY Poem Text First Line: You praise my self-sacrifice, spoon river Last Line: With constant reminders of their dependence. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: COONEY POTTER Poem Text First Line: I inherited forty acres from my father Last Line: Brought me here ere I had reached my sixtieth year. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DAISY FRASER Poem Text First Line: Did you ever hear of editor whedon Last Line: To the school fund of spoon river! Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DANIEL M'CUMBER Poem Text First Line: When I went to the city, mary mcneely Last Line: To kiss the hem of your robe! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DAVIS MATLOCK Poem Text First Line: Suppose it is nothing but the hive Last Line: Or sleep is the golden goal. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DEACON TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: I belonged to the church Last Line: "spiritus frumenti." SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DILLARD SISSMAN Poem Text First Line: The buzzards wheel slowly Last Line: I am shaken as a banner! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DIPPOLD THE OPTICIAN Poem Text First Line: What do you see now? Last Line: Very well, we'll make the glasses accordingly. Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Sight; Spectacles SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DOC HILL Poem Text First Line: I went up and down the streets Last Line: Hiding herself, and her grief! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DOCTOR MEYERS Poem Text First Line: No other man, unless it was doc hill Last Line: And pneumonia finished me. Variant Title(s): Doctor Meyers SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DORA WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: When reuben pantier ran away and threw me Last Line: "implora eterna quiete." SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DORCAS GUSTINE Poem Text First Line: I was not beloved of the villagers Last Line: Berate me who will -- I am content. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DOW BRITT Poem Text First Line: Samuel is forever talking of his elm Last Line: Trying to grow. Subject(s): Elm Trees SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DR. SIEGFIED ISEMAN Poem Text First Line: I said when they handed me my diploma Last Line: By the upright federal judge! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EDITH CONANT Poem Text First Line: We stand about this place - we, the memories Last Line: In immeasurable weariness! Subject(s): Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EDITOR WHEDON Poem Text First Line: To be able to see every side of every question Last Line: And abortions are hidden. Subject(s): Editors; Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EDMUND POLLARD Poem Text First Line: I would I had thrust my hands of flesh Last Line: Kissing the queen-bee, life! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELIJAH BROWNING Poem Text First Line: I was among multitudes of children Last Line: Whosoever touches the star! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELIZABETH CHILDERS Poem Text First Line: Dust of my dust Last Line: Death is better than life! Subject(s): Stillbirth; Death - Childbirth SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELLIOTT HAWKINS Poem Text First Line: I looked like abraham lincoln Last Line: With the dust of my triumphant career? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELMER BARR Poem Text 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 SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELSA WERTMAN Poem Text First Line: I was a peasant girl from germany Last Line: That's my son! That's my son! Subject(s): Mothers; Sacrifices SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EMILY SPARKS Poem Text First Line: Where is my boy, my boy Last Line: Nothing but light! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ENGLISH THORNTON Poem Text First Line: Here! You sons of the men Last Line: Your city and your state. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ENOCH DUNLAP Poem Text First Line: How many times, during the twenty years Last Line: To go to the urinal! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EPILOGUE Poem Text First Line: A game of checkers? Last Line: Infinite life. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ERNEST HYDE Poem Text First Line: My mind was a mirror Last Line: And this is the silence of wisdom. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EUGENE CARMAN Poem Text First Line: Rhodes' slave! Selling shoes and gingham Last Line: From a broken vein in my head. Subject(s): Social Protest SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EUGENIA TODD Poem Text First Line: Have any of you, passers-by Last Line: Healed and glad in the morning! Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EZRA BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: A chaplain in the army Last Line: By resting upon itself. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FAITH MATHENY Poem Text First Line: At first you will know not what they mean Last Line: Reserved for god himself. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FATHER MALLOY Poem Text First Line: You are over there, father malloy Last Line: Peter the rock. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FELIX SCHMIDT Poem Text First Line: It was only a little house of two rooms Last Line: As christian dallman's tenant. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FIDDLER JONES Poem Text First Line: The earth keeps some vibration going Last Line: And not a single regret. Variant Title(s): Fiddler Jones Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Old Age SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FLETCHER MCGEE Poem Text First Line: She took my strength by minutes Last Line: And hunted me for life. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FLOSSIE CABANIS Poem Text First Line: From bindle's opera house in the village Last Line: And read these words. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FRANCIS TURNER Poem Text First Line: I could not run or play Last Line: It suddenly took flight. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FRANK DRUMMER Poem Text First Line: Out of a cell into this darkened space Last Line: The encyclopaedia britannica! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FRANKLIN JONES Poem Text First Line: If I could have lived another year Last Line: And sees the ax from the first! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GEORGE GRAY Poem Text First Line: I have studied many times Last Line: It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GEORGE TRIMBLE Poem Text First Line: Do you remember when I stood on the steps Last Line: And here I lie, unwept of all. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GEORGINE SAND MINER Poem Text First Line: A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me Last Line: A harlot in body and soul! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GODWIN JAMES Poem Text First Line: Harry wilmans! You who fell in a swamp Last Line: Behind the demoniac mask. Subject(s): Soldiers SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GRANVILLE CALHOUN Poem Text First Line: I wanted to be county judge Last Line: Looking at the old court-house? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GRIFFY THE COOPER Poem Text First Line: The cooper should know about tubs Last Line: And that you know life! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GUSTAV RICHTER Poem Text First Line: After a long day of work in my hot-houses Last Line: Clouds, eh! -- SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HAMILTON GREENE Poem Text First Line: I was the only child of frances harris of virginia Last Line: For what service I was to the people! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HAMLET MICURE Poem Text First Line: In a lingering fever many visions come to you Last Line: "was divine." SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HANNAH ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: I wrote him a letter asking him for old times' sake Last Line: And telling stories. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HARE DRUMMER Poem Text First Line: Do the boys and girls still go to siever's Last Line: The quiet water? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HARLAN SEWALL Poem Text First Line: You never understood, o unknown one Last Line: As of the hand that healed it. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HARMON WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: Out of the lights and roar of cities Last Line: Judge me this way, o world! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HAROLD ARNETT Poem Text First Line: I leaned against the mantel, sick, sick Last Line: When no soul may ever escape the eternal destiny of life? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HARRY CAREY GOODHUE Poem Text First Line: You never marveled, dullards of spoon river Last Line: Of the fights that I had lost. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HARRY WILMANS Poem Text First Line: I was just turned twenty-one Last Line: A flag! A flag! Subject(s): Patriotism; Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HENRY C. CALHOUN Poem Text First Line: I reached the highest place in spoon river Last Line: Wear the envenomed robe. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HENRY LAYTON Poem Text First Line: Whoever thou art who passest by Last Line: That left me a lifeless soul. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HENRY PHIPPS Poem Text First Line: I was the sunday school superintendent Last Line: Moved me on with a push. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Money SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HENRY TRIPP Poem Text First Line: The bank broke and I lost my savings Last Line: Who failed to fight it out. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HERBERT MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: All your sorrow, louise, and hatred of me Last Line: Which want us not. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HERMAN ALTMAN Poem Text First Line: Did I follow truth wherever she led Last Line: Of those for whom I lived. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HILDRUP TUBBS Poem Text First Line: I made two fights for the people Last Line: As he does a hog. Subject(s): Politics & Government SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HIRAM SCATES Poem Text First Line: I tried to win the nomination Last Line: Over the golden mountain. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HOD PUTT Poem Text First Line: Here I lie close to the grave Last Line: Sleep peacefully side by side. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HOMER CLAPP Poem Text First Line: Often aner clute at the gate Last Line: Of other men, making me feel like a man. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HON. HENRY BENNETT Poem Text First Line: It never came into my mind Last Line: That mount of brawn! That clownish soul! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HORTENSE ROBBINS Poem Text First Line: My name used to be in the papers daily Last Line: Or how often I took the cure at baden-baden! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: IDA CHICKEN Poem Text First Line: After I had attended lectures Last Line: For the water works of spoon river! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: IDA FRICKEY Poem Text First Line: Nothing in life is alien to you Last Line: Was only waiting for me. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: IMANUEL EHRENHARDT Poem Text First Line: I began with sir william hamilton's lectures Last Line: Who showed me a letter of john muir. Subject(s): Books; Reading SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: IPPOLIT KONOVALOFF Poem Text First Line: I was a gun-smith in odessa Last Line: To mould the metal over. Subject(s): Guns SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ISA NUTTER Poem Text First Line: Doc meyers said I had satyriasis Last Line: For the best and purest of women? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ISAIAH BEETHOVEN Poem Text First Line: They told me I had three months to live Last Line: Above the battlements over time! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: J. MILTON MILES Poem Text First Line: Whenever the presbyterian bell / was rung by itself Last Line: Nor even, at last, the voice that I should have known. Subject(s): Bells SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JACK MCGUIRE Poem Text First Line: They would have lynched me Last Line: And learned to read and write. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JACOB GODBEY Poem Text First Line: How did you feel, you libertarians Last Line: Rather than of the belly? Subject(s): Libertarianism SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JACOB GOODPASTURE Poem Text First Line: When fort sumter fell and the war came Last Line: Forgive the blindness of the departed owl. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JAMES GARBER Poem Text First Line: Do you remember, passer-by, the path Last Line: The loneliness of the soul! Subject(s): Soul SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JEDUTHAN HAWLEY Poem Text First Line: There would be a knock at the door Last Line: Stepped off with daisy fraser. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JEFFERSON HOWARD Poem Text First Line: My valiant fight! For I call it valiant Last Line: That no one would know of the fight I made. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JENNIE M'GREW Poem Text First Line: Not, where the stairway turns in the dark Last Line: And that I saw! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JEREMY CARLISLE Poem Text First Line: Passer-by, sin beyond any sin Last Line: Of life that is wholly life. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JIM BROWN Poem Text First Line: While I was handling dom pedro Last Line: They thought it a slam on colts. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOHN BALLARD Poem Text First Line: In the lust of my strength Last Line: And so I was creeping upon the secret, but -- SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOHN CABANIS Poem Text First Line: Neither spite, fellow citizens Last Line: In a world republic girdled! Subject(s): Politics & Government SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOHN HANCOCK OTIS Poem Text First Line: As to democracy, fellow citizens Last Line: From one suspender. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOHN HORACE BURLESON Poem Text First Line: I won the prize essay at school Last Line: "roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll!" SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOHN M. CHURCH Poem Text First Line: I was attorney for the 'q' Last Line: And a snake made a nest in my skull! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOHN WASSON Poem Text First Line: Oh! The dew-wet grass of the meadow in north carolina Last Line: Take it from mine! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers; American Flag SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOHNNIE SAYRE Poem Text First Line: Father, thou canst never know Last Line: "taken from the evil to come." SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JONAS KEENE Poem Text First Line: Why did albert schirding kill himself Last Line: Refusing medical aid. Subject(s): Suicide SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JONATHAN HOUGHTON Poem Text First Line: There is the caw of a crow Last Line: And himself desiring the hill! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JONATHAN SWIFT SOMERS Poem Text First Line: After you have enriched your soul Last Line: Life does not fiddle. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOSEPH DIXON Poem Text First Line: Who carved this shattered harp on my stone? Last Line: And use me again if I am worthy to use. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Lyres SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOSIAH TOMPKINS Poem Text First Line: I was well known and much beloved Last Line: He profited little by it. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JUDGE SELAH LIVELY Poem Text First Line: Suppose you stood just five feet two Last Line: That I made it hard for them? Subject(s): Size & Shape; Height SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JUDGE SOMERS Poem Text First Line: How does it happen, tell me Last Line: Has sown a flowering weed? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JUDSON STODDARD Poem Text First Line: On a mountain top above the clouds Last Line: "that rise almost to heaven?" SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JULIA MILLER Poem Text First Line: We quarreled that morning Last Line: "be with me in paradise." SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JULIAN SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Toward the last Last Line: Soar upward to the sun! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JUSTICE ARNETT Poem Text First Line: It is true, fellow citizens Last Line: And the little entries on them? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: KINSEY KEENE Poem Text First Line: Your attention, thomas rhodes, president of the bank Last Line: Upon my stone. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: KNOWLT HOHEIMER Poem Text First Line: I was the first fruits of the battle of missionary ridge Last Line: What do they mean, anyway? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LAMBERT HUTCHINS Poem Text First Line: I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk Last Line: Why, it wasn't worth a damn! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LE ROY GOLDMAN Poem Text First Line: What will you do when you come to die Last Line: To the court where you are a stranger! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LILLIAN STEWART Poem Text First Line: I was the daughter of lambert hutchins Last Line: Keeping house for father. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LOIS SPEARS Poem Text First Line: Here lies the body of lois spears Last Line: Glory to god in the highest. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LOUISE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Herbert broke our engagement of eight years Last Line: It is wiser than your soul's nature. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LUCINDA MATLOCK Poem Text First Line: I went to the dances at chandlerville Last Line: It takes life to love life. Variant Title(s): Lucinda Matlock Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LUCIUS ATHERTON Poem Text First Line: When my moustache curled Last Line: Drove me to the dregs of life. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LYDIA HUMPHREY Poem Text First Line: Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church Last Line: Democratized! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LYDIA PUCKETT Poem Text First Line: Knowlt hoheimer ran away to the war Last Line: Back of every soldier is a woman. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LYMAN KING Poem Text First Line: You may think, passer-by, that fate Last Line: And read the authentic message of his eyes. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MABLE OSBORNE Poem Text First Line: Your red blossoms amid green leaves Last Line: And left to die. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MAGRADY GRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Tell me, was altgeld elected governor? Last Line: On the hills! Subject(s): Altgeld, John Peter (1847-1902); Reform & Reformers SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MANY SOLDIERS Poem Text First Line: The idea danced before us as a flag Last Line: In the dust with milton's poems. Subject(s): Soldiers SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MARGARET FULLER BLACK Poem Text First Line: I would have been as great as george eliot Last Line: Sex is the curse of life! Variant Title(s): Margaret Fuller Slack SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MARIE BATESON Poem Text First Line: You observe the carven hand Last Line: Find the goal or lose it, according to your vision. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MARY MCNEELY Poem Text First Line: Passer-by, / to love is to find your own soul Last Line: Eternal peace! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MICKEY M'GREW Poem Text First Line: It was just like everything else in life Last Line: Through bellowing darkness! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MINERVA JONES Poem Text First Line: I am minerva, the village poetess Last Line: I hungered so for life! Variant Title(s): Minerva Jones SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. BENJAMIN PANTIER Poem Text First Line: I know that he told that I snared his soul Last Line: Back of his office. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. CHARLES BLISS Poem Text First Line: Reverend wiley advised me not to divorce him Last Line: Preachers and judges! Subject(s): Divorce SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. GEORGE REECE Poem Text First Line: To this generation I would say Last Line: "act well your part, there all the honor lies." SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. KESSLER Poem Text First Line: Mr. Kessler, you know, was in the army Last Line: Like something washed and ironed. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. MERRITT Poem Text First Line: Silent before the jury Last Line: Carried me out in a coffin. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. MEYERS Poem Text First Line: He protested all his life long Last Line: Love god and keep his commandments. Variant Title(s): Mrs. Meyers SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. PURKAPILE Poem Text First Line: He ran away and was gone for a year Last Line: Of his marital vow and duty. Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. SIBLEY Poem Text First Line: The secret of the stars, - gravitation Last Line: My secret: under a mound that you shall never find. Subject(s): Women SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: I was the milliner Last Line: Had been any the worse? Variant Title(s): Mrs. Williams Finds A Lover SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: NANCY KNAPP Poem Text First Line: Well, don't you see this was the way of it Last Line: While he wept like a freezing steer. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: NELLIE CLARK Poem Text First Line: I was only eight years old Last Line: The following winter. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: NICHOLAS BINDLE Poem Text First Line: Were you not ashamed, fellow citizens Last Line: Worshipped for the first time after his acquittal? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: OAKS TUTT Poem Text First Line: My mother was for woman's rights Last Line: "what is truth?'" Subject(s): Pilate, Pontius; Truth SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: OLLIE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Have you seen walking through the village Last Line: In death, therefore, I am avenged. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: OSCAR HUMMEL Poem Text First Line: I staggered on through darkness Last Line: Till I dropped down dead at his feet. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PAUL MCNEELY Poem Text First Line: Dear jane! Dear winsome jane! Last Line: Jane, dear jane? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PAULINE BARRETT Poem Text First Line: Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon's knife! Last Line: Dear, have you ever understood? Subject(s): Surgery SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PELEG POAGUE Poem Text First Line: Horses and men are just alike Last Line: He ran away and killed me. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PENNIWIT, THE ARTIST Poem Text First Line: I lost my patronage in spoon river Last Line: "when saying ""I except." Subject(s): Photography & Photographers SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PERCIVAL SHARP Poem Text First Line: Observe the clasped hands! Last Line: Which are my true epitaph, more lasting than stone. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text First Line: My father who owned the wagon-shop Last Line: Somewhere near rome. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PERRY ZOLL Poem Text First Line: My thanks, friends of the county scientific association Last Line: Deprive you of honor to yourselves. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PETIT THE POET Poem Text First Line: Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick Last Line: While homer and whitman roared in the pines? Variant Title(s): Petit, The Poet Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Social Protest SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PLYMOUTH ROCK JOE Poem Text First Line: Why are you running so fast hither and thither Last Line: Mixed with potato peelings and such into the trough! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PROFESSOR NEWCOMER Poem Text First Line: Everyone laughed at col. Prichard Last Line: But get food and shelter and procreate himself! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RALPH RHODES Poem Text First Line: All they said was true Last Line: They'll ship you back to spoon river. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: REBECCA WASSON Poem Text First Line: Spring and summer, fall and winter and spring Last Line: In the light of your face! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: REUBEN PANTIER Poem Text First Line: Well, emily sparks, your prayers were not wasted Last Line: Dear emily sparks! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: REV. ABNER PEET Poem Text First Line: I had no objection at all Last Line: And he burned them as waste paper. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: REV. LEMUEL WILEY Poem Text First Line: I preached four thousand sermons Last Line: Happy themselves, a credit to the village. Subject(s): Divorce SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RICHARD BONE Poem Text First Line: When I first came to spoon river Last Line: Or because he is influenced to hide it. Subject(s): Epitaphs SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ROBERT DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men Last Line: It does not devour other acorns. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ROBERT FULTON TANNER Poem Text First Line: If a man could bite the giant hand Last Line: Until your misery bores him. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ROBERT SOUTHEY BURKE Poem Text First Line: I spent my money trying to elect you mayor Last Line: To any man alive. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ROGER HESTON Poem Text First Line: Oh many times did ernest hyde and I Last Line: I fell just as she gored me to my death. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ROSCOE PURKAPILE Poem Text First Line: She loved me. Oh! How she loved me! Last Line: I was right. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ROSIE ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: I was sick, but more than that, I was mad Last Line: "I'd see my lover that night." SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ROY BUTLER Poem Text First Line: If the learned supreme court of illinois Last Line: Believed a word she said. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RUSSELL KINCAID Poem Text First Line: In the last spring I ever knew Last Line: Where it's neither earth nor heaven. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RUSSIAN SONIA Poem Text First Line: I, born in weimar Last Line: For thinking of the humorous thing called life. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: RUTHERFORD MCDOWELL Poem Text First Line: They brought me ambrotypes Last Line: Under the sun! Subject(s): Photography & Photographers; Pioneers SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SAM HOOKERY Poem Text First Line: I ran away from home with the circus Last Line: It was robespierre! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SAMUEL GARDNER Poem Text First Line: I who kept the greenhouse Last Line: Be larger than the life he has lived? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SARAH BROWN Poem Text First Line: Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree Last Line: But there is love. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SCHOLFIELD HURLEY Poem Text First Line: God! Ask me not to record your wonders Last Line: Slipping in and out between your fingers? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SCHROEDER THE FISHERMAN Poem Text First Line: I sat on the bank above bernadotte Last Line: I'd like to see it work! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SEARCY FOOTE Poem Text First Line: I wanted to go away to college Last Line: A joke on you, spoon river? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SEREPTA MASON Poem Text First Line: My life's blossom might have bloomed on all sides Last Line: That govern the processes of life. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SERSMITH THE DENTIST Poem Text First Line: Do you think that odes and sermons Last Line: Which must be propped with gold. Variant Title(s): Sexsmith The Dentist SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SETH COMPTON Poem Text First Line: When I died the circulating library Last Line: Who knows not what is false. Subject(s): Books; Reading SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SHACK DYE Poem Text First Line: The white men played all sorts of jokes on me Last Line: What moved you about spoon river. Subject(s): Practical Jokes; Racism; Pranks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: SILAS DEMENT Poem Text First Line: It was moon-light, and the earth sparkled Last Line: The past for the sake of the future. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: STATE'S ATTORNEY FALLAS Poem Text First Line: I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker Last Line: The vessels of your hand. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TENNESSEE CLAFLIN SHOPE Poem Text First Line: I was the laughing-stock of the village Last Line: Peace to all worlds! Subject(s): Soul SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE CIRCUIT JUDGE Poem Text First Line: Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions Last Line: Was innocent in soul compared with me. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE HILL Poem Text First Line: Where are elmer, herman, bert, tom, and charley Last Line: One time at springfield. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE SPOONIAD Poem Text First Line: Of john cabanis' wrath and of the strife Last Line: Bent on the SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE TOWN MARSHAL Poem Text First Line: The prohibitionists made me town marshal Last Line: Fourteen years were enough for killing me. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE UNKNOWN Poem Text First Line: Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknown Last Line: Of one whom life wounded and caged. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE VILLAGE ATHEIST Poem Text First Line: Ye young debaters over the doctrine Last Line: Shall possess it. Subject(s): Atheism SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THEODORE THE POET Poem Text First Line: As a boy, theodore, you sat for long hours Last Line: As the summer wanes. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THOMAS RHODES Poem Text First Line: Very well, you liberals Last Line: Even to the end. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THOMAS ROSS, JR. Poem Text First Line: This I saw with my own eyes Last Line: Only to be destroyed by my brother's ambition. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THOMAS TREVELYAN Poem Text First Line: Reading in ovid the sorrowful story of itys Last Line: To twitter amid cold winds and falling leaves! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TOM BEATTY Poem Text First Line: I was a lawyer like harmon whitney Last Line: Whining to try and try. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TOM MERRITT Poem Text First Line: At first I suspected something Last Line: As he aimed and fired at my heart. Subject(s): Murder; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: TRAINOR, THE DRUGGIST Poem Text First Line: Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist Last Line: Lived unwedded. Variant Title(s): Trainor, The Druggist SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: VOLTAIRE JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Why did you bruise me with your rough places Last Line: Amid ironical lightning! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: W. LLOYD GARRISON STANDARD Poem Text First Line: Vegetarian, non-resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a christian Last Line: Barren and formless, spoiled at last by the storm. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WALLACE FERGUSON Poem Text First Line: There at geneva where mt. Blanc floated above Last Line: Known as spoon river ages and ages vanished? SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WALTER SIMMONS Poem Text First Line: My parents thought that I would be Last Line: I didn't have the brains. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WASHINGTON MCNEELY Poem Text First Line: Rich, honored by my fellow citizens Last Line: O maternal earth, which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WEBSTER FORD Poem Text First Line: Do you remember, o delphic apollo Last Line: Delphic apollo! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WENDELL P. BLOYD Poem Text First Line: They first charged me with disorderly conduct Last Line: Just like him.) SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WIDOW MCFARLANE Poem Text First Line: I was the widow mcfarlane Last Line: And hate of it lays you in it! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLARD FLUKE Poem Text First Line: My wife lost her health Last Line: After that, all is blackness! SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLIAM AND EMILY Poem Text First Line: There is something about death Last Line: Like love itself! Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLIAM GOODE Poem Text First Line: To all in the village I seemed, no doubt Last Line: Were wanderings in the quest. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLIAM H. HERNDON Poem Text First Line: There by the window in the old house Last Line: Alone. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLIAM JONES Poem Text First Line: Once in a while a curious weed unknown to me Last Line: I have passed on the march eternal of endless life. Subject(s): Nature SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLIE METCALF Poem Text First Line: I was willie metcalf Last Line: Now I know. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLIE PENNINGTON Poem Text First Line: They called me the weakling, the simpleton Last Line: From me, a mustard seed. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: YEE BOW Poem Text First Line: They got me into the sunday-school Last Line: And no children shall worship at my grave. Subject(s): Asian Americans; Religious Discrimination; Religious Conflict SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ZENAS WITT Poem Text First Line: I was sixteen, and I had the most terrible dreams Last Line: Here on the hill by the river. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ZILPHA MARSH Poem Text First Line: At four o'clock in late october Last Line: What it is I see! SQUIRE BOWLING GREEN Poem Text First Line: You missed it - case all over! Lincoln's gone Last Line: Ten dollars, I believe, and went to springfield. Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States ST. DESERET Poem Text First Line: You wonder at my bright round eyes, my lips Last Line: No soul is ever free. STARVED ROCK First Line: As soul from whom companionships subside Last Line: Life's secret which is vanishment and change STATUE OF LIBERTY First Line: This bronze to liberty is loftier Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty SUNKEN REALMS Poem Text First Line: Forty fathoms beneath Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King SUPPLICATION Poem Text First Line: Have we not had enough of fire SUPPLICATION, SELS. First Line: Dost thou not see about our feet Subject(s): Religion SWEET CLOVER Poem Text First Line: Only a few plants up - and not a blossom Last Line: The doctor says he has tuberculosis. Subject(s): Clover THE AWAKENING Poem Text First Line: When you lie sleeping; golden hair Last Line: What though your heart should ache! Subject(s): Passion; Waking THE BISHOP'S DREAM OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE Poem Text First Line: A lassie sells the war cry on the corner Last Line: My friend and I arose and left the room. THE BLIND Poem Text First Line: Amid the din of cars and automobiles Last Line: "there never shall be eyes for me again?" Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped THE BURIAL OF BOSTON CORBETT (ONE WARDEN TO ANOTHER) Poem Text First Line: So this is what we bury? How his face Last Line: Should he be raised? Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Funerals; Burials THE CONVERSATION Poem Text First Line: You knew then - starting, let us say, with ether Subject(s): Life Sciences; Life THE DECISION (APRIL 14, 1861) Poem Text First Line: So there are five? Last Line: Call the troops! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE DUNES OF INDIANA Poem Text First Line: Under a sky as green as a juniper berry Last Line: Old memphis, or old bactria.... Subject(s): Indiana THE EIGHTH CRUSADE Poem Text First Line: June, but we kept the fire place piled with logs Last Line: "that man is crazy, ain't he? I'm afraid." THE END OF THE SEARCH Poem Text First Line: Said old king cole I know the banner Last Line: "and some grow tired and sleep." THE GRAND RIVER MARSHES Poem Text First Line: Silvers and purples breathing in a sky Last Line: A man-bestridden dragon fly! THE GREAT RACE PASSES Poem Text First Line: They were the fair-haired achaeans Last Line: The great race is passing. Subject(s): Modern Life THE INN Poem Text First Line: Low windows in the room Last Line: And pat the head of an honest dog. THE LAKE BOATS Poem Text First Line: In an old print Last Line: They are longing for the spring! Subject(s): Boats; Lakes; Pools; Ponds THE LANDSCAPE Poem Text First Line: You and your landscape! There it lies Last Line: Our landscape just a thing of shade. Subject(s): Landscape THE LETTER Poem Text First Line: What does one gain by living? What by dying Last Line: Communing as two memories with each other. THE LOOM Poem Text First Line: My brother, the god, and I grow sick Last Line: I see and believe. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Weaving & Weavers THE LOST ORCHARD Poem Text First Line: Loves and sorrows of those who lose an orchard Subject(s): Orchards THE NEW APOCRYPHA: ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA Poem Text First Line: Who is that coming? Look! They are bearing a body again Last Line: With the ghost of caesar's lust, and the mist of peter's faith. THE NEW APOCRYPHA: AT DECAPOLIS Poem Text First Line: I am a farmer and live Last Line: This is the devil that from you I cast. Variant Title(s): The Accusation THE NEW APOCRYPHA: BERENICE Poem Text First Line: How is it with this people? Last Line: Come sister, festus, to the banquet room. Subject(s): Berenice; Princess (28-79 A.d.) THE NEW APOCRYPHA: BUSINESS REVERSES Poem Text First Line: Everything! Counter and scales Last Line: In the land of galilee. Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE NEW APOCRYPHA: FIRST ENTRANTS Poem Text First Line: We know the game of lawyer and priest Last Line: And hound the harlots who see and believe. THE NEW APOCRYPHA: JOHN IN PRISON Poem Text First Line: John said to the jailer: 'where are my disciplines? Befriend Last Line: "shall we look for another to save us, or is he the one?" THE NEW APOCRYPHA: THE FIG TREE Poem Text First Line: With all of the rest of my troubles my fig tree's withered and gone Last Line: If this be the work of faith, then faith itself is a curse. Subject(s): Faith; Fig Trees; Belief; Creed THE NEW APOCRYPHA: THE GREAT MERGER Poem Text First Line: Philo, the worst has come Last Line: Of gods, who always die. THE NEW APOCRYPHA: THE SINGLE STANDARD Poem Text First Line: It was known through judea, we knew it Last Line: And lives with him still. THE NEW APOCRYPHA: THE TWO MALFACTORS Poem Text First Line: Ask matthew, or ask mark, and get the truth Last Line: Chapter in this poor world's hopeless hope. THE NEW APOCRYPHA: TRIBUTE MONEY Poem Text First Line: This is all of the story Last Line: Unknown to the heart of a child. THE PARTY Poem Text First Line: Our wishes not consulted whether Last Line: "and blessings on your way." THE PHILIPPINE CONQUEST First Line: It is the army of an empire not a republic Subject(s): Social Protest; Spanish-american War (1898) THE RETURN Poem Text First Line: When he returned he saw the porch at first Subject(s): Homecoming THE ROOM OF MIRRORS Poem Text First Line: I saw a room where many feet were dancing Last Line: What is this room of mirrors? Who can say? Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE SEVEN CITIES OF AMERICA First Line: How they walled the sea, and felled the woods Subject(s): Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago THE SPARROW HARK IN THE RAIN (ALEXANDER STEPHENS HEARS NEWS) Poem Text First Line: That's done! And well, I'd rather not have gone Last Line: And I arose and left. Subject(s): American Civil War; Stephens, Alexander Hamilton (1812-1883); United States - History THE STAR Poem Text First Line: I am a certain god Last Line: "and what shall I do?" Subject(s): Love; Stars THE STATUE OF LIBERTY Poem Text First Line: This bronze to liberty is loftier Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty THE WEDDING FEAST Poem Text First Line: Said the chief of the marriage feast to the groom Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Theology THE WORLD'S DESIRE Poem Text First Line: At philae, in the temple of isis Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE WORLD-SAVER Poem Text First Line: If the grim fates, to stave ennui Last Line: A man who has a theme the world despises! TO-MORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY Poem Text First Line: Well, then, another drink! Ben jonson knows Last Line: Let's walk and hear the lark. Subject(s): Birthdays; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Middle Age; Poetry & Poets TOWARD THE GULF; DEDICATED TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT Poem Text First Line: From the cordilleran highlands Last Line: Till east and west shall be one in the west of heaven and earth! Subject(s): United States; America ULYSSES Poem Text First Line: Settled to evenings before the doorway Last Line: "go ask your mother penelope." Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus VICTOR RAFOLSKI ON ART Poem Text First Line: You dull goliaths clothed in coats of blue Last Line: Now do your worst to me! Subject(s): Art & Artists WAH TOM AND BLACK MAG Poem Text First Line: Hi ho left golden dragon WEDDING FEAST First Line: Said the chief of the marriage feast to the groom Last Line: Can come out of galilee! Subject(s): Bible; Religion WIDOW LA RUE Poem Text First Line: What will happen, widow la rue? Last Line: And didn't say good-bye. WIDOWS Poem Text First Line: For twenty years and more surviving after Last Line: Patience and the withered hands of toil Subject(s): Widows & Widowers WIDOWS First Line: For twenty years and more surviving after Last Line: They have but patience and a little room, %patience and the withered hands of toil Subject(s): Widows And Widowers WINTER GARDEN THEATRE Poem Text First Line: If you - if you had told me this before Last Line: Look on your face again! Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865) WORLDS Poem Text First Line: I have known or seen all the worlds of this world Subject(s): Life WORLDS First Line: I have known or seen all the worlds of this world YEE LEM OF KEOKUK Poem Text First Line: After yee lem of keokuk |
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