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Subject: MASTERS, EDGAR LEE (1869-1950)
Matches Found: 5

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` IF GRAY HAD HAD TO WRITE HIS ELEGY IN CEMETERY OF SPOON RIVER ..., by JOHN COLLINGS SQUIRE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
Last Line: There is an end to even the worst career!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Eagle, Solomon; Squire, J. C.
Subject(s): Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950)


STYX RIVER ANTHOLOGY, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I couldn't help weeping with delight
Last Line: I did.
Subject(s): Death; Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950); Rivers; Tears; Women; Dead, The


TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS EDGAR LEE MASTERS WOULD HANDLE IT. HILDA HYDE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The town thought me a model woman
Last Line: What a horrid thing I was when I got started.
Subject(s): Insanity; Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950); Murder; Orphans; Madness; Mental Illness; Foundlings


THE PRAIRIE BATTLEMENTS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here upon the prairie
Last Line: But fays upon the stairs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950)


TO EDGAR LEE MASTERS, by RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ever since you revealed to me
Last Line: So spoon river to the new world!
Subject(s): Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950)