#Americans
Better than granite, Spoon River, Is the memory-picture you keep of… Standing before the pioneer men an… There at Concord Church on Commu… Speaking in broken voice of the pe…
I lost my patronage in Spoon Rive… From trying to put my mind in the… To catch the soul of the person. The very best picture I ever took Was of Judge Somers, attorney at…
Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and… Argue about the freedom of the wil… My favorite metaphor was Prickett… Roped out to grass, and free you k… As the length of the rope.
’Twas the shrunken soul of the tra… That whined in a coign of the dark… And the fiends were aroused from s… When Cerberus began to bark. ‘Methought that I spoke’ said Jul…
I would have been as great as Geo… But for an untoward fate. For look at the photograph of me m… Chin resting on hand, and deep-set… Gray, too, and far-searching.
Harry Wilmans! You who fell in a… Near Manila, following the flag, You were not wounded by the greatn… Or destroyed by ineffectual work, Or driven to madness by Satanic s…
“What will you do when you come to… If all your life long you have rej… And know as you lie there, He is… Over and over I said, I, the revi… Ah, yes! but there are friends and…
I tried to win the nomination For president of the County-board And I made speeches all over the… Denouncing Solomon Purple, my riv… As an enemy of the people,
In my Spanish cloak, And old slouch hat, And overshoes of felt, And Tyke, my faithful dog, And my knotted hickory cane,
Observe the clasped hands! Are they hands of farewell or gree… Hands that I helped or hands that… Would it not be well to carve a ha… With an inverted thumb, like Elag…
Both for the country and for the m… And for a country as well as a man… ’Tis better to be feared than love… And if this country would rather p… With the friendship of every natio…
My life’s blossom might have bloom… Save for a bitter wind which stunt… On the side of me which you in the… From the dust I lift a voice of p… My flowering side you never saw!
When I died, the circulating libr… Which I built up for Spoon River… And managed for the good of inquir… Was sold at auction on the public… As if to destroy the last vestige
Only the chemist can tell, and not… What will result from compounding Fluids or solids. And who can tell How men and women will interact
I was among multitudes of children Dancing at the foot of a mountain. A breeze blew out of the east and… Driving some up the slopes.... Al… Here were flying lights, and mysti…
