Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, ti… Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a… Faint iambics that the full breeze… But the pine tree makes a symphony… Triolets, villanelles, rondels, ro…

A giant as we hoped, in truth, a d… A barrel of slop that shines on L… Which at first seemed a vessel wit… For thirsty lips. So down the swi… You went through sloven spirit, cr…

He protested all his life long The newspapers lied about him vill… That he was not at fault for Mine… But only tried to help her. Poor soul so sunk in sin he could…

If I could have lived another yea… I could have finished my flying ma… And become rich and famous. Hence it is fitting the workman Who tried to chisel a dove for me

You would not believe, would you That I came from good Welsh stock… That I was purer blooded than the… And of more direct lineage than th… And Virginians of Spoon River?

Whoever thou art who passest by Know that my father was gentle, And my mother was violent, While I was born the whole of suc… Not intermixed and fused,

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…

I went up and down the streets Here and there by day and night, Through all hours of the night car… Do you know why? My wife hated me, my son went to t…

Vegetarian, non-resistant, free-th… Orator apt at the rhine-stone rhyt… Carnivorous, avenger, believer and… Continent, promiscuous, changeable… Proud, with the pride that makes s…

‘Get children,’ says Commodus. Wh… The portals of the earth? Pre-nat… If you had entered here the god of… Had slaughtered you to crown ambit…

Not, where the stairway turns in t… A hooded figure, shriveled under a… Not yellow eyes in the room at nig… Staring out from a surface of cobw… And not the flap of a condor wing,

While I was handling Dom Pedro I got at the thing that divides th… For singing “Turkey in the straw”… (Like Rile Potter used to sing it… For cards, or for Rev. Peet’s lec…

Did I follow Truth wherever she l… And stand against the whole world… And uphold the weak against the st… If I did I would be remembered am… As I was known in life among the…

Dear Jane! dear winsome Jane! How you stole in the room (where… In your nurse’s cap and linen cuff… And took my hand and said with a s… “You are not so ill—you’ll soon be…

If the learned Supreme Court of… Got at the secret of every case As well as it does a case of rape It would be the greatest court in… A jury, of neighbors mostly, with…