Back and forth, back and forth, to… With my Bible under my arm Till I was gray and old; Unwedded, alone in the world, Finding brothers and sisters in th…

Have any of you, passers-by, Had an old tooth that was an uncea… Or a pain in the side that never q… Or a malignant growth that grew wi… So that even in profoundest slumbe…

I was a peasant girl from Germany… Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong. And the first place I worked was… On a summer’s day when she was awa… He stole into the kitchen and took…

They got me into the Sunday-schoo… In Spoon River And tried to get me to drop Confu… I could have been no worse off If I had tried to get them to dro…

Over and over they used to ask me, While buying the wine or the beer, In Peoria first, and later in Chi… Denver, Frisco, New York, wherev… How I happened to lead the life,

Deities! Inexorable revealers, Give me strength to endure The gifts of the Muses, Daughters of Memory.

You, if it fall to you to take From us the lamp that Athens gave… Fill it with mercy for our sake, And light us gently to the grave. The Goth and Vandal rendered not

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!

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…

I was well known and much beloved And rich, as fortunes are reckoned In Spoon River, where I had live… That was the home for me, Though all my children had flown a…

My mind was a mirror: It saw what it saw, it knew what i… In youth my mind was just a mirror In a rapidly flying car, Which catches and loses bits of th…

Silent before the jury, Returning no word to the judge whe… If I had aught to say against the… Only shaking my head. What could I say to people who th…

It matters not what place he drew At first life’s mortal breath, Some say it was in Bethlehem, And some in Nazareth. But shame and sorrow were his lot

Rich, honored by my fellow citizen… The father of many children, born… All raised there In the great mansion-house, at the… Note the cedar tree on the lawn!