Grandmother! You who sang to gree… And passed to a sweet repose at ni… Here is your little Rita at last Grown old, grown forty-nine; Here stretched on your grave under…

My father who owned the wagon-shop And grew rich shoeing horses Sent me to the University of Mont… I learned nothing and returned hom… Roaming the fields with Bert Kess…

You never marveled, dullards of S… When Chase Henry voted against th… To revenge himself for being shut… But none of you was keen enough To follow my steps, or trace me ho…

Here! You sons of the men Who fought with Washington at Val… And whipped Black Hawk at Starve… Arise! Do battle with the descend… Who bought land in the loop when i…

Once in a while a curious weed unk… Needing a name from my books; Once in a while a letter from Yeo… Out of the mussel-shells gathered… Sometimes a pearl with a glint lik…

Not “a youth with hoary head and h… But an old man with a smooth skin And black hair! I had the face of a boy as long as… And for years a soul that was stif…

Neither spite, fellow citizens, Nor forgetfulness of the shiftless… And the lawlessness and waste Under democracy’s rule in Spoon R… Made me desert the party of law an…

’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…

Ye young debaters over the doctrin… Of the soul’s immortality I who lie here was the village ath… Talkative, contentious, versed in… Of the infidels.

There is something about Death Like love itself! If with some one with whom you hav… And the glow of youthful love, You also, after years of life

Who carved this shattered harp on… I died to you, no doubt. But how… Wired I and tightened and disenta… Making them sweet again—with tunin… Oh well! A harp leaps out of the…

Reading in Ovid the sorrowful sto… Son of the love of Tereus and Pro… For the guilty passion of Tereus… The flesh of him served to Tereus… And the wrath of Tereus, the murd…

I winged my bird, Though he flew toward the setting… But just as the shot rang out, he… Up and up through the splinters of… Till he turned right over, feather…

If a man could bite the giant hand That catches and destroys him, As I was bitten by a rat While demonstrating my patent trap… In my hardware store that day.

Passer-by, sin beyond any sin Is the sin of blindness of souls t… And joy beyond any joy is the joy Of having the good in you seen, an… At the miraculous moment!