I was the laughing-stock of the vi… Chiefly of the people of good sens… Also of the learned, like Rev. Pe… The same as English. For instead of talking free trade,

I loathed you, Spoon River. I tr… I was ashamed of you. I despised… As the place of my nativity. And there in Rome, among the arti… Speaking Italian, speaking French…

Passer-by, To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved on… When the beloved one withdraws its… Then you have lost your soul.

Glorious daughter of time! Thou o… Thou of the virginal forehead—pall… Thou of the strong white hands wit… Of the blood that quickened the fa… Leave thou the path of the beasts.…

There is the caw of a crow, And the hesitant song of a thrush. There is the tinkle of a cowbell f… And the voice of a plowman on Shi… The forest beyond the orchard is s…

Nothing in life is alien to you: I was a penniless girl from Summu… Who stepped from the morning train… All the houses stood before me wit… And drawn shades—I was barred out…

I was the only child of Frances H… And Thomas Greene of Kentucky, Of valiant and honorable blood bot… To them I owe all that I became, Judge, member of Congress, leader…

Ye who are kicking against Fate, Tell me how it is that on this hil… Running down to the river, Which fronts the sun and the south… This plant draws from the air and…

What but the love of God could ha… And made forgiving the people of… Toward me who wronged the bed of… And murdered him beside? Oh, loving hearts that took me in…

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.

Do you remember when I stood on t… Of the Court House and talked fre… And the single-tax of Henry Georg… Then do you remember that, when th… Lost the first battle, I began to…

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…

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…

The earth keeps some vibration goi… There in your heart, and that is y… And if the people find you can fid… Why, fiddle you must, for all your… What do you see, a harvest of clov…

Tell me, was Altgeld elected Gove… For when the returns began to come… And Cleveland was sweeping the Ea… It was too much for you, poor old… Who had striven for democracy