#Americans
I began with Sir William Hamilto… Then studied Dugald Stewart; And then John Locke on the Under… And then Descartes, Fichte and S… Kant and then Schopenhauer—
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!
Here lies the body of Lois Spears… Born Lois Fluke, daughter of Wil… Wife of Cyrus Spears, Mother of Myrtle and Virgil Spea… Children with clear eyes and sound…
At first you will know not what th… And you may never know, And we may never tell you:— These sudden flashes in your soul, Like lambent lightning on snowy cl…
Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers… Your love was not all in vain. I owe whatever I was in life To your hope that would not give m… To your love that saw me still as…
I have two monuments besides this… One, the house I built on the hil… With its spires, bay windows, and… The other, the lake-front in Chic… Where the railroad keeps a switchi…
They laughed at me as “Prof. Moon… As a boy in Spoon River, born wit… Of knowing about the stars. They jeered when I spoke of the l… And the thrilling heat and cold,
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!
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…
I was crushed between Altgeld and… I lost many friends, much time and… Fighting for Altgeld whom Editor… Denounced as the candidate of gamb… Then Armour started to ship dress…
We quarreled that morning, For he was sixty-five, and I was… And I was nervous and heavy with… Whose birth I dreaded. I thought over the last letter wri…
I belonged to the church, And to the party of prohibition; And the villagers thought I died… In truth I had cirrhosis of the l… For every noon for thirty years,
When Reuben Pantier ran away and… I went to Springfield. There I m… Whose father just deceased left hi… He married me when drunk. My life… A year passed and one day they fou…
Do you remember, O Delphic Apoll… The sunset hour by the river, when… Cried, “There’s a ghost,” and I,… And the son of the banker derided… By the flags at the water’s edge,…
Together in this grave lie Benjam… And Nig, his dog, constant compan… Down the grey road, friends, child… Passing one by one out of life, le… With Nig for partner, bed fellow,…