#Americans
I preached four thousand sermons, I conducted forty revivals, And baptized many converts. Yet no deed of mine Shines brighter in the memory of t…
Why did you bruise me with your ro… If you did not want me to tell you… And stifle me with your stupiditie… If you did not want me to expose t… And nail me with the nails of crue…
You never understood, O unknown o… Why it was I repaid Your devoted friendship and delica… First with diminished thanks, Afterward by gradually withdrawing…
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…
Often Aner Clute at the gate Refused me the parting kiss, Saying we should be engaged before… And just with a distant clasp of t… She bade me good-night, as I brou…
I leaned against the mantel, sick,… Thinking of my failure, looking in… Weak from the noon-day heat. A church bell sounded mournfully f… I heard the cry of a baby,
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…
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…
It is true, fellow citizens, That my old docket lying there for… On a shelf above my head and over The seat of justice, I say it is… That docket had an iron rim
I was the milliner Talked about, lied about, Mother of Dora, Whose strange disappearance Was charged to her rearing.
When I went to the city, Mary Mc… I meant to return for you, yes I… But Laura, my landlady’s daughter… Stole into my life somehow, and wo… Then after some years whom should…
I was sixteen, and I had the most… And specks before my eyes, and ner… And I couldn’t remember the books… Like Frank Drummer who memorized… And my back was weak, and I worri…
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.…
The sudden death of Eugene Carman Put me in line to be promoted to f… And I told my wife and children t… But it didn’t come, and so I thou… Old Rhodes suspected me of steali…
My parents thought that I would b… As great as Edison or greater: For as a boy I made balloons And wondrous kites and toys with c… And little engines with tracks to…