#Americans
’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…
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…
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…
Harry Wilmans! You who fell in a… Near Manila, following the flag, You were not wounded by the greatn… Or destroyed by ineffectual work, Or driven to madness by Satanic s…
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,…
Samuel is forever talking of his e… But I did not need to die to lear… I, who dug all the ditches about… Look at my elm! Sprung from as good a seed as his,
How does it happen, tell me, That I who was the most erudite o… Who knew Blackstone and Coke Almost by heart, who made the grea… The court-house ever heard, and wr…
She loved me. Oh! how she loved m… I never had a chance to escape From the day she first saw me. But then after we were married I… She might prove her mortality and…
Father, thou canst never know The anguish that smote my heart For my disobedience, the moment I… The remorseless wheel of the engin… Sink into the crying flesh of my l…
You are over there, Father Malloy… Where holy ground is, and the cros… Not here with us on the hill— Us of wavering faith, and clouded… And drifting hope, and unforgiven…
Toward the last The truth of others was untruth to… The justice of others injustice to… Their reasons for death, reasons w… Their reasons for life, reasons wi…
They first charged me with disorde… There being no statute on blasphem… Later they locked me up as insane Where I was beaten to death by a… My offense was this:
Only the chemist can tell, and not… What will result from compounding Fluids or solids. And who can tell How men and women will interact
It was only a little house of two… Almost like a child’s play-house— With scarce five acres of ground a… And I had so many children to fee… And school and clothe, and a wife…
The press of the Spoon River Cla… And I was tarred and feathered, For publishing this on the day the… “I saw a beautiful woman with band… Standing on the steps of a marble…