With our hearts like drifting suns… As often before, the April fields… Silkened over with viewless gauze… Under the cliff, our trysting plac… Where the brook turns! Had we but…

Back and forth, back and forth, to… With my Bible under my arm Till I was gray and old; Unwedded, alone in the world, Finding brothers and sisters in th…

(America Conquers Europe.) Foul shapes that hate the day, aga… Late driven hence, infested fane a… The laurels of our victory were am… Vile King-craft with his breed of…

When Fort Sumter fell and the war… I cried out in bitterness of soul: “O glorious republic now no more!” When they buried my soldier son To the call of trumpets and the so…

As to democracy, fellow citizens, Are you not prepared to admit That I, who inherited riches and… Was second to none in Spoon River In my devotion to the cause of Li…

I am Minerva, the village poetess… Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoo… For my heavy body, cock-eye, and r… And all the more when “Butch” Wel… Captured me after a brutal hunt.

Herbert broke our engagement of ei… When Annabelle returned to the vi… From the Seminary, ah me! If I had let my love for him alon… It might have grown into a beautif…

There at Geneva where Mt. Blanc… The wine-hued lake like a cloud, w… Out of an empty sky of blue, and t… Hurried under the bridge through c… And the music along the cafés was…

I had no objection at all To selling my household effects at… On the village square. It gave my beloved flock the chanc… To get something which had belonge…

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…

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.

Have any of you, passers-by, Had an old tooth that was an uncea… Or a pain in the side that never q… Or a malignant growth that grew wi… So that even in profoundest slumbe…

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…

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—

In the lust of my strength I cursed God, but he paid no atte… I might as well have cursed the st… In my last sickness I was in agon… And I cursed God for my suffering…