God! ask me not to record your won… I admit the stars and the suns And the countless worlds. But I have measured their distanc… And weighed them and discovered th…

If I could have lived another yea… I could have finished my flying ma… And become rich and famous. Hence it is fitting the workman Who tried to chisel a dove for me

I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitne… Or Kinsey Keene or Garrison Stan… For I tried the rights of propert… Although by lamp-light, for thirty… In that poker room in the opera ho…

In a lingering fever many visions… I was in the little house again With its great yard of clover Running down to the board-fence, Shadowed by the oak tree,

I who kept the greenhouse, Lover of trees and flowers, Oft in life saw this umbrageous el… Measuring its generous branches wi… And listened to its rejoicing leav…

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…

Here! You sons of the men Who fought with Washington at Val… And whipped Black Hawk at Starve… Arise! Do battle with the descend… Who bought land in the loop when i…

Why are you running so fast hither… Chasing midges or butterflies? Some of you are standing solemnly… Some of you are waiting for corn t… This is life, is it?

Out of a cell into this darkened s… The end at twenty-five! My tongue could not speak what sti… And the village thought me a fool. Yet at the start there was a clear…

I was not beloved of the villagers… But all because I spoke my mind, And met those who transgressed aga… With plain remonstrance, hiding no… Nor secret griefs nor grudges.

Dear Jane! dear winsome Jane! How you stole in the room (where… In your nurse’s cap and linen cuff… And took my hand and said with a s… “You are not so ill—you’ll soon be…

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:

Out of me unworthy and unknown The vibrations of deathless music; ‘With malice toward none, with cha… Out of me the forgiveness of milli… And the beneficient face of a nati…

The Prohibitionists made me Town… When the saloons were voted out, Because when I was a drinking man… Before I joined the church, I kil… At the saw-mill near Maple Grove.

The idea danced before us as a fla… The sound of martial music; The thrill of carrying a gun; Advancement in the world on coming… A glint of glory, wrath for foes;