#Americans
I was a peasant girl from Germany… Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong. And the first place I worked was… On a summer’s day when she was awa… He stole into the kitchen and took…
We stand about this place—we, the… And shade our eyes because we drea… “June 17th, 1884, aged 21 years an… And all things are changed. And we—we, the memories, stand her…
All your sorrow, Louise, and hatr… Sprang from your delusion that it… Of spirit and contempt of your sou… Which made me turn to Annabelle a… You really grew to hate me for lov…
Did I follow Truth wherever she l… And stand against the whole world… And uphold the weak against the st… If I did I would be remembered am… As I was known in life among the…
After you have enriched your soul To the highest point, With books, thought, suffering, th… The power to interpret glances, si… The pauses in momentous transforma…
(THE GRAVEYARD OF SPOON RIVER. TWO VOICES ARE HEARD BEHIND A SCREEN DECORATED WITH DIABOLICAL AND ANGELIC FIGURES IN VARIOUS ALLEGORICAL RELATIONS. A FAINT LIGHT SHOWS DIMLY THROUGH THE...
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…
Why was I not devoured by self-co… And rotted down by indifference And impotent revolt like Indignat… Why, with all of my errant steps Did I miss the fate of Willard F…
I reached the highest place in Sp… But through what bitterness of spi… The face of my father, sitting spe… Child-like, watching his canaries, And looking at the court-house win…
I never saw any difference Between playing cards for money And selling real estate, Practicing law, banking, or anythi… For everything is chance.
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.…
Take note, passers-by, of the shar… Eaten in my head-stone by the wind… Almost as if an intangible Nemesi… Were marking scores against me, But to destroy, and not preserve,…
If a man could bite the giant hand That catches and destroys him, As I was bitten by a rat While demonstrating my patent trap… In my hardware store that day.
Did my widow flit about From Mackinac to Los Angeles, Resting and bathing and sitting an… Or more at the table over soup and… And delicate sweets and coffee?
If the excursion train to Peoria Had just been wrecked, I might ha… Certainly I should have escaped t… But as it was burned as well, they… For John Allen who was sent to th…