I was the only child of Frances H… And Thomas Greene of Kentucky, Of valiant and honorable blood bot… To them I owe all that I became, Judge, member of Congress, leader…

From Bindle’s opera house in the… To Broadway is a great step. But I tried to take it, my ambiti… When sixteen years of age, Seeing “East Lynne” played here i…

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…

My valiant fight! For I call it v… With my father’s beliefs from old… Hating slavery, but no less war. I, full of spirit, audacity, coura… Thrown into life here in Spoon Ri…

He ran away and was gone for a yea… When he came home he told me the s… Of being kidnapped by pirates on… And kept in chains so he could not… I pretended to believe it, though…

Is it true, Spoon River, That in the hall-way of the New C… There is a tablet of bronze Containing the embossed faces Of Editor Whedon and Thomas Rhod…

I staggered on through darkness, There was a hazy sky, a few stars Which I followed as best I could. It was nine o’clock, I was trying… But somehow I was lost,

It was just like everything else i… Something outside myself drew me d… My own strength never failed me. Why, there was the time I earned… With which to go away to school,

After I got religion and steadied… They gave me a job in the canning… And every morning I had to fill The tank in the yard with gasoline… That fed the blow-fires in the she…

I was a gun-smith in Odessa. One night the police broke in the… Where a group of us were reading… And seized our books and arrested… But I escaped and came to New Yo…

There by the window in the old hou… Perched on the bluff, overlooking… My days of labor closed, sitting o… Day by day did I look in my memor… As one who gazes in an enchantress…

Knowlt Hoheimer ran away to the w… The day before Curl Trenary Swore out a warrant through Justi… For stealing hogs. But that’s not the reason he turne…

I was Willie Metcalf. They used to call me “Doctor Meye… Because, they said, I looked like… And he was my father, according to… I lived in the livery stable,

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…

The white men played all sorts of… They took big fish off my hook And put little ones on, while I w… Getting a stringer, and made me be… I hadn’t seen aright the fish I h…