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• Spoon River Anthology - Thomas Rhodes

  Very well, you liberals,
  And navigators into realms intellectual,
  You sailors through heights imaginative, …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - Editor Whedon

  To be able to see every side of every question;
  To be on every side, to be everything, to be nothing long;
  To pervert truth, to ride it for a purpose, …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - Seth Compton

  When i died, the circulating library
  Which I built up for Spoon River,
  And managed for the good of inquiring minds, …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - Henry C. Calhoun

  I reached the highest place in Spoon River,
  But through what bitterness of spirit!
  The face of my father, sitting speechless, …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - Perry Zoll

  My thanks, friends of the County Scientific Association,
  For this modest boulder,
  And its little tablet of bronze. …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - Archibald Higbie

  I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you,
  I was ashamed of you. I despised you
  As the place of my nativity. …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - Father Malloy

  You are over there, Father Malloy,
  Where holy ground is, and the cross marks every grave,
  Not here with us on the hill— …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - Lucinda Matlock

  I went to the dances at Chandlerville,
  And played snap-out at Winchester.
  One time we changed partners, …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - Anne Rutledge

  Out of me unworthy and unknown
  The vibrations of deathless music;
  “With malice toward none, with charity for all.” …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - William H. Herndon

  There by the window in the old house
  Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley,
  My days of labor closed, sitting out life’s decline, …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - Rutherford McDowell

  They brought me ambrotypes
  Of the old pioneers to enlarge.
  And sometimes one sat for me— …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - Arlo Will

  Did you ever see an alligator
  Come up to the air from the mud,
  Staring blindly under the full glare of noon? …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - Aaron Hatfield

  Better than granite, Spoon River,
  Is the memory-picture you keep of me
  Standing before the pioneer men and women …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Spoon River Anthology - Webster Ford

  Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo,
  The sunset hour by the river, when Mickey M’Grew
  Cried, “There’s a ghost,” and I, “It’s Delphic Apollo”; …

  Edgar Lee Masters

• Maternity

  One wept whose only child was dead
  New-born, ten years ago.
  “Weep not; he is in bliss,” they said. …

  Alice Meynell

• Chimes

  Brief on a flying night,
  From the shaken tower,
  A flock of bells take flight, …

  Alice Meynell

• O Brother Tree

  O brother tree! O brother tree! Tell to me, thy brother,
  The secret of thy life,
  The wonder of thy being. …

  Max Michelson

• The Bird

  From a branch
  The bird called:
  I HOLD your heart! …

  Max Michelson

• Storm

  Storm,
  wild one,
  Take me in your whirl, …

  Max Michelson

• A Hymn to Night

  Come, mysterious night;
  Descend and nestle to us.
  Descend softly on the houses …

  Max Michelson

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