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Earthly Pride by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
How baseless is the mightiest earthly pride,
The diamond is but charcoal purified,
The lordliest p..
Echoes by Lewis Carroll
Lady Clara Vere de Vere
Was eight years old, she said:
Every ringlet, lightly shaken, ran itself i..
Epilogue to Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
A boat, beneath a sunny sky
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July --
Children three t..
Easter by Edmund Spenser
MOST glorious Lord of Lyfe! that, on this day,
Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin;
And, hav..
Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes
Beene to me ayding, others to adorne,
Whom ye thought wo..
Epitaph in a Church-Yard in Charleston, South Carolina by Amy Lowell
GEORGE AUGUSTUS CLOUGH
A NATIVE OF LIVERPOOL,
DIED SUDDENLY OF "STRANGER’S FEVER"
NOV’R 5th 1843
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Epitaph of a Young Poet Who Died Before Having Achieved Success by Amy Lowell
Beneath this sod lie the remains
Of one who died of growing pains...
E.C. Culbertson by Edgar Lee Masters
Is it true, Spoon River,
That in the hall-way of the New Court House
There is a tablet of bronze
..
Edmund Pollard by Edgar Lee Masters
I would I had thrust my hands of flesh
Into the disk-flowers bee-infested,
Into the mirror-like co..
Eugene Carman by Edgar Lee Masters
Rhodes’ slave! Selling shoes and gingham,
Flour and bacon, overalls, clothing, all day long
For fo..
Ezra Bartlett by Edgar Lee Masters
A chaplain in the army,
A chaplain in the prisons,
An exhorter in Spoon River,
Drunk with divinit..
Elijah Browning by Edgar Lee Masters
I was among multitudes of children
Dancing at the foot of a mountain.
A breeze blew out of the eas..
Enoch Dunlap by Edgar Lee Masters
How many times, during the twenty years
I was your leader, friends of Spoon River,
Did you neglect..
Elmer Karr by Edgar Lee Masters
What but the love of God could have softened
And made forgiving the people of Spoon River
Toward m..
Eugenia Todd by Edgar Lee Masters
Have any of you, passers-by,
Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort?
Or a pain in the s..
Editor Whedon by Edgar Lee Masters
To be able to see every side of every question;
To be on every side, to be everything, to be nothin..
Elsa Wertman by Edgar Lee Masters
I was a peasant girl from Germany,
Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong.
And the first place I worked..
Elliott Hawkins by Edgar Lee Masters
I looked like Abraham Lincoln.
I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship,
But standing for..
English Thornton by Edgar Lee Masters
Here! You sons of the men
Who fought with Washington at Valley Forge,
And whipped Black Hawk at St..
Edith Conant by Edgar Lee Masters
We stand about this place -- we, the memories;
And shade our eyes because we dread to read:
"June..
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