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Joy by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
My heart is like a little bird
That sits and sings for very gladness.
Sorrow is some forgotten wor..
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves,..
J--K. Huysmans by Amy Lowell
A flickering glimmer through a window-pane,
A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass,
Cleavin..
Jacob Goodpasture by Edgar Lee Masters
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came
I cried out in bitterness of soul:
"O glorious republic now..
James Garber by Edgar Lee Masters
Do you remember, passer-by, the path
I wore across the lot where now stands the opera house,
Hasti..
Jacob Godbey by Edgar Lee Masters
How did you feel, you libertarians,
Who spent your talents rallying noble reasons
Around the saloo..
Jennie M'Grew by Edgar Lee Masters
Not, where the stairway turns in the dark,
A hooded figure, shriveled under a flowing cloak!
Not y..
Joseph Dixon by Edgar Lee Masters
Who carved this shattered harp on my stone?
I died to you, no doubt. But how many harps and pianos
..
Johnnie Sayre by Edgar Lee Masters
Father, thou canst never know
The anguish that smote my heart
For my disobedience, the moment I fe..
Jeduthan Hawley by Edgar Lee Masters
There would be a knock at the door
And I would arise at midnight and go to the shop,
Where belated..
John M. Church by Edgar Lee Masters
I was attorney for the "Q"
And the Indemnity Company which insured
The owners of the mine.
I pull..
Josiah Tompkins by Edgar Lee Masters
I was well known and much beloved
And rich, as fortunes are reckoned
In Spoon River, where I had l..
Jim Brown by Edgar Lee Masters
While I was handling Dom Pedro
I got at the thing that divides the race between men who are
For si..
Judge Somers by Edgar Lee Masters
How does it happen, tell me,
That I who was the most erudite of lawyers,
Who knew Blackstone and C..
J. Milton Miles by Edgar Lee Masters
Whenever the Presbyterian bell
Was rung by itself, I knew it as the Presbyterian bell.
But when it..
John Wasson by Edgar Lee Masters
Oh! the dew-wet grass of the meadow in North Carolina
Through which Rebecca followed me wailing, wa..
Jonas Keene by Edgar Lee Masters
Why did Albert Schirding kill himself
Trying to be County Superintendent of Schools,
Blest as he w..
John Cabanis by Edgar Lee Masters
Neither spite, fellow citizens,
Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness,
And the lawlessness and wa..
Jefferson Howard by Edgar Lee Masters
My valiant fight! For I call it valiant,
With my father’s beliefs from old Virginia:
Hating slaver..
Jonathan Houghton by Edgar Lee Masters
There is the caw of a crow,
And the hesitant song of a thrush.
There is the tinkle of a cowbell fa..
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