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In Darkness by Amy Lowell
Must all of worth be travailled for, and those
Life’s brightest stars rise from a troubled sea?
Mu..
Irony by Amy Lowell
An arid daylight shines along the beach
Dried to a grey monotony of tone,
And stranded jelly-fish..
Ida Frickey by Edgar Lee Masters
Nothing in life is alien to you:
I was a penniless girl from Summum
Who stepped from the morning t..
Ippolit Konovaloff by Edgar Lee Masters
I was a gun-smith in Odessa.
One night the police broke in the room
Where a group of us were readi..
Isa Nutter by Edgar Lee Masters
Doc Meyers said I had satyriasis,
And Doc Hill called it leucaemia --
But I know what brought me h..
Imanuel Ehrenhardt by Edgar Lee Masters
I began with Sir William Hamilton’s lectures.
Then studied Dugald Stewart;
And then John Locke on..
Isaiah Beethoven by Edgar Lee Masters
They told me I had three months to live,
So I crept to Bernadotte,
And sat by the mill for hours a..
Indignation Jones by Edgar Lee Masters
You would not believe, would you
That I came from good Welsh stock?
That I was purer blooded than..
Ida Chicken by Edgar Lee Masters
After I had attended lectures
At our Chautauqua, and studied French
For twenty years, committing t..
In Response To A Rumor That The Oldest Whorehouse In Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned by
I will grieve alone,
As I strolled alone, years ago, down along
The Ohio shore.
I hid in the hobo..
I Sleep a Lot by Czeslaw Milosz
I sleep a lot and read St. Thomas Aquinas
Or The Death of God (that’s a Protestant book).
To the r..
In Black Despair by Czeslaw Milosz
In grayish doubt and black despair,
I drafted hymns to the earth and the air,
pretending to joy, a..
Incantation by Czeslaw Milosz
Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentenc..
Infirmities by Robert William Service
Because my teeth are feebly few
I cannot bolt my grub like you,
But have to chew and chew and chew..
Immortality by Robert William Service
Full well I trow that when I die
Down drops the curtain;
Another show is all my eye
And Betty Mar..
I'm Scared Of It All by Robert William Service
I’m scared of it all, God’s truth! so I am;
It’s too big and brutal for me.
My nerve’s on the raw..
I Will Not Fight by Robert William Service
I will not fight: though proud of pith
I hold no one worth striving with;
And should resentment bu..
Indifference by Robert William Service
When I am dead I will not care
Forever more,
If sky be radiantly fair
Or tempest roar.
If my lif..
Imagination by Robert William Service
A gaunt and hoary slab of stone
I found in desert place,
And wondered why it lay alone
In that ab..
Ignorance by Robert William Service
Oh happy he who cannot see
With scientific eyes;
Who does not know how flowers grow,
And is not p..
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