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Roy Butler by Edgar Lee Masters
If the learned Supreme Court of Illinois
Got at the secret of every case
As well as it does a case..
Rita Matlock Gruenberg by Edgar Lee Masters
Grandmother! You who sang to green valleys,
And passed to a sweet repose at ninety-six,
Here is yo..
Richard Bone by Edgar Lee Masters
When I first came to Spoon River
I did not know whether what they told me
Was true or false.
They..
Roger Heston by Edgar Lee Masters
Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I
Argue about the freedom of the will.
My favorite metaphor was..
Robert Fulton Tanner by Edgar Lee Masters
If a man could bite the giant hand
That catchs and destroys him,
As I was bitten by a rat
While d..
Rain In My Heart by Edgar Lee Masters
There is a quiet in my heart
Like on who rests from days of pain.
Outside, the sparrows on the roo..
Roadways by John Masefield
ONE road leads to London,
One road leads to Wales,
My road leads me seawards
To the white dipping..
Reapers by Jean Toomer
Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones
Are sharpening scythes. I see them place the hones
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Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot
TWELVE o’clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incan..
Rip by James Wright
It can’t be the passing of time that casts
That white shadow across the waters
Just offshore.
I s..
Remorse by Robert William Service
That scathing word I used in scorn
(Though half a century ago)
Comes back to me this April morn,
..
Ruins by Robert William Service
Ruins in Rome are four a penny,
And here along the Appian Way
I see the monuments of many
Esteeme..
Rover's Rest by Robert William Service
By parents I would not be pinned,
Nor in my home abide,
For I was wanton as the wind
And tameless..
Room Ghost by Robert William Service
Though elegance I ill afford,
My living-room is green and gold;
The former tenant was a lord
Who..
Room 4: The Painter Chap by Robert William Service
He gives me such a bold and curious look,
That young American across the way,
As if he’d like to p..
Ripeness by Robert William Service
With peace and rest
And wisdom sage,
Ripeness is best
Of every age.
With hands that fold
In pen..
Room 5: The Concert Singer by Robert William Service
I’m one of these haphazard chaps
Who sit in cafes drinking;
A most improper taste, perhaps,
Yet p..
Resolutions by Robert William Service
Each New Year’s Eve I used to brood
On my misdoings of the past,
And vowed: "This year I’ll be so..
Reverence by Robert William Service
I saw the Greatest Man on Earth,
Aye, saw him with my proper eyes.
A loin-cloth spanned his proper..
Raising The Flag by Robert William Service
Behold! the Spanish flag they’re raising
Before the Palace courtyard gate;
To watch its progress b..
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