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Aaron Hatfield by Edgar Lee Masters
Better than granite, Spoon River,
Is the memory-picture you keep of me
Standing before the pioneer..
Amelia Garrick by Edgar Lee Masters
Yes, here I lie close to a stunted rose bush
In a forgotten place near the fence
Where the thicket..
Ami Green by Edgar Lee Masters
Not "a youth with hoary head and haggard eye,"
But an old man with a smooth skin
And black hair!
..
Albert Schirding by Edgar Lee Masters
Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one
Because his children were all failures.
But I know of a fat..
Abel Melveny by Edgar Lee Masters
I bought every kind of machine that’s known --
Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers,
Mills and rak..
Anne Rutledge by Edgar Lee Masters
Out of me unworthy and unknown
The vibrations of deathless music;
’With malice toward none, with c..
Ace Shaw by Edgar Lee Masters
I never saw any difference
Between playing cards for money
And selling real estate,
Practicing la..
Amanda Barker by Edgar Lee Masters
Henry got me with child,
Knowing that I could not bring forth life
Without losing my own.
In my y..
A.D. Blood by Edgar Lee Masters
If you in the village think that my work was a good one,
Who closed the saloons and stopped all pla..
Alexander Throckmorton by Edgar Lee Masters
In youth my wings were strong and tireless,
But I did not know the mountains.
In age I knew the mo..
Andy the Night-Watch by Edgar Lee Masters
In my Spanish cloak,
And old slouch hat,
And overshoes of felt,
And Tyke, my faithful dog,
And m..
A Creed by John Masefield
I HOLD that when a person dies
His soul returns again to earth;
Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise..
An Epilogue by John Masefield
I had seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the gold..
A Wanderer's Song by John Masefield
A WIND’S in the heart of me, a fire’s in my heels,
I am tired of brick and stone and rumbling wagon..
A Ballad of John Silver by John Masefield
We were schooner-rigged and rakish,
with a long and lissome hull,
And we flew the pretty colours o..
A Country Life by Randall Jarrell
A bird that I don’t know,
Hunched on his light-pole like a scarecrow,
Looks sideways out into the..
A Sick Child by Randall Jarrell
The postman comes when I am still in bed.
"Postman, what do you have for me today?"
I say to him...
Australia by Alec Derwent Hope
A Nation of trees, drab green and desolate grey
In the field uniform of modern wars,
Darkens her h..
A Portrait in Georgia by Jean Toomer
Hair-braided chestnut,
coiled like a lyncher’s rope,
Eyes-fagots,
Lips-old scars, or the first re..
A Certain Man by Jean Toomer
A certain man wishes to be a prince
Of this earth; he also wants to be
A saint and master of the b..
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