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Silas Dement by Edgar Lee Masters
It was moon-light, and the earth sparkled
With new-fallen frost.
It was midnight and not a soul ab..
Samuel Gardner by Edgar Lee Masters
I who kept the greenhouse,
Lover of trees and flowers,
Oft in life saw this umbrageous elm,
Measu..
Searcy Foote by Edgar Lee Masters
I wanted to go away to college
But rich Aunt Persis wouldn’t help me.
So I made gardens and raked..
Scholfield Huxley by Edgar Lee Masters
God! ask me not to record your wonders,
I admit the stars and the suns
And the countless worlds.
..
Schroeder the Fisherman by Edgar Lee Masters
I sat on the bank above Bernadotte
And dropped crumbs in the water,
Just to see the minnows bump e..
Sam Hookey by Edgar Lee Masters
I ran away from home with the circus,
Having fallen in love with Mademoiselle Estralada,
The lion..
Serepta Mason by Edgar Lee Masters
My life’s blossom might have bloomed on all sides
Save for a bitter wind which stunted my petals
O..
Shack Dye by Edgar Lee Masters
The white men played all sorts of jokes on me.
They took big fish off my hook
And put little ones..
Sarah Brown by Edgar Lee Masters
Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree.
The balmy air of spring whispers through the..
Sersmith the Dentist by Edgar Lee Masters
Do you think that odes and sermons,
And the ringing of church bells,
And the blood of old men and..
Seth Compton by Edgar Lee Masters
When I died, the circulating library
Which I built up for Spoon River,
And managed for the good of..
Silence by Edgar Lee Masters
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,
And the silence of the city when it pauses,
..
Sonnet by John Masefield
FLESH, I have knocked at many a dusty door,
Gone down full many a midnight lane,
Probed in old wal..
Sea Change by John Masefield
"Goneys an’ gullies an’ all o’ the birds o’ the sea
They ain’t no birds, not really", said Billy th..
Sea Fever by John Masefield
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a..
Standardization by Alec Derwent Hope
When, darkly brooding on this Modern Age,
The journalist with his marketable woes
Fills up once mo..
Song of the Son by Jean Toomer
Pour O pour that parting soul in song
O pour it in the sawdust glow of night
Into the velvet pine-..
Sudden Things by Donald Hall
A storm was coming, that was why it was dark. The wind was blowing the fronds of the palm trees off...
Sweeney Erect by T. S. Eliot
And the trees about me,
Let them be dry and leafless; let the rocks
Groan with continual surges; a..
Sweeney among the Nightingales by T. S. Eliot
APENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his..
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