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Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology - Tom Merritt
At first I suspected something--
She acted so calm and absent-minded.
And one day I heard the back door shut
As I entered the front, and I saw him slink
Back of the smokehouse into the lot
And run across the field.
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Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology - Thomas Rhodes
Very well, you liberals,
And navigators into realms intellectual,
You sailors through heights imaginative,
Blown about by erratic currents, tumbling into air pockets,
You Margaret Fuller Slacks, Petits,
And Tennessee Claflin Shopes... |
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Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology - The Circuit Judge
Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions
Eaten in my head-stone by the wind and rain--
Almost as if an intangible Nemesis or hatred
Were marking scores against me,
But to destroy, and not preserve, my memory.
I in life was the Circuit judge, a maker of notches,... |
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Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology - State's Attorney Fallas
I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker,
Smiter with whips and swords;
I, hater of the breakers of the law;
I, legalist, inexorable and bitter,
Driving the jury to hang the madman, Barry Holden,
Was made as one dead... |
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Masters, Edgar Lee: A Spoon River-i holtak - Shack Dye (Spoon River Anthology - Shack Dye Magyar nyelven)
Spoon River Anthology - Shack Dye (Angol)
The white men played all sorts of jokes on me.
They took big fish off my hook
And put little ones on, while I was away
Getting a stringer, and made me believe... |
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Masters, Edgar Lee: A Spoon River-i holtak - Sexsmith, a fogász (Spoon River Anthology - Sexsmith the Dentist Magyar nyelven)
Spoon River Anthology - Sexsmith the Dentist (Angol)
Do you think that odes and sermons,
And the ringing of church bells,
And the blood of old men and young men,
Martyred for the truth... |
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Masters, Edgar Lee: A Spoon River-i holtak - Serepta Mason (Spoon River Anthology - Serepta Mason Magyar nyelven)
Spoon River Anthology - Serepta Mason (Angol)
My life's blossom might have bloomed on all sides
Save for a bitter wind which stunted my petals
On the side of me which you in the village could see.
From the... |
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Masters, Edgar Lee: A Spoon River-i holtak - Sarah Brown (Spoon River Anthology - Sarah Brown Magyar nyelven)
Spoon River Anthology - Sarah Brown (Angol)
Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree.
The balmy air of spring whispers through the sweet grass,
The stars sparkle, the whippoorwill calls,
But thou ... |
| 2013-11-15 15:17:48 |
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Masters, Edgar Lee: A Spoon River-i holtak - Rosie Roberts (Spoon River Anthology - Rosie Roberts Magyar nyelven)
Spoon River Anthology - Rosie Roberts (Angol)
I was sick, but more than that, I was mad
At the crooked police, and the crooked game of life.
So I wrote to the Chief of Police at Peoria:
"l am here ... |
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Masters, Edgar Lee: A Spoon River-i holtak - Roger Heston (Spoon River Anthology - Roger Heston Magyar nyelven)
Spoon River Anthology - Roger Heston (Angol)
Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I
Argue about the freedom of the will.
My favorite metaphor was Prickett's cow
Roped out to grass, and free you know as far... |
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