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Born in August 23, 1868 / Died in March 5, 1950 / United States / English

Poems by Edgar Lee Masters

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Hon. Henry Bennett

... That Jenny had loved me to death, with malice of heart ...

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Widow McFarlane

... You're alone in the room! You have woven a shroud! ...

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Godwin James

... Who surged forward, who were driven back and fell, ...

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J. Milton Miles

... Was rung by itself, I knew it as the Presbyterian bell ...

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Judge Somers

... A brief that won the praise of Justice Breese-- ...

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On a Bust

... A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', ...

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Hortense Robbins

... To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang ...

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Nicholas Bindle

... Worshipped for the first time after his acquittal ...

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Jim Brown

... For singing "Turkey in the straw" or "There is a fountain filled with blood" -- ...

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Dow Kritt

... Look, Samuel, where the roots have struck rock, ...

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Bert Kessler

... The head of him arched, sunk back in the rings of him, ...

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Ezra Bartlett

... Are the stimulants by which the soul, hungering for divinity, ...

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Robert Southey Burke

... A. D. Blood. I lavished my admiration upon you, ...

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Josiah Tompkins

... And so much of my fortune was gone at last, ...

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Henry Layton

... Some as both. But neither half of me wrought my ruin ...