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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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Rev. Lemuel Wiley

... And kept the children free from that disgrace, ...

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Dorcas Gustine

... It is braver, I think, to snatch the wolf forth ...

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Henry Phipps

... In a new devourer of life, when newspapers, judges and money-magicians ...

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Searcy Foote

... With her throat so paralyzed, when she swallowed ...

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Clarence Fawcett

... Put me in line to be promoted to fifty dollars a month, ...

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W. Lloyd Garrison Standard

... Proud, with the pride that makes struggle a thing for laughter ...

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Mrs. Meyers

... That even trying to help her, as he called it, ...

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Willie Metcalf

... Sometimes I taIked with animals -- even toads and snakes -- ...

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Harold Arnett

... When no soul may ever escape the eternal destiny of life ...

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Eugene Carman

... Living in this stinking room in the rattle-trap "Commercial ...

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Gustav Richter

... Sleep was sweet, but if you sleep on your left side ...

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Russell Kincaid

... Yet thinking of youth and the earth in youth, -- ...

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Edmund Pollard

... With a bashful "Thank you," when you're hungry ...

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John M. Church

... And the upper courts, to beat the claims ...

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Henry Tripp

... I was sick of the tiresome game in Spoon River ...