Poems by Edgar Lee Masters
Rev. Lemuel Wiley
... And kept the children free from that disgrace, ...
Dorcas Gustine
... It is braver, I think, to snatch the wolf forth ...
Henry Phipps
... In a new devourer of life, when newspapers, judges and money-magicians ...
Searcy Foote
... With her throat so paralyzed, when she swallowed ...
Clarence Fawcett
... Put me in line to be promoted to fifty dollars a month, ...
W. Lloyd Garrison Standard
... Proud, with the pride that makes struggle a thing for laughter ...
Mrs. Meyers
... That even trying to help her, as he called it, ...
Willie Metcalf
... Sometimes I taIked with animals -- even toads and snakes -- ...
Harold Arnett
... When no soul may ever escape the eternal destiny of life ...
Eugene Carman
... Living in this stinking room in the rattle-trap "Commercial ...
Gustav Richter
... Sleep was sweet, but if you sleep on your left side ...
Russell Kincaid
... Yet thinking of youth and the earth in youth, -- ...
Edmund Pollard
... With a bashful "Thank you," when you're hungry ...
John M. Church
... And the upper courts, to beat the claims ...
Henry Tripp
... I was sick of the tiresome game in Spoon River ...