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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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Ballade Of Dead Republics

... ENVOY. Prince! 'tis the year of your jubilee, ...

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Memorabilia

... And the boon of an age destroyed, ere a cycle turned ...

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Race Suicide

... Had slaughtered you to crown ambition's head! ...

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Ballad Of Jesus Of Nazareth

... And they mocked his woe and they wagged their heads, ...

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Epilogue

... s of the dead, including those who have appeared in the Anthology, hurry to the sound of the trumpet ...

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The Two Souls

... till amidst The reeling masquerade of hate and death ...

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The World-Saver

... Fate's children sieze the prosperous year ...

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On A Picture Of John D. Rockefeller

... Huge growths do thrive, once meadow, by the toil ...

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Samuel

... The fair skin thereby parched with drought ...

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America

... By monarchs who shrank from the scourging and doom of thy strength and thee ...

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Supplication

... Great works we planned in hopes that Thou ...

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Filipinos, Remember Us

... But we --we shipped with slime for freight, ...

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Glorious France

... When the breath of battle blows the smouldering spark ...

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Carl Hamblin

... For publishing this on the day the Anarchists were hanged in Chicago: ...

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Conrad Siever

... To move in the chemic change and circle of life, ...