Spoon River Anthology - Penn State University

Edgar Lee Masters
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Harry Wilmans! You who fell in a swamp 181
Have you seen walking through the village 13
He protested all his life long 32
He ran away and was gone for a year. 128
Henry got me with child, 18
Herbert broke our engagement of eight years 64
Here I lie close to the grave 12
Horses and men are just alike. 144
How did you feel, you libertarians, 135
How does it happen, tell me, 20
How many times, during the twenty years 149
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I am Minerva, the village poetess, 28
I began with Sir William Hamilton’s lectures. 196
I belonged to the church, 59
I, born in Weimar 83
I bought every kind of machine that’s known— 146
I could not run or play 80
I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men 102
I had fiddled all day at the county fair. 74
I had no objection at all 90
I have studied many times 66
I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk: 132
I inherited forty acres from my Father 61
I know that he told that I snared his soul 22
I leaned against the mantel, sick, sick, 51
I loathed you, Spoon River. 165
I looked like Abraham Lincoln. 148
I lost my patronage in Spoon River 100
I made two fights for the people. 158
I never saw any difference 54
I preached four thousand sermons, 88
I ran away from home with the circus, 60
I reached the highest place in Spoon River, 161
I staggered on through darkness, 125
I tried to win the nomination 143
I wanted to be County Judge 160
I wanted to go away to college 139
I was a gun-smith in Odessa. 176
I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney 137
I was a peasant girl from Germany, 103
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