Spoon River Anthology - Penn State University

Edgar Lee Masters
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l, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker, 78
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Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine t 38
Mr. Kessler, you know, was in the army, 129
My father who owned the wagon-shop 39
My life’s blossom might have bloomed on all sides 17
My mind was a mirror: 105
My mother was for woman’s rights 147
My name used to be in the papers daily 134
My parents thought that I would be 136
My thanks, friends of the 163
My valiant fight! For I call it valiant, 91
My wife lost her health, 55
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No other man, unless it was Doc Hill, 31
Not “a youth with hoary head and haggard eye”, 172
Not character, not fortitude, not patience 107
Not, where the stairway turns in the dark 193
Nothing in life is alien to you: 150
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Observe the clasped hands! 142
Of John Cabanis, wrath and of the strife 223
Often Aner Clute at the gate 58
Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I 106
Oh, you young radicals and dreamers, 215
Oh! the dew-wet grass of the meadow in North Carol 179
Once in a while a curious weed unknown to me, 199
Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chem 25
Out of a cell into this darkened space— 35
Out of the lights and roar of cities, 130
Over and over they used to ask me, 56
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Passer-by, 96
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Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys, 141
Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce him 86
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