Spoon River Anthology - Penn State University

Spoon River Anthology
Rhodes, slave! Selling shoes and gingham, 118
Rich, honored by my fellow citizens, 95
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Samuel is forever talking of his elm— 198
Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, 84
She loved me. 127
She took my strength by minutes, 14
Silent before the jury 167
Suppose it is nothing but the hive: 192
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Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions 73
Tell me, was Altgeld elected Governor? 164
The bank broke and I lost my savings. 159
The buzzards wheel slowly 155
The cooper should know about tubs. 68
The earth keeps some vibration going 62
The idea danced before us as a flag; 180
The press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked, 116
The secret of the stars— gravitation. 108
The sudden death of Eugene Carman 119
The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp 77
The white men played all sorts of jokes on me. 157
The: Prohibitionists made me Town Marshal 46
Their spirits beat upon mine 27
There by the window in the old house 188
There is something about 72
There would be a knock at the door 145
They brought me ambrotypes 189
They called me the weakling, the simpleton, 204
They first charged me with disorderly conduct, 79
They got me into the Sunday-school 94
They have chiseled on my stone the words: 16
They laughed at me as “Prof. Moon,” 208
They told me I had three months to live, 219
They would have lynched me 47
This I saw with my own eyes: A cliff—swallow 89
This weeping willow! 194
To all in the village I seemed, no doubt, 200
To be able to see every side of every question; 117
To this generation I would say: 87
Together in this grave lie Benjamin Pantier, attor 21
Toward the last 207
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