Spoon River Anthology - Penn State University

Edgar Lee Masters
V
Vegetarian, non—resistant, free-thinker, in ethics 120
Very well, you liberals, 99
W
We quarreled that morning, 41
We stand about this place—we, the memories; 170
Well, don’t you see this was the way of it: 76
Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted, 23
Were you not ashamed, fellow citizens, 50
What but the love of God could have softened 168
What will you do when you come to die, 212
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came 48
When I died, the circulating library 151
When I first came to Spoon River 153
When I went to the city, Mary McNeely, 97
When my moustache curled, 57
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me 70
Whenever the Presbyterian bell 201
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley, 10
Where is my boy, my boy 24
While I was handling Dom Pedro 101
Who carved this shattered harp on my stone? 216
Whoever thou art who passest by 174
Why did Albert Schirding kill himself 93
Why was I not devoured by self-contempt, 162
With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but wal 183
Y
Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unkno 113
Ye who are kicking against Fate, 173
Ye young debaters over the doctrine 205
Yes, here I lie close to a stunted rose bush 111
You are over there, Father Malloy, 171
You may think, passer-by, that Fate 182
You never understood, 175
You would not believe, would you 29
Your red blossoms amid green leaves 187
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