#AmericanWriters
Jonas Keene thought his lot a har… Because his children were all fail… But I know of a fate more trying… It is to be a failure while your c… For I raised a brood of eagles
It never came into my mind Until I was ready to die That Jenny had loved me to death,… For I was seventy, she was thirty… And I wore myself to a shadow try…
Maurice, weep not, I am not here… The balmy air of spring whispers t… The stars sparkle, the whippoorwil… But thou grievest, while my soul l… In the blest Nirvana of eternal l…
Nothing in life is alien to you: I was a penniless girl from Summu… Who stepped from the morning train… All the houses stood before me wit… And drawn shades—I was barred out…
The Prohibitionists made me Town… When the saloons were voted out, Because when I was a drinking man… Before I joined the church, I kil… At the saw-mill near Maple Grove.
As to democracy, fellow citizens, Are you not prepared to admit That I, who inherited riches and… Was second to none in Spoon River In my devotion to the cause of Li…
I was among multitudes of children Dancing at the foot of a mountain. A breeze blew out of the east and… Driving some up the slopes.... Al… Here were flying lights, and mysti…
I who kept the greenhouse, Lover of trees and flowers, Oft in life saw this umbrageous el… Measuring its generous branches wi… And listened to its rejoicing leav…
Their spirits beat upon mine Like the wings of a thousand butte… I closed my eyes and felt their sp… I closed my eyes, yet I knew when… Fringed their cheeks from downcast…
I would have been as great as Geo… But for an untoward fate. For look at the photograph of me m… Chin resting on hand, and deep-set… Gray, too, and far-searching.
A giant as we hoped, in truth, a d… A barrel of slop that shines on L… Which at first seemed a vessel wit… For thirsty lips. So down the swi… You went through sloven spirit, cr…
The press of the Spoon River Cla… And I was tarred and feathered, For publishing this on the day the… “I saw a beautiful woman with band… Standing on the steps of a marble…
She loved me. Oh! how she loved m… I never had a chance to escape From the day she first saw me. But then after we were married I… She might prove her mortality and…
When I went to the city, Mary Mc… I meant to return for you, yes I… But Laura, my landlady’s daughter… Stole into my life somehow, and wo… Then after some years whom should…
I said when they handed me my dipl… I said to myself I will be good And wise and brave and helpful to… I said I will carry the Christian… Into the practice of medicine!