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…

The cooper should know about tubs. But I learned about life as well, And you who loiter around these gr… Think you know life. You think your eye sweeps about a…

You have become a forge of snow-wh… A crucible of molten steel, O Fra… Your sons are stars who cluster to… And fade in light for you, O glor… They pass through meteor changes w…

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…

The very fall my sister Nancy Kna… Set fire to the house They were trying Dr. Duval For the murder of Zora Clemens, And I sat in the court two weeks

Suppose you stood just five feet t… And had worked your way as a groce… Studying law by candle light Until you became an attorney at la… And then suppose through your dili…

‘Get children,’ says Commodus. Wh… The portals of the earth? Pre-nat… If you had entered here the god of… Had slaughtered you to crown ambit…

They got me into the Sunday-schoo… In Spoon River And tried to get me to drop Confu… I could have been no worse off If I had tried to get them to dro…

He ran away and was gone for a yea… When he came home he told me the s… Of being kidnapped by pirates on… And kept in chains so he could not… I pretended to believe it, though…

I was just turned twenty-one, And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-sch… Made a speech in Bindle’s Opera… “The honor of the flag must be uph… “Whether it be assailed by a barba…

My mother was for woman’s rights And my father was the rich miller… I dreamed of the wrongs of the wor… When my father died, I set out to… In order to learn how to reform th…

Father, thou canst never know The anguish that smote my heart For my disobedience, the moment I… The remorseless wheel of the engin… Sink into the crying flesh of my l…

The bank broke and I lost my savi… I was sick of the tiresome game in… And I made up my mind to run away And leave my place in life and my… But just as the midnight train pul…

After you have enriched your soul To the highest point, With books, thought, suffering, th… The power to interpret glances, si… The pauses in momentous transforma…

Oh! the dew-wet grass of the meado… Through which Rebecca followed me… One child in her arms, and three t… Lengthening out the farewell to me… And then the long, hard years down…