When conquerors lift the bloody sh… Showing the fallen’s ooze of life, And on a waste of blasted field Joy quickens to the drum and fife, Then the weird brood of flame and…

I ran away from home with the circ… Having fallen in love with Mademo… The lion tamer. One time, having starved the lions For more than a day,

At first I suspected something— She acted so calm and absent-minde… And one day I heard the back door… As I entered the front, and I saw… Back of the smokehouse into the lo…

Do you think that odes and sermons… And the ringing of church bells, And the blood of old men and young… Martyred for the truth they saw With eyes made bright by faith in…

My parents thought that I would b… As great as Edison or greater: For as a boy I made balloons And wondrous kites and toys with c… And little engines with tracks to…

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…

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…

A step-mother drove me from home,… A squaw-man, a flaneur and diletta… For years I was his mistress—no o… I learned from him the parasite cu… With which I moved with the bluff…

You would not believe, would you That I came from good Welsh stock… That I was purer blooded than the… And of more direct lineage than th… And Virginians of Spoon River?

How does it happen, tell me, That I who was the most erudite o… Who knew Blackstone and Coke Almost by heart, who made the grea… The court-house ever heard, and wr…

Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, ti… Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a… Faint iambics that the full breeze… But the pine tree makes a symphony… Triolets, villanelles, rondels, ro…

I was a peasant girl from Germany… Blue-eyed, rosy, happy and strong. And the first place I worked was… On a summer’s day when she was awa… He stole into the kitchen and took…

How many times, during the twenty… I was your leader, friends of Spo… Did you neglect the convention and… And leave the burden on my hands Of guarding and saving the people’…

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…

Often Aner Clute at the gate Refused me the parting kiss, Saying we should be engaged before… And just with a distant clasp of t… She bade me good-night, as I brou…