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’…

Deities! Inexorable revealers, Give me strength to endure The gifts of the Muses, Daughters of Memory.

Did you ever find out which of the boys it was Who snapped the toy pistol against… There when the flags were red and… In the breeze and “Bucky” Estil

I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitne… Or Kinsey Keene or Garrison Stan… For I tried the rights of propert… Although by lamp-light, for thirty… In that poker room in the opera ho…

You are over there, Father Malloy… Where holy ground is, and the cros… Not here with us on the hill— Us of wavering faith, and clouded… And drifting hope, and unforgiven…

I was the Sunday school superinte… The dummy president of the wagon w… And the canning factory, Acting for Thomas Rhodes and the… My son the cashier of the bank,

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…

‘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…

Do you remember, O Delphic Apoll… The sunset hour by the river, when… Cried, “There’s a ghost,” and I,… And the son of the banker derided… By the flags at the water’s edge,…

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…

She took my strength by minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon That saps the spinning world. The days went by like shadows,

We stand about this place—we, the… And shade our eyes because we drea… “June 17th, 1884, aged 21 years an… And all things are changed. And we—we, the memories, stand her…

Dust of my dust, And dust with my dust, O, child who died as you entered t… Dead with my death! Not knowing breath, though you tri…

Vegetarian, non-resistant, free-th… Orator apt at the rhine-stone rhyt… Carnivorous, avenger, believer and… Continent, promiscuous, changeable… Proud, with the pride that makes s…

It was only a little house of two… Almost like a child’s play-house— With scarce five acres of ground a… And I had so many children to fee… And school and clothe, and a wife…