#Americans
After I got religion and steadied… They gave me a job in the canning… And every morning I had to fill The tank in the yard with gasoline… That fed the blow-fires in the she…
Well, don’t you see this was the w… We bought the farm with what he in… And his brothers and sisters accus… His fathers mind against the rest… And we never had any peace with ou…
When I died, the circulating libr… Which I built up for Spoon River… And managed for the good of inquir… Was sold at auction on the public… As if to destroy the last vestige
Almost the shell of a woman after… And almost a year to creep back in… Till the dawn of our wedding decen… Found me my seeming self again. We walked the forest together,
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
God! ask me not to record your won… I admit the stars and the suns And the countless worlds. But I have measured their distanc… And weighed them and discovered th…
Out of me unworthy and unknown The vibrations of deathless music; ‘With malice toward none, with cha… Out of me the forgiveness of milli… And the beneficient face of a nati…
As a boy, Theodore, you sat for l… On the shore of the turbid Spoon With deep-set eye staring at the d… Waiting for him to appear, pushing… First his waving antennae, like st…
I was the only child of Frances H… And Thomas Greene of Kentucky, Of valiant and honorable blood bot… To them I owe all that I became, Judge, member of Congress, leader…
Over and over they used to ask me, While buying the wine or the beer, In Peoria first, and later in Chi… Denver, Frisco, New York, wherev… How I happened to lead the life,
I was a gun-smith in Odessa. One night the police broke in the… Where a group of us were reading… And seized our books and arrested… But I escaped and came to New Yo…
Toward the last The truth of others was untruth to… The justice of others injustice to… Their reasons for death, reasons w… Their reasons for life, reasons wi…
Were you not ashamed, fellow citiz… When my estate was probated and ev… How small a fortune I left?— You who hounded me in life, To give, give, give to the churche…
I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was one of you, Spoon River, in… But standing for the rights of pro… A regular church attendant, Sometimes appearing in your town m…
I was attorney for the “Q” And the Indemnity Company which i… The owners of the mine. I pulled the wires with judge and… And the upper courts, to beat the…