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…

What but the love of God could ha… And made forgiving the people of… Toward me who wronged the bed of… And murdered him beside? Oh, loving hearts that took me in…

In youth my wings were strong and… But I did not know the mountains. In age I knew the mountains But my weary wings could not follo… Genius is wisdom and youth.

How did you feel, you libertarians… Who spent your talents rallying no… Around the saloon, as if Liberty Was not to be found anywhere excep… Or at a table, guzzling?

You never understood, O unknown o… Why it was I repaid Your devoted friendship and delica… First with diminished thanks, Afterward by gradually withdrawing…

A chaplain in the army, A chaplain in the prisons, An exhorter in Spoon River, Drunk with divinity, Spoon River— Yet bringing poor Eliza Johnson t…

The sudden death of Eugene Carman Put me in line to be promoted to f… And I told my wife and children t… But it didn’t come, and so I thou… Old Rhodes suspected me of steali…

Not character, not fortitude, not… Were mine, the which the village t… In bearing with my wife, while pre… Doing the work God chose for me. I loathed her as a termagant, as a…

Take note, passers-by, of the shar… Eaten in my head-stone by the wind… Almost as if an intangible Nemesi… Were marking scores against me, But to destroy, and not preserve,…

Do you remember, passer-by, the pa… I wore across the lot where now st… Hasting with swift feet to work th… Take its meaning to heart: You too may walk, after the hills…

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…

This weeping willow! Why do you not plant a few For the millions of children not y… As well as for us? Are they not non-existent, or cell…

‘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…

I lost my patronage in Spoon Rive… From trying to put my mind in the… To catch the soul of the person. The very best picture I ever took Was of Judge Somers, attorney at…

Ye young debaters over the doctrin… Of the soul’s immortality I who lie here was the village ath… Talkative, contentious, versed in… Of the infidels.