Both for the country and for the m… And for a country as well as a man… ’Tis better to be feared than love… And if this country would rather p… With the friendship of every natio…

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?

I began with Sir William Hamilto… Then studied Dugald Stewart; And then John Locke on the Under… And then Descartes, Fichte and S… Kant and then Schopenhauer—

I wanted to be County Judge One more term, so as to round out… Of thirty years. But my friends left me and joined… And they elected a new man.

I won the prize essay at school Here in the village, And published a novel before I wa… I went to the city for themes and… There married the banker’s daughte…

’Twas the shrunken soul of the tra… That whined in a coign of the dark… And the fiends were aroused from s… When Cerberus began to bark. ‘Methought that I spoke’ said Jul…

I would have been as great as Geo… But for an untoward fate. For look at the photograph of me m… Chin resting on hand, and deep-set… Gray, too, and far-searching.

To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of trut… It may serve a turn in your life. My husband had nothing to do With the fall of the bank—he was o…

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…

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…

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…

Herbert broke our engagement of ei… When Annabelle returned to the vi… From the Seminary, ah me! If I had let my love for him alon… It might have grown into a beautif…

I said when they handed me my dipl… I said to myself I will be good And wise and brave and helpful to… I said I will carry the Christian… Into the practice of medicine!

It is true, fellow citizens, That my old docket lying there for… On a shelf above my head and over The seat of justice, I say it is… That docket had an iron rim

Tell me ye King-craft of to-day Where is Athens, who made men fre… Then sank into stupor by the way, Subdued by the Spartan tyranny? And Rome that staggered to death,…