#AmericanWriters
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…
Henry got me with child, Knowing that I could not bring fo… Without losing my own. In my youth therefore I entered t… Traveler, it is believed in the vi…
On a mountain top above the clouds That streamed like a sea below me I said that peak is the thought of… And that one is the prayer of Jes… And this one is the dream of Plat…
There at Geneva where Mt. Blanc… The wine-hued lake like a cloud, w… Out of an empty sky of blue, and t… Hurried under the bridge through c… And the music along the cafés was…
I never saw any difference Between playing cards for money And selling real estate, Practicing law, banking, or anythi… For everything is chance.
My wife lost her health, And dwindled until she weighed sca… Then that woman, whom the men Styled Cleopatra, came along. And we—we married ones
When Reuben Pantier ran away and… I went to Springfield. There I m… Whose father just deceased left hi… He married me when drunk. My life… A year passed and one day they fou…
I belonged to the church, And to the party of prohibition; And the villagers thought I died… In truth I had cirrhosis of the l… For every noon for thirty years,
I was the first fruits of the batt… When I felt the bullet enter my h… I wished I had staid at home and… For stealing the hogs of Curl Tre… Instead of running away and joinin…
I had no objection at all To selling my household effects at… On the village square. It gave my beloved flock the chanc… To get something which had belonge…
Only the chemist can tell, and not… What will result from compounding Fluids or solids. And who can tell How men and women will interact
I preached four thousand sermons, I conducted forty revivals, And baptized many converts. Yet no deed of mine Shines brighter in the memory of t…
Whoever thou art who passest by Know that my father was gentle, And my mother was violent, While I was born the whole of suc… Not intermixed and fused,
Why did Albert Schirding kill him… Trying to be County Superintenden… Blest as he was with the means of… And wonderful children, bringing h… Ere he was sixty?
I was not beloved of the villagers… But all because I spoke my mind, And met those who transgressed aga… With plain remonstrance, hiding no… Nor secret griefs nor grudges.