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| 2611. | Mrs. Purkapile by Edgar Lee Masters | | He ran away and was gone for a year.
When he came home he told me the silly story
Of being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan
And kept in chains... |
| 2612. | Percival Sharp by Edgar Lee Masters | | Observe the clasped hands!
Are they hands of farewell or greeting,
Hands that I helped or hands that helped me?
Would it not be well to carve a han... |
| 2613. | Lydia Humphrey by Edgar Lee Masters | | Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church,
With my Bible under my arm
Till I was gray and old;
Unwedded, alone in the world,
Finding ... |
| 2614. | Emily Sparks by Edgar Lee Masters | | Where is my boy, my boy --
In what far part of the world?
The boy I loved best of all in the school? --
I, the teacher, the old maid, the virgin he... |
| 2615. | Seth Compton by Edgar Lee Masters | | When I died, the circulating library
Which I built up for Spoon River,
And managed for the good of inquiring minds,
Was sold at auction on the publ... |
| 2616. | Cooney Potter by Edgar Lee Masters | | I inherited forty acres from my Father
And, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughters
From dawn to dusk, I acquired
A thousand acres. But n... |
| 2617. | Plymouth Rock Joe by Edgar Lee Masters | | Why are you running so fast hither and thither
Chasing midges or butterflies?
Some of you are standing solemnly scratching for grubs;
Some of you a... |
| 2618. | Captain Orlando Killion by Edgar Lee Masters | | Oh, you young radicals and dreamers,
You dauntless fledglings
Who pass by my headstone,
Mock not its record of my captaincy in the army
And my fai... |
| 2619. | Hod Putt by Edgar Lee Masters | | Here I lie close to the grave
Of Old Bill Piersol,
Who grew rich trading with the indians, and who
Afterwards took the bankrupt law
And emerge... |
| 2620. | Willie Pennington by Edgar Lee Masters | | They called me the weakling, the simpleton,
For my brothers were strong and beautiful,
While I, the last child of parents who had aged,
Inherited o... |
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