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| 2621. | Roscoe Purkapile by Edgar Lee Masters | | She loved me. Oh! how she loved me!
I never had a chance to escape
From the day she first saw me.
But then after we were married I thought
She mig... |
| 2622. | Nancy Knapp by Edgar Lee Masters | | Well, don't you see this was the way of it:
We bought the farm with what he inherited,
And his brothers and sisters accused him of poisoning
His fa... |
| 2623. | Serepta Mason by Edgar Lee Masters | | My life's blossom might have bloomed on all sides
Save for a bitter wind which stunted my petals
On the side of me which you in the village could se... |
| 2624. | Reuben Pantier by Edgar Lee Masters | | Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted,
Your love was not all in vain.
I owe whatever I was in life
To your hope that would not give me u... |
| 2625. | Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edgar Lee Masters | | My father who owned the wagon-shop
And grew rich shoeing horses
Sent me to the University of Montreal.
I learned nothing and returned home,
Roamin... |
| 2626. | Dippold the Optician by Edgar Lee Masters | | What do you see now?
Globes of red, yellow, purple.
Just a moment! And now?
My father and mother and sisters.
Yes! And now?
Knights at arms,... |
| 2627. | Lydia Puckett by Edgar Lee Masters | | Knowlt Hoheimer ran away to the war
The day before Curl Trenary
Swore out a warrant through Justice Arnett
For stealing hogs.
But that's not the r... |
| 2628. | Benjamin Painter by Edgar Lee Masters | | Together in this grave lie Benjamin Painter, attorney at law,
And Nig, his dog, constant companion, solace and friend.
Down the grey road, friends... |
| 2629. | The Spooniad by Edgar Lee Masters | | [The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but unfortunately did not live to ... |
| 2630. | Pauline Barrett by Edgar Lee Masters | | Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon's knife!
And almost a year to creep back into strength,
Till the dawn of our wedding decennial
Found ... |
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