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| 2631. | Zilpha Marsh by Edgar Lee Masters | | At four o'clock in late October
I sat alone in the country school-house
Back from the road 'mid stricken fields,
And an eddy of wind blew leaves on... |
| 2632. | Hildrup Tubbs by Edgar Lee Masters | | I made two fights for the people.
First I left my party, bearing the gonfalon
Of independence, for reform, and was defeated.
Next I used my rebel s... |
| 2633. | Mrs. Benjamin Painter by Edgar Lee Masters | | I know that he told how I snared his soul
With a snare which bled him to death.
And all the men loved him,
And most of the women pitied him.
But s... |
| 2634. | Peleg Poague by Edgar Lee Masters | | Horses and men are just alike.
There was my stallion, Billy Lee,
Black as a cat and trim as a deer,
With an eye of fire, keen to start,
And he cou... |
| 2635. | Enoch Dunlap by Edgar Lee Masters | | How many times, during the twenty years
I was your leader, friends of Spoon River,
Did you neglect the convention and caucus,
And leave the burden ... |
| 2636. | Calvin Campbell by Edgar Lee Masters | | Ye who are kicking against Fate,
Tell me how it is that on this hill-side,
Running down to the river,
Which fronts the sun and the south-wind,
Thi... |
| 2637. | Lois Spears by Edgar Lee Masters | | Here lies the body of Lois Spears,
Born Lois Fluke, daughter of Willard Fluke,
Wife of Cyrus Spears,
Mother of Myrtle and Virgil Spears,
Children ... |
| 2638. | Paul McNeely by Edgar Lee Masters | | Dear Jane! dear winsome Jane!
How you stole in the room (where I lay so ill)
In your nurse's cap and linen cuffs,
And took my hand and said with a ... |
| 2639. | Homer Clapp by Edgar Lee Masters | | Often Aner Clute at the gate
Refused me the parting kiss,
Saying we should be engaged before that;
And just with a distant clasp of the hand
She b... |
| 2640. | Josiah Tompkins by Edgar Lee Masters | | I was well known and much beloved
And rich, as fortunes are reckoned
In Spoon River, where I had lived and worked.
That was the home for me,
Tho... |
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