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Edgar Lee Masters's Poetry, by first line

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  • Silence
    I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,
    And the silence of the city when it pauses,
    74 lines
  • Griffy the Cooper
    The cooper should know about tubs.
    But I learned about life as well,
    15 lines
  • Scholfield Huxley
    God! ask me not to record your wonders,
    I admit the stars and the suns
    23 lines
  • Rutherford McDowell
    They brought me ambrotypes
    Of the old pioneers to enlarge.
    26 lines
  • Dippold the Optician
    What do you see now?
    Globes of red, yellow, purple.
    27 lines
  • Josiah Tompkins
    I was well known and much beloved
    And rich, as fortunes are reckoned
    18 lines
  • Ernest Hyde
    My mind was a mirror:
    It saw what it saw, it knew what it knew.
    15 lines
  • John Horace Burleson
    I won the prize essay at school
    Here in the village,
    17 lines
  • Elizabeth Childers
    Dust of my dust,
    And dust with my dust,
    26 lines
  • Richard Bone
    When I first came to Spoon River
    I did not know whether what they told me
    18 lines, 3 comments
  • Bert Kessler
    I winged my bird,
    Though he flew toward the setting sun;
    20 lines
  • Mrs. Kessler
    Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army,
    And he drew six dollars a month as a pension,
    21 lines
  • Petit, the Poet
    Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,
    Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a quarrel--
    18 lines
  • Anne Rutledge
    Out of me unworthy and unknown
    The vibrations of deathless music;
    12 lines
  • Fiddler Jones
    The earth keeps some vibration going
    There in your heart, and that is you.
    26 lines
  • Knowlt Hoheimer
    I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge.
    When I felt the bullet enter my heart
    10 lines
  • Lucinda Matlock
    I went to the dances at Chandlerville,
    And played snap-out at Winchester.
    22 lines
  • Mrs. Benjamin Painter
    I know that he told how I snared his soul
    With a snare which bled him to death.
    20 lines
  • Benjamin Painter
    Together in this grave lie Benjamin Painter, attorney at law,
    And Nig, his dog, constant companion, solace and friend.
    12 lines
  • Kinsey Keene
    Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, president of the bank;
    Coolbaugh Wedon, editor of the Argus;
    23 lines
  • Judge Somers
    How does it happen, tell me,
    That I who was the most erudite of lawyers,
    12 lines
  • Harry Carey Goodhue
    You never marveled, dullards of Spoon River,
    When Chase Henry voted against the saloons
    25 lines
  • Chase Henry
    In my life I was the town drunkard;
    When I died the priest denied me burial
    11 lines
  • Constance Hately
    You praise my self-sacrifice, Spoon River,
    In rearing Irene and Mary,
    10 lines
  • Amanda Barker
    Henry got me with child,
    Knowing that I could not bring forth life
    8 lines
  • Serepta Mason
    My life's blossom might have bloomed on all sides
    Save for a bitter wind which stunted my petals
    9 lines
  • Cassius Hueffer
    They have Chiseled on my stone the words:
    'His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him
    14 lines
  • Robert Fulton Tanner
    If a man could bite the giant hand
    That catches and destroys him,
    22 lines
  • Fletcher McGee
    She took my strength by minutes,
    She took my life by hours,
    24 lines
  • Ollie McGee
    Have you seen walking through the village
    A man with downcast eyes and haggard face?
    11 lines
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