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Edgar Lee Masters's Poetry, by popularity

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  • Supplication
    Oh Lord, when all our bones are thrust
    Beyond the gaze of all but Thine;
    70 lines
  • The Two Souls
    Two souls within this lunar cycle passed
    Beyond the curtained stage of life and time.
    55 lines
  • Samuel
    Hear then of brawn-armed Samuel,
    Fair-haired and heavy-jaw;
    68 lines
  • The World-Saver
    If the grim Fates, to stave ennui,
    Play whips for fun, or snares for game,
    63 lines
  • On A Picture Of John D. Rockefeller
    If thou, Columbia, dost from this, thy son--
    The condor beak and python eyes--recoil,
    13 lines
  • The Pioneer
    From the wide miles of autumn corn,
    Here to this sun-lit hill,
    78 lines
  • The Temple
    Beyond the gates of Hercules
    The seven builders took the stone,
    154 lines
  • Filipinos, Remember Us
    You, if it fall to you to take
    From us the lamp that Athens gave,
    63 lines
  • Memorabilia
    Old pioneers, how fare your souls to-day?
    They seem to be
    52 lines
  • Race Suicide
    "Get children," says Commodus. Why unbar
    The portals of the earth? Pre-natal dead
    3 lines
  • Hail! Master Death!
    When conquerors lift the bloody shield,
    Showing the fallen's ooze of life,
    34 lines
  • Epitaph For A Dead Senator
    Alas! he died when swill flowed far and near,
    While there were other pearls and deeper mud.
    3 lines
  • O Glorious France
    You have become a forge of snow-white fire,
    A crucible of molten steel, O France!
    69 lines
  • Samson And Delilah
    Because thou wast most delicate,
    A woman fair for men to see,
    241 lines
  • Silence
    I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,
    And the silence of the city when it pauses,
    74 lines
  • John Ballard
    In the lust of my strength
    I cursed God, but he paid no attention to me:
    18 lines
  • Many Soldiers
    The idea danced before us as a flag;
    The sound of martial music;
    23 lines
  • Herman Altman
    Did I follow Truth wherever she led,
    And stand against the whole world for a cause,
    21 lines
  • Imanuel Ehrenhardt
    I began with Sir William Hamilton's lectures.
    Then studied Dugald Stewart;
    15 lines
  • Gustav Richter
    After a long day of work in my hot-houses
    Sleep was sweet, but if you sleep on your left side
    25 lines
  • Caroline Branson
    With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked,
    As often before, the April fields till star-light
    45 lines
  • Lydia Humphrey
    Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church,
    With my Bible under my arm
    13 lines
  • William H. Herndon
    There by the window in the old house
    Perched on the bluff, overlooking miles of valley,
    26 lines
  • William Goode
    To all in the village I seemed, no doubt,
    To go this way and that way, aimlessly.
    13 lines
  • Zilpha Marsh
    At four o'clock in late October
    I sat alone in the country school-house
    24 lines
  • Le Roy Goldman
    "What will you do when you come to die,
    If all your life long you have rejected Jesus,
    16 lines
  • John Cabanis
    Neither spite, fellow citizens,
    Nor forgetfulness of the shiftlessness,
    20 lines
  • Eugene Carman
    Rhodes' slave! Selling shoes and gingham,
    Flour and bacon, overalls, clothing, all day long
    22 lines
  • Godwin James
    Harry Wilmans! You who fell in a swamp
    Near Manila, following the flag,
    27 lines
  • J. Milton Miles
    Whenever the Presbyterian bell
    Was rung by itself, I knew it as the Presbyterian bell.
    11 lines
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