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Edgar Lee Masters's Poetry, by title

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  • A.D. Blood
    If you in the village think that my work was a good one,
    Who closed the saloons and stopped all playing at cards,
    7 lines
  • Aaron Hatfield
    Better than granite, Spoon River,
    Is the memory-picture you keep of me
    24 lines
  • Abel Melveny
    I bought every kind of machine that's known --
    Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers,
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Ace Shaw
    I never saw any difference
    Between playing cards for money
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Adam Weirauch
    I was crushed between Altgeld and Armour.
    I lost many friends, much time and money
    19 lines
  • Albert Schirding
    Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one
    Because his children were all failures.
    15 lines
  • Alexander Throckmorton
    In youth my wings were strong and tireless,
    But I did not know the mountains.
    5 lines
  • Alfonso Churchill
    They laughed at me as "Prof. Moon,"
    As a boy in Spoon River, born with the thirst
    17 lines
  • Alfred Moir
    Why was I not devoured by self-contempt,
    And rotted down by indifference
    19 lines
  • Amanda Barker
    Henry got me with child,
    Knowing that I could not bring forth life
    8 lines
  • Amelia Garrick
    Yes, here I lie close to a stunted rose bush
    In a forgotten place near the fence
    18 lines
  • America
    Glorious daughter of time! Thou of the mild blue eye --
    Thou of the virginal forehead --pallid, unfurrowed of tears--
    50 lines
  • America In 1804
    (America Conquers Europe.)
    Foul shapes that hate the day, again grown bold,
    15 lines
  • America In 1904
    (Europe Conquers America.)
    Strong for the strong and in his own conceit;
    15 lines
  • Ami Green
    Not "a youth with hoary head and haggard eye,"
    But an old man with a smooth skin
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • Amos Sibley
    Not character, not fortitude, not patience
    Were mine, the which the village thought I had
    15 lines
  • Andy the Night-Watch
    In my Spanish cloak,
    And old slouch hat,
    18 lines
  • Aner Clute
    Over and over they used to ask me,
    While buying the wine or the beer,
    19 lines
  • Anne Rutledge
    Out of me unworthy and unknown
    The vibrations of deathless music;
    12 lines
  • Anthony Findlay
    Both for the country and for the man,
    And for a country as well as a man,
    20 lines
  • Archibald Higbie
    I loathed you, Spoon River. I tried to rise above you,
    I was ashamed of you. I despised you
    21 lines
  • Arlo Will
    Did you ever see an alligator
    Come up to the air from the mud,
    20 lines
  • Ballad Of Jesus Of Nazareth
    It matters not what place he drew
    At first life's mortal breath,
    903 lines
  • Ballad Of The Traitor’s Soul
    'Twas the shrunken soul of the traitor
    That whined in a coign of the dark;
    78 lines
  • Ballade Of Dead Republics
    Tell me ye King-craft of to-day
    Where is Athens, who made men free;
    33 lines
  • Banner Of Men Who Were Free
    Flag of the great republic, banner of men who were free!
    Carried aloft for freedom in many a bloody gorge;
    33 lines
  • Barney Hainsfeather
    If the excursion train to Peoria
    Had just been wrecked, I might have escaped with my life --
    9 lines, 1 comment
  • Barry Holden
    The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp
    Set fire to the house
    22 lines
  • Batterson Dobyns
    Did my widow flit about
    From Mackinac to Los Angeles,
    22 lines
  • Benjamin Fraser
    Their spirits beat upon mine
    Like the wings of a thousand butterflies.
    23 lines, 1 comment
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