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Edgar Lee Masters

August 23, 1868, — March 5, 1950

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	Poem Title	First Lines	Period	# Lines	# Reads
1:	A Study	If your thoughts were as clear as your eyes,		64	81
2:	A. D. Blood	If you in the village think that my work was a good one,		7	46
3:	Aaron Hatfield	Better than granite, Spoon River,		24	36
4:	Abel Melveny	I bought every kind of machine that's known -		18	34
5:	Ace" Shaw	I never saw any difference		8	37
6:	Adam Weirauch	I was crushed between Altgeld and Armour.		18	37
7:	Albert Schirding	Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one		16	36
8:	Alfonso Churchill	They laughed at me as "Prof. Moon,"		17	36
9:	Alfred Moir	Why was I not devoured by self-contempt,		18	41
10:	All Life In A Life	His father had a large family		222	76
11:	Alma Bell To The Coroner	What my name is, or where I live, or if		254	31
12:	Amanda Barker	Henry got me with child,		8	44
13:	Amelia Garrick	Yes, here I lie close to a stunted rose bush		18	28
14:	Ami Green	Not "a youth with hoary head and haggard eye",		12	41
15:	Amos Sibley	Not character, not fortitude, not patience		16	0
16:	Aner Clute	Over and over they used to ask me,		19	37
17:	Anne Rutledge	Out of me unworthy and unknown		11	43
18:	Anton Sosnowski	Anton Sosnowski, from the Shakspeare School		175	33
19:	Arabel	Twists of smoke rise from the limpness of jewelled fingers,		171	73
20:	Archibald Higbie	I loathed you, Spoon River.		23	32
21:	Archibald Lowell	Archibald Lowell, owner of the Times		253	39
22:	Arlo Will	Did you ever see an alligator		20	33
23:	At Fairbanks	Bill, look here! Here's the Times. You see this picture,		243	34
24:	At Nice	Dear, let me tell you, safe beside you now,		448	36
25:	Ballad Of Launcelot And Elaine	It was a hermit on Whitsunday		208	37
26:	Barrett Bays	I was walking by the river," Barrett said,		1045	30
27:	Barry Holden	The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp		22	31
28:	Benjamin Fraser	Their spirits beat upon mine		23	38
29:	Benjamin Pantier	Together in this grave lie Benjamin Pantier, attorney at law,		12	69
30:	Bert Kessler	I winged my bird,		20	32
31:	Bertrand And Gourgaud Talk Over Old Times	Gourgaud, these tears are tears - but look, this laugh,		273	35
32:	Black Eagle Returns To St. Joe	This way and that way measuring,		200	35
33:	Blind Jack	I had fiddled all day at the county fair.		13	34
34:	Botanical Gardens	He follows me no more, I said, nor stands		193	39
35:	Butch" Weldy	After I got religion and steadied down		21	30
36:	Calvin Campbell	Ye who are kicking against Fate,		15	38
37:	Canticle Of The Race	How beautiful are the bodies of men		112	33
38:	Captain Orlando Killion	Oh, you young radicals and dreamers,		21	41
39:	Carl Hamblin	The press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked,		25	38
40:	Caroline Branson	With our hearts like drifting suns, had we but walked,		44	30
41:	Cassius Hueffer	They have chiseled on my stone the words:		14	38
42:	Charles Warren, The Sheriff	I have seen twenty men hanged, hung myself		401	28
43:	Charlie French	Did You ever find out		15	37
44:	Chase Henry	In life I was the town drunkard;		14	28
45:	Christmas At Indian Point	Who is that calling through the night,		76	32
46:	Cities Of The Plain	Where are the cabalists, the insidious committees,		85	27
47:	Clarence Fawcett	The sudden death of Eugene Carman		20	40
48:	Columbus Cheney	This weeping willow!		26	32
49:	Consider Freeland	Look at that tract of land there - five good acres		208	32
50:	Cooney Potter	I inherited forty acres from my Father		13	29
51:	Dahlias	The mad wind is the warden,		16	42
52:	Daisy Fraser	Did you ever hear of Editor Whedon		19	39
53:	Daniel M'Cumber	When I went to the city, Mary McNeely,		18	34
54:	Davis Matlock	Suppose it is nothing but the hive:		20	33
55:	Deacon Taylor	I belonged to the church,		9	34
56:	Dear Old Dick	Said dear old Dick		99	37
57:	Delilah	Because thou wast most delicate,		195	39
58:	Dialogue At Perko's	Look here, Jack:		191	27
59:	Dillard Sissman	The buzzards wheel slowly		22	32
60:	Doc Hill	I went up and down the streets		13	34
61:	Doctor Meyers	No other man, unless it was Doc Hill,		14	35
62:	Domesday Book	Take any life you choose and study it:	1921	97	27
63:	Dora Williams	When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me		25	28
64:	Dorcas Gustine	I was not beloved of the villagers,		14	33
65:	Dow Kritt	Samuel is forever talking of his elm -		14	39
66:	Dr. Burke	You've heard of potters' wheels and potters' hands.		312	29
67:	Dr. Scudder's Clinical Lecture	I lectured last upon the morbus sacer,		516	36
68:	Dr. Trace To The Coroner	I cannot tell you, Coroner, the cause		133	29
69:	Draw The Sword, O Republic!	By the blue sky of a clear vision,		49	50
70:	E. C. Culbertson	Is it true, Spoon River,		21	38
71:	Edith Conant	We stand about this place - we, the memories;		22	33
72:	Editor Whedon	To be able to see every side of every question;		25	30
73:	Edmund Pollard	I would I had thrust my hands of flesh		22	36
74:	Elenor Murray	Coroner Merival took the hundred letters		596	27
75:	Elijah Browning	I was among multitudes of children		43	32
76:	Elizabeth Childers	Dust of my dust,		30	42
77:	Elliott Hawkins	I looked like Abraham Lincoln.		25	43
78:	Elmer Karr	What but the love of God could have softened		10	41
79:	Elsa Wertman	I was a peasant girl from Germany,		24	30
80:	Emily Sparks	Where is my boy, my boy		19	31
81:	Enoch Dunlap	How many times, during the twenty years		19	38
82:	Ernest Hyde	My mind was a mirror:		14	30
83:	Eugene Carman	Rhodes, slave! Selling shoes and gingham,		22	38
84:	Excluded Middle	Out of the mercury shimmer of glass		406	33
85:	Ezra Bartlett	A chaplain in the army,		17	33
86:	Faith Matheny	At first you will know not what they mean,		19	32
87:	Father Malloy	You are over there, Father Malloy,		23	31
88:	Father Whimsett	Looking like Raphael's Perugino, eyes		276	28
89:	Felix Schmidt	It was only a little house of two rooms -		22	29
90:	Fiddler Jones	The earth keeps some vibration going		26	24
91:	Finding Of The Body	Elenor Murray, daughter of Henry Murray,	1921	106	32
92:	Fletcher McGee	She took my strength by minutes,		24	35
93:	Flossie Cabanis	From Bindle's opera house in the village		16	71
94:	For A Dance	There is in the dance		28	89
95:	France	France fallen! France arisen! France of the brave!		14	36
96:	Francis Turner	I could not run or play		12	33
97:	Frank Drummer	Out of a cell into this darkened space -		8	30
98:	Franklin Jones	If I could have lived another year		11	35
99:	Friar Yves	Said Friar Yves: "God will bless		185	37
100:	Front The Ages With A Smile	How did the sculptor, Voltaire, keep you quiet and posed		85	37
101:	George Gray	I have studied many times		16	36
102:	George Joslin On La Menken	Here, Coroner Merival, look at this picture!		283	27
103:	George Trimble	Do you remember when I stood on the steps		13	29
104:	Georgine Sand Miner	A stepmother drove me from home, embittering me.		26	40
105:	Godwin James	Harry Wilmans! You who fell in a swamp		29	35
106:	Gottlieb Gerald	I knew her, why of course. And you want me?		274	31
107:	Granville Calhoun	I wanted to be County Judge		19	34
108:	Gregory Wenner	Gregory Wenner's brother married the mother		361	32
109:	Griffy the Cooper	The cooper should know about tubs.		15	30
110:	Gustav Richter	After a long day of work in my hot - houses		26	36
111:	Hamilton Greene	I was the only child of Frances Harris of Virginia		10	35
112:	Hamlet Micure	In a lingering fever many visions come to you:		24	34
113:	Hannah Armstrong	I wrote him a letter asking him for old times, sake		23	37
114:	Hare Drummer	Do the boys and girls still go to Siever's		20	29
115:	Harlan Sewall	You never understood,		23	29
116:	Harmon Whitney	Out of the lights and roar of cities,		27	41
117:	Harold Arnett	I leaned against the mantel, sick, sick,		17	29
118:	Harry Wilmans	I was just turned twenty-one,		28	36
119:	Heaven Is But The Hour	Eyes wide for wisdom, calm for joy or pain,		142	32
120:	Helen Of Troy	This is the vase of Love		54	58
121:	Henry Baker, At New York	One partner may consult another - James,		267	28
122:	Henry C. Calhoun	I reached the highest place in Spoon River,		22	39
123:	Henry Layton	Whoever thou art who passest by		13	26
124:	Henry Murray	Henry Murray, father of Elenor Murray,		349	28
125:	Henry Phipps	I was the Sunday-school superintendent,		32	24
126:	Henry Tripp	The bank broke and I lost my savings.		25	26
127:	Herbert Marshall	All your sorrow, Louise, and hatred of me		15	29
128:	Hildrup Tubbs	I Made two fights for the people.		19	31
129:	Hiram Scates	I tried to win the nomination		27	36
130:	Hod Putt	Here I lie close to the grave		13	33
131:	Homer Clapp	Often Aner Clute at the gate		19	33
132:	Hon. Henry Bennett	It never came into my mind		14	32
133:	Hortense Robbins	My name used to be in the papers daily		12	31
134:	I Pay My Debt For Lafayette And Rochambeau	Eagle, whose fearless		36	38
135:	Ida Frickey	Nothing in life is alien to you:		23	30
136:	Imanuel Ehrenhardt	I began with Sir William Hamilton's lectures.		15	31
137:	In Michigan	Come over to Saugatuck		254	26
138:	In The Cage	The sounds of mid-night trickle into the roar		101	82
139:	In The Car	We paused to say good-by,		32	77
140:	In The Garden At The Dawn Hour	I arise in the silence of the dawn hour.		64	31
141:	Indignation" Jones	You would not believe, would you		24	36
142:	Ippolit Konovaloff	I was a gun-smith in Odessa.		22	32
143:	Irma Leese	Elenor Murray landing in New York,		271	35
144:	Isaiah Beethoven	They told me I had three months to live,		27	34
145:	J. Milton Miles	Whenever the Presbyterian bell		12	31
146:	Jack McGuire	They would have lynched me		20	36
147:	Jacob Godbey	How did you feel, you libertarians,		19	37
148:	Jacob Goodpasture	When Fort Sumter fell and the war came		22	31
149:	James Garber	Do you remember, passer-by, the path		24	34
150:	Jane Fisher	Jane Fisher says to Susan Hamilton,		193	40
151:	Jeduthan Hawley	There would be a knock at the door		19	28
152:	Jefferson Howard	My valiant fight! For I call it valiant,		23	34
153:	Jennie M'Grew	Not, where the stairway turns in the dark		15	34
154:	Jim And Arabel's Sister	Last night a friend of mine and I sat talking,		208	64
155:	Jim Brown	While I was handling Dom Pedro		19	24
156:	John Ballard	In the lust of my strength		18	31
157:	John Campbell And Carl Eaton	Carl Eaton and John Campbell both were raised		619	32
158:	John Hancock Otis	As to democracy, fellow citizens,		19	32
159:	John Horace Burleson	I won the prize essay at school		17	32
160:	John M. Church	I was attorney for the "Q"		12	30
161:	John Scofield	You see I worked for Arthur Fouche, he said,		139	32
162:	John Wasson	Oh! the dew-wet grass of the meadow in North Carolina		19	31
163:	Johnnie Sayre	Father, thou canst never know		13	31
164:	Johnny Appleseed	When the air of October is sweet and cold as the wine of apples		48	36
165:	Jonas Keene	Why did Albert Schirding kill himself		10	35
166:	Jonathan Swift Somers (Author of the Spooniad)	After you have enriched your soul		16	39
167:	Joseph Dixon	Who carved this shattered harp on my stone?		17	36
168:	Josiah Tompkins	I was well known and much beloved		18	28
169:	Judge Somers	How does it happen, tell me,		12	29
170:	Julia Miller	We quarreled that morning,		14	30
171:	Julian Scott	Toward the last		15	40
172:	Knowlt Hoheimer	I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge.		9	36
173:	Lake Boats	And under the shadows of cliffs of brick		5	34
174:	Lambert Hutchins	I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk:		26	33
175:	Le Roy Goldman	What will you do when you come to die,		17	38
176:	Lilli Alm	In Lola Schaefer's studio in the Tower,		153	34
177:	Lillian Stewart	I was the daughter of Lambert Hutchins,		22	25
178:	Louise Smith	Herbert broke our engagement of eight years		14	29
179:	Love Is A Madness	Love is a madness, love is a fevered dream,		12	94
180:	Loveridge Chase	Here is the secret of the death of Elenor,		66	37
181:	Lucinda Matlock	I went to the dances at Chandlerville,		25	28
182:	Lucius Atherton	When my moustache curled,		20	33
183:	Lydia Humphrey	Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church,		13	41
184:	Lydia Puckett	Knowlt Hoheimer ran away to the war		10	34
185:	Lyman King	You may think, passer-by, that Fate		14	32
186:	Mabel Osborne	Your red blossoms amid green leaves		19	44
187:	Madeline	I almost heard your little heart		24	32
188:	Magrady Graham	Tell me, was Altgeld elected Governor?		19	28
189:	Many Soldiers	The idea danced before us as a flag;		23	36
190:	Marcia	Madeline's hair is straight and yours		20	32
191:	Margaret Fuller Slack	I would have been as great as George Eliot		17	30
192:	Mary McNeely	Passer-By,		18	33
193:	Mickey M'Grew	It was just like everything else in life:		17	27
194:	Minerva Jones	I am Minerva, the village poetess,		12	27
195:	Mirage Of The Desert	Well, there's the brazier set by the temple door:		16	39
196:	Miriam Fay's Letter	Elenor Murray asked to go in training		193	27
197:	Mrs. Benjamin Pantier	I know that he told that I snared his soul		20	33
198:	Mrs. Charles Bliss	Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce him		20	31
199:	Mrs. George Reece	To this generation I would say:		14	39
200:	Mrs. Gregory Wenner	Gregory Wenner's wife was by the sea		233	38
201:	Mrs. Kessler	Mr. Kessler, you know, was in the army,		21	33
202:	Mrs. Merritt	Silent before the jury		17	33
203:	Mrs. Meyers	He protested all his life long		11	31
204:	Mrs. Murray	I think, she said at first,		412	36
205:	Mrs. Purkapile	He ran away and was gone for a year.		14	32
206:	Mrs. Sibley	The secret of the stars - gravitation.		7	31
207:	Mrs. Williams	I was the milliner		27	27
208:	My Light With Yours	When the sea has devoured the ships,		17	38
209:	Nancy Knapp	Well, don't you see this was the way of it:		20	36
210:	Neanderthal	Then what is life?" I cried. And with that cry		192	39
211:	Nellie Clark	I was only eight years old;		15	35
212:	Nicholas Bindle	Were you not ashamed, fellow citizens,		11	31
213:	O Glorious France	You have become a forge of snow white fire,		66	85
214:	Oaks Tutt	My mother was for woman's rights		24	34
215:	Ollie McGee	Have you seen walking through the village		11	29
216:	On A Bust	Your speeches seemed to answer for the nonce,		60	64
217:	Oscar Hummel	I staggered on through darkness,		18	32
218:	Pauline Barrett	Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon's knife		24	23
219:	Peleg Poague	Horses and men are just alike.		17	33
220:	Penniwit, the Artist	I lost my patronage in Spoon River		11	33
221:	Percival Sharp	Observe the clasped hands!		27	38
222:	Percy Bysshe Shelley	My father who owned the wagon-shop		15	39
223:	Perry Zoll	My thanks, friends of the		15	34
224:	Petit, the Poet	Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,		17	35
225:	Poor Pierrot	Here far away from the city, here by the yellow dunes		16	34
226:	Portrait Of A Woman	The pathos in your face is like a peace,		70	68
227:	Professor Newcomer	Everyone laughed at Col. Prichard		16	32
228:	Rain In My Heart	There is a quiet in my heart		16	84
229:	Ralph Rhodes	All they said was true:		23	31
230:	Recessional In Time Of War	Even as I see, and share with you in seeing,		40	36
231:	Reuben Pantier	Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted,		25	37
232:	Rev. Abner Peet	I had no objection at all		14	43
233:	Rev. Lemuel Wiley	I preached four thousand sermons,		14	31
234:	Rev. Percy Ferguson	The Rev. Percy Ferguson, patrician		229	25
235:	Richard Bone	When I first came to Spoon River		18	34
236:	Robert Davidson	I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men.		19	31
237:	Robert Fulton Tanner	If a man could bite the giant hand		11	35
238:	Roger Heston	Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I		12	34
239:	Roscoe Purkapile	She loved me.		19	42
240:	Rosie Roberts	I was sick, but more than that, I was mad		15	27
241:	Roy Butler	If the learned Supreme Court of Illinois		22	35
242:	Russell Kincaid	In the last spring I ever knew,		20	37
243:	Russian Sonia	I, born in Weimar		29	38
244:	Rutherford McDowell	They brought me ambrotypes		26	28
245:	Sam Hookey	I ran away from home with the circus,		13	31
246:	Samuel Butler Et Al.	Let me consider your emergence		181	29
247:	Samuel Gardner	I who kept the greenhouse,		21	36
248:	Sarah Brown	Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree.		12	45
249:	Saving A Woman: One Phase	To a lustful thirst she came at first		36	81
250:	Searcy Foote	I wanted to go away to college		28	35
251:	Serepta Mason	My life's blossom might have bloomed on all sides		9	34
252:	Seth Compton	When I died, the circulating library		19	34
253:	Shack Dye	The white men played all sorts of jokes on me.		20	39
254:	Silas Dement	It was moon-light, and the earth sparkled		25	36
255:	Silence	I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,		72	61
256:	Simon Surnamed Peter	Time that has lifted you over them all,		79	68
257:	Sir Galahad	I met Hosea Job on Randolph Street		217	32
258:	So We Grew Together	Reading over your letters I find you wrote me		251	70
259:	Something Beyond The Hill	To a western breeze		38	31
260:	Soul's Desire	Her soul is like a wolf that stands		48	36
261:	St. Deseret	You wonder at my bright round eyes, my lips		178	33
262:	St. Francis And Lady Clare	Antonio loved the Lady Clare.		140	61
263:	State's Attorney Fallas	I, the scourge-wielder, balance-wrecker,		16	38
264:	Supplication	Oh Lord, when all our bones are thrust		64	26
265:	Sweet Clover	Only a few plants up - and not a blossom		43	32
266:	Tennessee Claflin Shope	I was the laughing-stock of the village,		15	29
267:	Terminus	Terminus shows the ways and says,		44	26
268:	The Altar	My heart is an altar whereon		48	34
269:	The Answer	I made my bed beneath the pines		20	64
270:	The Awakening	When you lie sleeping; golden hair		19	76
271:	The Birth Of Elenor Murray	What are the mortal facts	1921	137	30
272:	The Bishop's Dream Of The Holy Sepulchre	A lassie sells the War Cry on the corner		271	45
273:	The Blind	Amid the din of cars and automobiles,		30	43
274:	The Circuit Judge	Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions		15	30
275:	The City	The Sun hung like a red balloon		180	63
276:	The Cocked Hat	It ain't really a hat at all, Ed:		180	45
277:	The Convent	Elenor Murray stole away from Nice		193	25
278:	The Conversation	You knew then, starting let us say with ether,		118	27
279:	The Coroner	Merival, of a mother fair and good,		286	31
280:	The Cry	There's a voice in my heart that cries and cries for tears.		15	74
281:	The Death Of Sir Launcelot	Sir Launcelot had fled to France		149	26
282:	The Door	This is the room that thou wast ushered in.		16	82
283:	The Eighth Crusade	June, but we kept the fire place piled with logs,		335	34
284:	The End Of The Search	There's the dragon banner, says Old King Cole,		160	35
285:	The Governor	I'm home at last. How long were you asleep?		180	31
286:	The Grand River Marshes	Silvers and purples breathing in a sky		63	35
287:	The Helping Hand	Mother, my head is bloody, my breast is red with scars.		12	89
288:	The Hill	Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,		37	21
289:	The House That Jack Built	Why don't they come to me to find the cause		454	25
290:	The Idiot	Two children in a garden		52	82
291:	The Jury Deliberates	The jurymen are seated here and there		527	25
292:	The Landscape	You and your landscape! There it lies		194	36
293:	The Letter	What does one gain by living? What by dying		110	37
294:	The Loom	My brother, the god, and I grow sick		88	29
295:	The Loop	From State street bridge a snow-white glimpse of sea		202	78
296:	The Major And Elenor Murray At Nice	Elenor Murray and Petain, the major,		188	33
297:	The Question	The sea moans and the stars are bright,		15	77
298:	The Room Of Mirrors	I saw a room where many feet were dancing.		55	35
299:	The Sign	There's not a soul on the square,		26	68
300:	The Sorrow Of Dead Faces	I have seen many faces changed by the Sculptor Death,		30	79
301:	The Spooniad	Of John Cabanis, wrath and of the strife		388	34
302:	The Star	I am a certain god		163	34
303:	The Town Marshal	The Prohibitionists made me Town Marshal		17	37
304:	The Unknown	Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknown		21	27
305:	The Verdict	An inquisition taken for the people		27	38
306:	The Village Atheist	Ye young debaters over the doctrine		17	35
307:	The Vision	Of that dear vale where you and I have lain		69	50
308:	The World-Saver	If the grim Fates, to stave ennui,		271	39
309:	Theodore the Poet	As a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours		17	34
310:	Thomas Rhodes	Very well, you liberals,		13	25
311:	Thomas Ross, Jr.	This I saw with my own eyes: A cliff - swallow		18	28
312:	Thomas Trevelyan	Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys,		18	35
313:	To-Morrow Is My Birthday	Well, then, another drink! Ben Jonson knows,		404	27
314:	Tom Beatty	I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney		21	35
315:	Tom Merritt	At first I suspected something -		13	33
316:	Toward The Gulf	From the Cordilleran Highlands,		285	36
317:	Trainor, the Druggist	Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist,		13	26
318:	Victor Rafolski On Art	You dull Goliaths clothed in coats of blue,		213	28
319:	W. Lloyd Garrison Standard	Vegetarian, non - resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a Christian;		19	24
320:	Walter Simmons	My parents thought that I would be		23	32
321:	Washington McNeely	Rich, honored by my fellow citizens,		26	31
322:	Webster Ford	Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo,		31	29
323:	Wendell P. Bloyd	They first charged me with disorderly conduct,		22	31
324:	What You Will	April rain, delicious weeping,		12	80
325:	When Life Is Real	We rode, we rode against the wind.		36	91
326:	When Under The Icy Eaves	When under the icy eaves		20	77
327:	Widow Fortelka	Marie Fortelka, widow, mother of Josef,		220	34
328:	Widow La Rue	What will happen, Widow La Rue?		239	29
329:	Widow McFarlane	I was the Widow McFarlane,		21	29
330:	Will Paget On Demos And Hogos	To Coroner Merival, greetings, but a voice		203	26
331:	Willard Fluke	My wife lost her health,		19	32
332:	William and Emily	There is something about		12	32
333:	William Goode	To all in the village I seemed, no doubt,		13	29
334:	William H. Herndon	There by the window in the old house		27	33
335:	William Jones	Once in a while a curious weed unknown to me,		15	32
336:	William Marion Reedy	He sits before you silent as Buddha,		72	67
337:	Willie Metcalf	I was Willie Metcalf.		25	30
338:	Willie Pennington	They called me the weakling, the simpleton,		15	37
339:	Yee Bow	They got me into the Sunday-school		14	35
340:	Zenas Witt	I was sixteen, and I had the most terrible dreams,		17	38
341:	Zilpha Marsh	At four o'clock in late October		24	43

About:
Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.

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