Domesday Book

Dear, let me tell you, safe beside you now, Your hand in mine, here from this peak of sand, Under this pine tree, where the wild grapes spill Their fragrance on the lake breeze,...

I'm home at last. How long were you asleep? I startled you. The time? It's midnight past. Put on your slippers and your robe, my dear, And make some coffee for me--what a night!...

For the rest, Suppose I told you all my life, and told What was my waste in life and what in hers, How I have lived, and how poor Elenor Was raised or half-raised--what's the go...

And thus when on a time A miner lost his life there at LeRoy, And when the inquest found the man was killed Through carelessness of self, while full of drink, Merival, knowing t...

Bill, look here! Here's the _Times_. You see this picture, Read if you like a little later. You never Heard how I came to Fairbanks, chanced to stay. It's eight years now. You s...

This is foolish talk I know you think, I think it is myself, At least in part. I know I'm right, however, In guessing off the reason of her failure, If failure it is. But pshaw,...

"For it's true Nature, or God, gives birth and also death. And power has never come to draw the sting Of death or make it pleasant, creed nor faith Prevents disease, old age and...

And then The Reverend Maiworm juryman spoke up-- This Mary Black had left the witness chair-- And asked if Gregory Wenner went to France. The coroner thought not, but would inqu...

Well, you have a war. We used to say in foot ball kick their shins, And gouge their eyes out--when our shins were kicked We hollered foul and ouch. There was the south Who calle...

"The days go swiftly by With study and with work. I am too tired At night to think. I read anatomy, Materia medica and other things, And do the work an undergraduate Is called u...

"To begin I met her there in Paris. In a trice We loved each other, wrote, made vows, she pledged The consummation. There was danger here, Great danger, as you know, for her and...

"Then, at last A chum I had began to laugh at me, For, I was now in love with Elenor Murray. Don't let her make a fool of you, he said, No girl who ever traveled with Roy Green...

"She was alone, Unsettled and unhappy, pressed for funds. She had, it seemed, nursed Janet without pay Till Charles made good at last the weekly wage; Since Janet's illness had...

Kingston had a daughter Married to Colonel Burton in Kentucky. And Kingston's son was in the Civil War. But just before the war, the Burtons deeded These acres here, which she i...

And on this foggy day When Widow Fortelka reads in the _Times_ That Lowell, the editor, is dead, he sits With feet wrapped in a quilt and gets his breath With open mouth, his fa...

Well, then your marriage counter Could scarcely ask: What is your aim in life? You clerk now in a drug store, you aspire To be a lawyer, if you find yourself Stopped on your way...

Elenor Murray asked to go in training And came to see me, but the school was full, We could not take her. Then she asked to stand Upon a list and wait, I put her off. She came b...

"Well, now Why did I turn to Gregory from you? I did not love you or I had not done it. You did not love me or I had not done it. I loved him once, he had been good to me. He wa...

"The 'Spoon River Anthology' has certain qualities essential to greatness--originality of conception and treatment, a daring that would soar to the stars, an instant felicity an...

These two months passed I found I had not killed desire--found Among a group a chance to try again For happiness, but knew it was not there. Then to my children I came back and...

"Now take this girl: She knew before she sailed to France, this man, This Barrett Bays was mad about her--knew She could stay here and have him, live with him, And thus achieve...