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Born in August 23, 1868 / Died in March 5, 1950 / United States / English

Poems by Edgar Lee Masters

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The Unknown

... Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknown ...

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Oscar Hummel

... Jones!" (I thought it was his house and he would show me the way home ...

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Ida Chicken

... (Thomas Rhodes was on the train that morning ...

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Charles Webster

... Where the throats of the waves were like whippoorwills ...

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Theodore the Poet

... With deep-set eye staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow, ...

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Walter Simmons

... I played the cornet and painted pictures, ...

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Washington McNeely

... I sent all the boys to Ann Arbor, all of the girls to Rockford, ...

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Andy the Night-Watch

... I slipped about with a bull's-eye lantern ...

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Judson Stoddard

... And I said "What does God do with mountains ...

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George Gray

... But my life. For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment ...

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Fiddler Jones

... With a medley of horns, bassoons and piccolos ...

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Rain In My Heart

... ranged. I, who am altered, would not find ...

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Willard Fluke

... I saw my little girl, who was sitting in the front seat -- ...

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Jeremy Carlisle

... Of having the good in you seen, and seeing the good ...

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Lucinda Matlock

... Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys ...