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Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters
Contents:
Armstrong, Hannah
Arnett, Harold
Atherton, Lucius
Ballard, John
Barker, Amanda
Barrett, Pauline
Bartlett, Ezra

Bateson, Marie
Beatty, Tom
Beethoven, Isaiah
Bennett, Hon.
Henry
Bindle, Nicholas
Blind Jack
Bliss, Mrs. Charles
Blood,
A. D.
Bloyd, Wendell P.
Bone, Richard
Branson, Caroline

Brown, Jim
Brown, Sarah
Browning, Elijah
Burleson, John
Horace
Butler, Roy
Cabanis, Flossie
Calhoun, Granville
Calhoun, Henry C.
Campbell,
Calvin
Carman, Eugene
Cheney, Columbus
Childers, Elizabeth

Church, John M.
Churchill, Alfonso
Circuit Judge, The
Clapp,
Homer
Clark, Nellie
Clute, Aner
Compton, Seth Conant, Edith

Culbertson, E. C.
Davidson, Robert
Dement, Silas
Dixon, Joseph
Drummer, Frank

Drummer, Hare
Dunlap, Enoch
Dye, Shack
Ehrenhardt, Imanuel
Fallas, State's Attorney

Fawcett, Clarence
Fluke, Willard
Foote,
Searcy
Ford, Webster
Fraser, Benjamin
Fraser, Daisy
French,
Charlie
Frickey, Ida
Garber, James
Gardner, Samuel
Garrick, Amelia
Godbey, Jacob

Goldman, Le Roy
Goode, William
Goodpasture, Jacob
Graham,

Magrady
Gray, George
Green, Ami
Greene, Hamilton
Griffy
the Cooper
Gustine, Dorcas
Hainsfeather, Barney
Hamblin, Carl
Hatfield, Aaron
Hawkins,
Elliott
Hawley, Jeduthan
Henry, Chase
Herndon, William H.

Heston, Roger
Higbie, Archibald
Hill, Doc
Hill, The
Hoheimer,
Knowlt
Holden, Barry
Hookey, Sam
Howard, Jefferson
Hueffer,
Cassius
Hummel, Oscar
Humphrey, Lydia
Hutchins, Lambert

Hyde, Ernest
James, Godwin
Jones, Fiddler
Jones, Franklin
Jones,
"Indignation"
Jones, Minerva
Jones, William
Karr, Elmer
Keene, Jonas
Kessler, Bert
Kessler, Mrs.
Killion,
Captain Orlando
Kincaid, Russell
King, Lyman
Knapp, Nancy

Konovaloff, Ippolit
Kritt, Dow
Layton, Henry
M'Cumber, Daniel
McDowell, Rutherford
McFarlane, Widow

McGee, Fletcher
McGee, Ollie
M'Grew, Jennie
M'Grew, Mickey


McGuire, Jack
McNeely, Mary
McNeely, Washington
Malloy,
Father
Many Soldiers
Marsh, Zilpha
Marshall, Herbert
Mason,
Serepta
Matheny, Faith
Matlock, Davis
Matlock, Lucinda

Melveny, Abel
Merritt, Mrs.
Merritt, Tom
Metcalf, Willie

Meyers, Doctor
Meyers, Mrs.
Micure, Hamlet
Miles, I. Milton

Miller, Julia
Miner, Georgine Sand
Moir, Alfred
Newcomer, Professor
Osborne, Mabel
Otis, John Hancock
Pantier, Benjamin
Pantier, Mrs. Benjamin
Pantier, Reuben
Peet,
Rev. Abner
Pennington, Willie
Penniwit, the Artist
Petit, the Poet

Phipps, Henry
Poague, Peleg
Pollard, Edmund
Potter, Cooney


Puckett, Lydia
Purkapile, Mrs.
Purkapile, Roscoe
Putt, Hod
Reece, Mrs. George
Rhodes, Ralph
Rhodes, Thomas
Richter,
Gustav
Robbins, Hortense
Roberts, Rosie
Ross, Thomas, Ir.

Russian Sonia
Rutledge, Anne
Sayre, Johnnie
Scates, Hiram
Schirding, Albert
Schmidt, Felix

Scott, Julian
Sewall, Harlan
Sharp, Percival
Shaw, "Ace "

Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shope, Tennessee Claflin
Sibley, Amos

Sibley, Mrs.
Simmons, Walter
Sissman, Dillard
Slack, Margaret
Fuller
Smith, Louise
Somers, Jonathan Swift
Somers, Judge

Sparks, Emily
Spooniad, The
Standard, W. Lloyd Garrison

Stewart, Lillian
Tanner, Robert Fulton
Taylor, Deacon
Theodore the Poet

Throckmorton, Alexander
Tompkins, Josiah
Town Marshal, The

Trainor, the Druggist
Trevelyan, Thomas
Trimble, George
Tripp,
Henry
Tubbs, Hildrup
Turner, Francis
Tutt, Oaks
Unknown, The
Village Atheist, The
Wasson, John
Weirauch, Adam

Weldy, "Butch "
Wertman, Elsa

Whedon, Editor
Whitney, Harmon
Wiley, Rev. Lemuel
Will,
Arlo
William and Emily
Williams, Dora
Williams, Mrs.

Wilmans, Harry
Witt, Zenas
Yee Bow
Zoll, Perry
The Hill
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,
The weak of will,
the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? All, all are

sleeping on the hill.
One passed in a fever,
One was burned in a mine,
One was killed in
a brawl,
One died in a jail,
One fell from a bridge toiling for
children and wifeAll,
all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie and Edith,
The tender heart, the
simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?-- All, all are sleeping
on the hill.
One died in shameful child-birth,
One of a thwarted love,
One at
the hands of a brute in a brothel,
One of a broken pride, in the search
for heart's desire;
One after life in far-away London and Paris
Was
brought to her little space by Ella and Kate and Mag--
All, all are
sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily,
And old Towny Kincaid and
Sevigne Houghton,
And Major Walker who had talked
With
venerable men of the revolution?--
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
They brought them dead sons from the war,
And daughters whom life
had crushed,
And their children fatherless, crying--
All, all are
sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.
Where is Old Fiddler Jones

Who played with life all his ninety years,
Braving the sleet with bared
breast,
Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin,
Nor gold,
nor love, nor heaven?
Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago,

Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary's Grove,
Of what Abe Lincoln
said
One time at Springfield.
Hod Putt
HERE I lie close to the grave
Of Old Bill Piersol,
Who grew rich
trading with the Indians, and who
Afterwards took the Bankrupt Law

And emerged from it richer than ever
Myself grown tired of toil
and poverty
And beholding how Old Bill and other grew in wealth


Robbed a traveler one Night near Proctor's Grove,
Killing him
unwittingly while doing so,
For which I was tried and hanged.
That
was my way of going into bankruptcy.
Now we who took the
bankrupt law in our respective ways
Sleep peacefully side by side.
Ollie McGee
Have you seen walking through the village
A Man with downcast
eyes and haggard face?
That is my husband who, by secret cruelty

Never to be told, robbed me of my youth and my beauty;
Till at last,
wrinkled and with yellow teeth,
And with broken pride and shameful
humility,
I sank into the grave.
But what think you gnaws at my
husband's heart?
The face of what I was, the face of what he made me!

These are driving him to the place where I lie.
In death, therefore, I
am avenged.
Fletcher McGee
She took my strength by minutes,
She took my life by hours,
She
drained me like a fevered moon
That saps the spinning world.
The
days