Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter?Spoon River Anthology
All, all are sleeping on the hill.Epitaphs
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong.Webster Ford
All that we know is, they grind small, small as the pitiless hail.Webster Ford
Death is the end of life; ah, why should life all labor be?Lucinda Matlock
I lived the life I thought was best and made it bear for me.Petit, the Poet
Love is a naked shadow on a gnarled and naked tree.Cassius Hueffer
Oh, maternal Earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!Antoine Dutrochet
I erred, I erred, and yet there seemed a way!J. Milton Miles
Choose your job carefully, darling; lest you get a broken heart.Jacob Godbey
Sometimes the best man is the worst, sometimes the worst man is the best.Indignation Jones
You may think, passer-by, that Fate, is a pit-fall outside of yourself.William and Emily
Around which your footsteps tarry, a sudden abyss yawned at your feet.William and Emily
You were forced to walk to find your happiness in spite of her.William and Emily
The Keeper of the Records for the Spoon River I styling myself without having been elected.Henry Phipps
I looked at life with the eye of the artist, and with the soul of the poet.Robert Fulton Tanner
Oh, maternal Earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!Davie Drumheller
Are you not weary of ardent ways? Lure of the fallen seraphim.Thomas Trevelyan
Man, the egregious ego, cannot love, but only list himself supreme.Jonathan Swift Somers II
No anthem will I compose for myself. Let me be, when I am dead.Jonathan Swift Somers II