Poetic Openings : Edgar Lee Masters to Edgar Lee Masters

Poet : Edgar Lee Masters : Poem : Robert Davidson : First Line : I grew spiritually fat living off the souls of men.
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters : Poem : Robert Fulton Tanner : First Line : If a man could bite the giant hand
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters : Poem : Robert Southey Burke : First Line : I spent my money trying to elect you Mayor,
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters : Poem : Roger Heston : First Line : Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters : Poem : Roscoe Purkapile : First Line : She loved me. Oh! how she loved me!

Poet : Edgar Lee Masters : Poem : Rosie Roberts : First Line : I was sick, but more than that, I was mad
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters : Poem : Roy Butler : First Line : If the learned Supreme Court of Illinois
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters : Poem : Russell Kincaid : First Line : In the last spring I ever knew,
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters : Poem : Russian Sonia : First Line : I, born in Weimar
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters : Poem : Rutherford Mcdowell : First Line : They brought me ambrotypes