Poetic Openings : Edgar Lee Masters to Edgar Lee Masters
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters :
Poem : Theodore The Poet :
First Line : As a boy, Theodore, you sat for long hours
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters :
Poem : Thomas Rhodes :
First Line : Very well, you liberals,
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters :
Poem : Thomas Ross, Jr. :
First Line : This I saw with my own eyes:
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters :
Poem : Thomas Trevelyan :
First Line : Reading in Ovid the sorrowful story of Itys,
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters :
Poem : Tom Beatty :
First Line : I was a lawyer like Harmon Whitney
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters :
Poem : Tom Merritt :
First Line : At first I suspected something—
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters :
Poem : Trainor, The Druggist :
First Line : Only the chemist can tell, and not always the chemist,
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters :
Poem : Voltaire Johnson :
First Line : Why did you bruise me with your rough places
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters :
Poem : W. Lloyd Garrison Standard :
First Line : Vegetarian, non-resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a Christian;
Poet : Edgar Lee Masters :
Poem : Wallace Ferguson :
First Line : There at Geneva where Mt. Blanc floated above
