Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Lee Masters · 1916

Year established 2026-08-20 from the copyright page of spoonriveranthol021mast, which reads Copyright, 1915 and 1916, By the MACMILLAN COMPANY, and New Illustrated Edition, with New Poems, October, 1916. The title page names THE MACMILLAN COMPANY and 1916. This is the enlarged 1916 text, not the April 1915 first printing. The Standard Ebooks colophon also states 1916.

Numbers are the poem's position in the book.

  1. 1The Hill 1916
  2. 2Hod Putt 1916
  3. 3Ollie McGee 1916
  4. 4Fletcher McGee 1916
  5. 5Robert Fulton Tanner 1916
  6. 6Cassius Hueffer 1916
  7. 7Serepta Mason 1916
  8. 8Amanda Barker 1916
  9. 9Constance Hately 1916
  10. 10Chase Henry 1916
  11. 11Harry Carey Goodhue 1916
  12. 12Judge Somers 1916
  13. 13Kinsey Keene 1916
  14. 14Benjamin Pantier 1916
  15. 15Mrs. Benjamin Pantier 1916
  16. 16Reuben Pantier 1916
  17. 17Emily Sparks 1916
  18. 18Trainor, the Druggist 1916
  19. 19Daisy Fraser 1916
  20. 20Benjamin Fraser 1916
  21. 21Minerva Jones 1916
  22. 22“Indignation” Jones 1916
  23. 23Doctor Meyers 1916
  24. 24Mrs. Meyers 1916
  25. 25“Butch” Weldy 1916
  26. 26Knowlt Hoheimer 1916
  27. 27Lydia Puckett 1916
  28. 28Frank Drummer 1916
  29. 29Hare Drummer 1916
  30. 30Conrad Siever 1916
  31. 31Doc Hill 1916
  32. 32Andy the Night-Watch 1916
  33. 33Sarah Brown 1916
  34. 34Percy Bysshe Shelley 1916
  35. 35Flossie Cabanis 1916
  36. 36Julia Miller 1916
  37. 37Johnnie Sayre 1916
  38. 38Charlie French 1916
  39. 39Zenas Witt 1916
  40. 40Theodore the Poet 1916
  41. 41The Town Marshal 1916
  42. 42Jack McGuire 1916
  43. 43Dorcas Gustine 1916
  44. 44Nicholas Bindle 1916
  45. 45Jacob Goodpasture 1916
  46. 46Harold Arnett 1916
  47. 47Margaret Fuller Slack 1916
  48. 48George Trimble 1916
  49. 49Dr. Siegfried Iseman 1916
  50. 50“Ace” Shaw 1916
  51. 51Lois Spears 1916
  52. 52Justice Arnett 1916
  53. 53Willard Fluke 1916
  54. 54Aner Clute 1916
  55. 55Lucius Atherton 1916
  56. 56Homer Clapp 1916
  57. 57Deacon Taylor 1916
  58. 58Sam Hookey 1916
  59. 59Cooney Potter 1916
  60. 60Fiddler Jones 1916
  61. 61Nellie Clark 1916
  62. 62Louise Smith 1916
  63. 63Herbert Marshall 1916
  64. 64George Gray 1916
  65. 65Hon. Henry Bennett 1916
  66. 66Griffy the Cooper 1916
  67. 67Sexsmith the Dentist 1916
  68. 68A. D. Blood 1916
  69. 69Robert Southey Burke 1916
  70. 70Dora Williams 1916
  71. 71Mrs. Williams 1916
  72. 72William and Emily 1916
  73. 73The Circuit Judge 1916
  74. 74Blind Jack 1916
  75. 75John Horace Burleson 1916
  76. 76Nancy Knapp 1916
  77. 77Barry Holden 1916
  78. 78State’s Attorney Fallas 1916
  79. 79Wendell P. Bloyd 1916
  80. 80Francis Turner 1916
  81. 81Franklin Jones 1916
  82. 82John M. Church 1916
  83. 83Russian Sonia 1916
  84. 84Isa Nutter 1916
  85. 85Barney Hainsfeather 1916
  86. 86Petit, the Poet 1916
  87. 87Pauline Barrett 1916
  88. 88Mrs. Charles Bliss 1916
  89. 89Mrs. George Reece 1916
  90. 90Rev. Lemuel Wiley 1916
  91. 91Thomas Ross, Jr. 1916
  92. 92Rev. Abner Peet 1916
  93. 93Jefferson Howard 1916
  94. 94Judge Selah Lively 1916
  95. 95Albert Schirding 1916
  96. 96Jonas Keene 1916
  97. 97Eugenia Todd 1916
  98. 98Yee Bow 1916
  99. 99Washington McNeely 1916
  100. 100Paul McNeely 1916
  101. 101Mary McNeely 1916
  102. 102Daniel M’Cumber 1916
  103. 103Georgine Sand Miner 1916
  104. 104Thomas Rhodes 1916
  105. 105Ida Chicken 1916
  106. 106Penniwit, the Artist 1916
  107. 107Jim Brown 1916
  108. 108Robert Davidson 1916
  109. 109Elsa Wertman 1916
  110. 110Hamilton Greene 1916
  111. 111Ernest Hyde 1916
  112. 112Roger Heston 1916
  113. 113Amos Sibley 1916
  114. 114Mrs. Sibley 1916
  115. 115Adam Weirauch 1916
  116. 116Ezra Bartlett 1916
  117. 117Amelia Garrick 1916
  118. 118John Hancock Otis 1916
  119. 119Anthony Findlay 1916
  120. 120John Cabanis 1916
  121. 121The Unknown 1916
  122. 122Alexander Throckmorton 1916
  123. 123Jonathan Swift Somers 1916
  124. 124Widow McFarlane 1916
  125. 125Carl Hamblin 1916
  126. 126Editor Whedon 1916
  127. 127Eugene Carman 1916
  128. 128Clarence Fawcett 1916
  129. 129W. Lloyd Garrison Standard 1916
  130. 130Professor Newcomer 1916
  131. 131Ralph Rhodes 1916
  132. 132Mickey M’Grew 1916
  133. 133Rosie Roberts 1916
  134. 134Oscar Hummel 1916
  135. 135Roscoe Purkapile 1916
  136. 136Mrs. Purkapile 1916
  137. 137Josiah Tompkins 1916
  138. 138Mrs. Kessler 1916
  139. 139Harmon Whitney 1916
  140. 140Bert Kessler 1916
  141. 141Lambert Hutchins 1916
  142. 142Lillian Stewart 1916
  143. 143Hortence Robbins 1916
  144. 144Batterton Dobyns 1916
  145. 145Jacob Godbey 1916
  146. 146Walter Simmons 1916
  147. 147Tom Beatty 1916
  148. 148Roy Butler 1916
  149. 149Searcy Foote 1916
  150. 150Edmund Pollard 1916
  151. 151Thomas Trebelyan 1916
  152. 152Percival Sharp 1916
  153. 153Hiram Scates 1916
  154. 154Peleg Poague 1916
  155. 155Jeduthan Hawley 1916
  156. 156Abel Melveny 1916
  157. 157Oaks Tutt 1916
  158. 158Elliott Hawkins 1916
  159. 159Voltaire Johnson 1916
  160. 160English Thornton 1916
  161. 161Enoch Dunlap 1916
  162. 162Ida Frickey 1916
  163. 163Seth Compton 1916
  164. 164Felix Schmidt 1916
  165. 165Schroeder the Fisherman 1916
  166. 166Richard Bone 1916
  167. 167Silas Dement 1916
  168. 168Dillard Sissman 1916
  169. 169Jonathan Houghton 1916
  170. 170E. C. Culbertson 1916
  171. 171Shack Dye 1916
  172. 172Hildrup Tubbs 1916
  173. 173Henry Tripp 1916
  174. 174Granville Calhoun 1916
  175. 175Henry C. Calhoun 1916
  176. 176Alfred Moir 1916
  177. 177Perry Zoll 1916
  178. 178Dippold the Optician 1916
  179. 179Magrady Graham 1916
  180. 180Archibald Higbie 1916
  181. 181Tom Merritt 1916
  182. 182Mrs. Merritt 1916
  183. 183Elmer Karr 1916
  184. 184Elizabeth Childers 1916
  185. 185Edith Conant 1916
  186. 186Charles Webster 1916
  187. 187Father Malloy 1916
  188. 188Ami Green 1916
  189. 189Calvin Campbell 1916
  190. 190Henry Layton 1916
  191. 191Harlan Sewall 1916
  192. 192Ippolit Konovaloff 1916
  193. 193Henry Phipps 1916
  194. 194Harry Wilmans 1916
  195. 195John Wasson 1916
  196. 196Many Soldiers 1916
  197. 197Godwin James 1916
  198. 198Lyman King 1916
  199. 199Caroline Branson 1916
  200. 200Anne Rutledge 1916
  201. 201Hamlet Micure 1916
  202. 202Mabel Osborne 1916
  203. 203William H. Herndon 1916
  204. 204Rebecca Wasson 1916
  205. 205Rutherford McDowell 1916
  206. 206Hannah Armstrong 1916
  207. 207Lucinda Matlock 1916
  208. 208Davis Matlock 1916
  209. 209Herman Altman 1916
  210. 210Jennie M’Grew 1916
  211. 211Columbus Cheney 1916
  212. 212Wallace Ferguson 1916
  213. 213Marie Bateson 1916
  214. 214Tennessee Claflin Shope 1916
  215. 215Plymouth Rock Joe 1916
  216. 216Imanuel Ehrenhardt 1916
  217. 217Samuel Gardner 1916
  218. 218Dow Kritt 1916
  219. 219William Jones 1916
  220. 220William Goode 1916
  221. 221J. Milton Miles 1916
  222. 222Faith Matheny 1916
  223. 223Scholfield Hurley 1916
  224. 224Willie Metcalf 1916
  225. 225Willie Pennington 1916
  226. 226The Village Atheist 1916
  227. 227John Ballard 1916
  228. 228Julian Scott 1916
  229. 229Alfonso Churchill 1916
  230. 230Zilpha Marsh 1916
  231. 231James Garber 1916
  232. 232Lydia Humphrey 1916
  233. 233Le Roy Goldman 1916
  234. 234Gustav Richter 1916
  235. 235Arlo Will 1916
  236. 236Captain Orlando Killion 1916
  237. 237Jeremy Carlisle 1916
  238. 238Joseph Dixon 1916
  239. 239Judson Stoddard 1916
  240. 240Russell Kincaid 1916
  241. 241Aaron Hatfield 1916
  242. 242Isaiah Beethoven 1916
  243. 243Elijah Browning 1916
  244. 244Webster Ford 1916
  245. 245The Spooniad 1916