Conrad Siever
Conrad Siever
Original Text
Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology,
illustrated by Oliver Herford (London: T. Werner Laurie,
[1916]): 31. 8-NBI Masters New York Public Library
1Not in that wasted garden
2Where bodies are drawn into grass
3That feeds no flocks, and into evergreens
4That bear no fruit --
5There where along the shaded walks
6Vain sighs are heard,
7And vainer dreams are dreamed
8Of close communion with departed souls --
9But here under the apple tree
10I loved and watched and pruned
11With gnarled hands
12In the long, long years;
14To move in the chemic change and circle of life,
15Into the soil and into the flesh of the tree,
16And into the living epitaphs
17Of redder apples!
Notes
13] northern-spy: a variety of apple tree. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1915
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2003
Rhyme