Front matter
Reading edition
By
EDGAR LEE MASTERS
Starved Rock Mitch Miller Domesday Book Toward the Gulf Songs and Satires The Great Valley Spoon River Anthology
THE OPEN SEA
By EDGAR LEE MASTERS New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1921 All rights reserved PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Copyright, 1921, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1921. Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company New York, U. S. A.
CONTENTS
PART I
PAGE
Brutus3
Brutus and Antony3
At the Mermaid Tavern17
Charlotte Corday31
A Man Child is Born49
Richard Booth to His Son, Junius Booth52
A Man Child is Born57
Squire Bowling Green58
Lincoln Speaking in Congress63
John Wilkes Booth at the Farm64
Junius Brutus Booth66
A Certain Poet on the Debates71
PART II
The Decision81
PART III
Lincoln Makes a Memorandum117
Winter Garden Theatre118
The Sparrow Hawk in the Rain120
Adelaide and John Wilkes Booth134
Brutus Lives Again in Booth140
Booth’s Philippi151
The Burial of Boston Corbett{vi}160
The New Apocrypha163
Business Reverses163
The Fig Tree166
Tribute Money169
The Great Merger171
At Decapolis174
The Single Standard178
First Entrants183
John in Prison186
Ananias and Sapphira190
The Two Malefactors193
Berenice202
Nebuchadnezzar or Eating Grass212
Hip Lung on Yuan Chang220
Ulysses225
The Party232
Celsus at Hadrian’s Villa238
Invoation to the Gods248
Pentheus in These States253
Comparative Criminals262
The Great Race Passes270
Demos the Despot272
A Republic275
The Inn277
Monody on the Death of William Marion Reedy285
God and My Country290
The Dunes of Indiana295
Nature299