Explore "Mabel Osborne" by Edgar Lee Masters on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Your red blossoms amid green leaves / Are drooping, beautiful geranium!
But you do not ask for water.
You cannot speak! You do not need to speak --
Everyone knows that you are dying of thirst, / Yet they do not bring water!
They pass on, saying:
"The geranium wants water."
And I, who had happiness to share / And longed to share your happiness;
I who loved you, Spoon River, / And craved your love, / Withered before your eyes, Spoon River --
Thirsting, thirsting, / Voiceless from chasteness of soul to ask you for love, / You who knew and saw me perish before you, / Like this geranium which someone has planted over me, / And left to die.