I never saw any difference
Between playing cards for money
And selling real estate,
Practicing law, banking, or anything else.
For everything is chance.
Nevertheless
Seest thou a man diligent in business?
He shall stand before Kings!

(C) Edgar Lee Masters
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Edgar Lee Masters

• Mrs. Purkapile
• Mrs. Kessler
• America In 1904
• Barry Holden
• John Cabanis
• Carl Hamblin
• Mrs. Charles Bliss
• Charles Webster
• Charlie French
• Epilogue
• Ernest Hyde
• Lydia Puckett
• Lambert Hutchins
• Aaron Hatfield
• Abel Melveny
• Griffy The Cooper
• Knowlt Hoheimer
• Alexander Throckmorton
• Cassius Hueffer
• Hortense Robbins
• Judson Stoddard