英文诗词：Minerva Jones

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英文诗词：Minerva Jones

　　by Edgar Lee Masters

　　I am Minerva， the village poetess，

　　Hooted at， jeered at by the Yahoos of the street

　　For my heavy body， cock-eye， and rolling walk，

　　And all the more when "Butch" Weldy

　　Captured me after a brutal hunt.

　　He left me to my fate with Doctor Meyers；

　　And I sank into death， growing numb from the feet up，

　　Like one stepping deeper and deeper into a stream of ice.

　　Will some one go to the village newspaper，

　　And gather into a book the verses I wrote？

　　I thirsted so for love！

　　I hungered so for life！