News From Babylon (Donald Marquis Poems)
Archaeologists have discovered a love-letter among the ruins of Babylon. -- Newspaper report.The world hath just one tale to tell, ...
Archaeologists have discovered a love-letter among the ruins of Babylon. -- Newspaper report.The world hath just one tale to tell, ...
A Cynic's Song.SOME men strut proudly, all purple and gold, Hiding queer deeds 'neath a cloak of good fame; I ...
A song of the setting sun! The sky in the west is red, And the day is all but ...
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is ...
While you use your best endeavour to immortalise in verse The gambling and the drink which are your country's greatest ...
Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide, Came a ghost, and for a moment walked ...
If the Led Striker call it a strike, Or the papers call it a war, They know not much what ...
Set not thy foot on graves; Hear what wine and roses say; The mountain chase, the summer waves, The crowded ...
I cautious, scanned my little life -- I winnowed what would fade From what would last till Heads like mine ...
"Zipless sex" one cynic called this festival of fornication, this celebration of new-found sexual strength and urbane honesty, of sex ...
It is something to have wept as we have wept, It is something to have done as we have done, ...
And I start wondering how they came to be blind. If it was congenital, they could be brothers and sister, ...
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the ...
Time, the Jester, jeers at you; Your life's a fleeting breath; Your birthday's flimsy I.O.U. To that old devil, Death. ...
I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat, And one was small and crapulous, and one was ...
Within a pub that's off the Strand and handy to the bar, With pipe in mouth and mug in hand ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
The doubt you fought so long The cynic net you cast, The tyranny, the wrong, The ruin, they are past; ...
This, then, is she, My mother as she looked at seventeen, When she first met my father. Young incredibly, Younger ...
A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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