The Tavern Of Despair (Donald Marquis Poems)
THE wraiths of murdered hopes and loves Come whispering at the door, Come creeping through the weeping mist That drapes ...
THE wraiths of murdered hopes and loves Come whispering at the door, Come creeping through the weeping mist That drapes ...
1424So many stars in heaven,--Flowers in the meadow that shine;--This little one of Domremy,What special grace is thine?By the fairy ...
"WHEREFORE these revels that my dull eyes greet? These dancers, dancing at my fleshless feet; The harpers, harping vainly at ...
"THREE horsemen galloped the dusty way While sun and moon were both in the sky; An old crone crouched ...
Before the monstrous wrong he sets him down-- One man against a stone-walled city of sin. ...
So silent is the world to-nightThe lamp gives silence out like light,The latticed windows open wideShow silence, like the night, ...
One from the ends of the earth -- gifts at an open door -- Treason has much, but we, Mother, ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
LEAVE me a little while alone, Here at his grave that still is strown With crumbling flower and wreath; The ...
I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Freres humains qui apres nous vivez, N'ayez les coeurs contre nous endurcis ... Men, brother men, that after us yet ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
No. It can't be. No! You too, beloved? Why? What for? Darling, look - I came, I brought flowers, but, ...
Had she come all the way for this, To part at last without a kiss? Yea, had she borne the ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
It was three slim does and a ten-tined buck in the bracken lay; And all of a sudden the sinister ...
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