Frustration (Donald Marquis Poems)
The things that I can't have I want And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do ...
The things that I can't have I want And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do ...
Oh, what a pleasant game is life When we are bravely battingAnd glorying in skill and strife. We ...
We figured once on fans and screens -We figure now on the Philippines. It's not the style to pat my ...
It is easy to sit in the sunshineAnd talk to the man in the shade;It is easy to float in ...
Rub thou thy battered lamp: nor claim nor begHonours from aught about thee. Light the young.Thy frame is as a ...
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
Will you conquer my heart with your beauty; my sould going out from afar? Shall I fall to your hand ...
There was something about it the way he had things just so, from the start a level, freshly cut boards ...
It ceased to hurt me, though so slow I could not feel the Anguish go -- But only knew by ...
AS I gaed up by yon gate-end, When day was waxin' weary, Wha did I meet come down the street, ...
PEG NICHOLSON was a good bay mare, As ever trod on airn; But now she's floating down the Nith, And ...
O bid me mount and sail up there Amid the cloudy wrack, For peg and Meg and Paris' love That ...
It is easy to sit in the sunshine And talk to the man in the shade; It is easy to ...
THE LANDS OF MY CHILDHOOD 1 I am leaving the holy city of Leeds For the last time for the ...
Desponding Phillis was endu'd With ev'ry Talent of a Prude, She trembled when a Man drew near; Salute her, and ...
Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank That's staked out nigh three hundred claims, and every ...
This is the story of G.R.D., Who went on a mission across the sea To borrow some money for you ...
Bring me a quart of colonial beer And some doughy damper to make good cheer, I must make a heavy ...
He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short ...
(Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.) Sit on the bed; I'm blind, and three parts shell, Be careful; can't shake ...
"He gave her class. She gave him sex." -- Katharine Hepburn on Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers He gave her ...
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