The Comrade (Donald Marquis Poems)
HATH not man at his noblest An air of something more than man? -- A hint of grace immortal, Born ...
Donald Marquis Poems on Death & Dying (24 Poems)
The God-Maker, Man (Donald Marquis Poems)
NEVERMORE Shall the shepherds of Arcady follow Pan's moods as he lolls by the shore Of the mere, or lies ...
Chant Of The Changing Hours (Donald Marquis Poems)
THE Hours passed by, a fleet, confused crowd; With wafture of blown garments bright as fire, Light, light of foot ...
At Last (Donald Marquis Poems)
EACH race has died and lived and fought for the "true" gods of that poor race, Unconsciously, divinest thought of ...
Moonlight (Donald Marquis Poems)
We stood among the boats and nets . . . We marked the risen moon Walk swaying o'er the trembling ...
Romeo And Juliet (Donald Marquis Poems)
Pop Montague's old brain was wried Through all its convolutions With constant thoughts of Homicide And kindred institutions. White-haired Giuseppi ...
Wireless Telegraph (Donald Marquis Poems)
Dead priests that have sung when the world was young at Mercury's temple-place,Your myth, it was true. It is born ...
With The Submarines (Donald Marquis Poems)
ABOVE, the baffled twilight fails; beneath, the blind snakes creep; Beside us glides the charnel shark, our pilot through the ...
The Jesters (Donald Marquis Poems)
A TOAST to the Fools! Pierrot, Pantaloon, Harlequin, Clown, Merry-Andrew, Buffoon -- Touchstone and Triboulet -- all of the tribe. ...
The Pool (Donald Marquis Poems)
REACH over, my Undine, and clutch me a reed -- Nymph of mine idleness, notch me a pipe -- For ...
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, ...
A Golden Lad (D.M.V.) (Donald Marquis Poems)
So young, but already the splendor Of genius robed him about -- Already the dangerous, tender Regard of the gods ...
This Is Another Day (Donald Marquis Poems)
I AM mine own priest, and I shrive myself Of all my wasted yesterdays. Though sin And sloth and foolishness, ...
The Singer (Donald Marquis Poems)
A LITTLE while, with love and youth, He wandered, singing: -- He felt life's pulses hot and strong Beat all ...
A Hymn (Donald Marquis Poems)
CLOTHED on with thunder and with steel And black against the dawn The whirling armies clash and reel. . . ...
The Sailor’s Wife Speaks (Donald Marquis Poems)
YE are dead, they say, but ye swore, ye swore, Ye would come to me back from the sea! From ...
The Bayonet (Donald Marquis Poems)
THE great guns slay from a league away, the death- bolts fly unseen, And bellowing hill replies to hill, machine ...
In Mars, What Avatar? (Donald Marquis Poems)
PERCHANCE the dying gods of Earth Are destined to another birth, And worn-out creeds regain their worth In the kindly ...
Protest Of A Young Intellectual (Donald Marquis Poems)
God never plucks me by the sleeve And begs for my advice, And since He doesn't all His works Leave ...
A Song Of Men (Donald Marquis Poems)
OUT of the soil and the slime, Reeking, they climb, Out of the muck and the mire, Rank, they aspire; ...
Breath (Donald Marquis Poems)
We are the shaken slaves of Breath: For logic leaves the race unstirred; But cadence, and the vibrant word, Are ...
Time Steals From Love (Donald Marquis Poems)
TIME steals from Love all but Love's wings; And how should aught but evil things, Or any good but death, ...
The Wages (Donald Marquis Poems)
EARTH loves to gibber o'er her dross, Her golden souls, to waste; The cup she fills for her god-men Is ...
The Nobler Lesson (Donald Marquis Poems)
CHRIST was of virgin birth, and, being slain, The creedists say, He rose from death again. Oh, futile age-long talk ...