The Comrade (Donald Marquis Poems)
HATH not man at his noblest An air of something more than man? -- A hint of grace immortal, Born ...
HATH not man at his noblest An air of something more than man? -- A hint of grace immortal, Born ...
NEVERMORE Shall the shepherds of Arcady follow Pan's moods as he lolls by the shore Of the mere, or lies ...
THE Hours passed by, a fleet, confused crowd; With wafture of blown garments bright as fire, Light, light of foot ...
EACH race has died and lived and fought for the "true" gods of that poor race, Unconsciously, divinest thought of ...
A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things: It was the eager wish to ...
BETTER a pauper, penniless, asleep on the kindly sod -- Better a gipsy, houseless, but near to the heart of ...
LEADER no more, be judged of us! Hailed Chief, and loved, of yore -- Youth, and the faith of youth, ...
SHE is hot to the sea that crouches beside, Human and hot to the cool stars peering down, My passionate ...
THEY haunt me, they tease me with hinted Withheld revelations, The songs that I may not utter; They lead me, ...
THE creeds he wrought of dream and thought Fall from him at the touch of life, His old gods fail ...
Archaeologists have discovered a love-letter among the ruins of Babylon. -- Newspaper report.The world hath just one tale to tell, ...
DREAMERS, drinkers, rebel youth, Where's the folly free and fine You and I mistook for truth? Wits and wastrels, friends ...
A little while the tears and laughter, The willow and the rose -- A little while, and what comes after ...
PERCHANCE the dying gods of Earth Are destined to another birth, And worn-out creeds regain their worth In the kindly ...
WITH half-hearted levies of frost that make foray, retire, and refrain -- Ambiguous bugles that blow and that falter to ...
OUT of the soil and the slime, Reeking, they climb, Out of the muck and the mire, Rank, they aspire; ...
So let them pass, these songs of mine, Into oblivion, nor repine; Abandoned ruins of large schemes, Dimmed lights adrift ...
THESE logs with drama and with dream are rife, For all their golden Summers and green Springs Through leaf and ...
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