The Struggle (Donald Marquis Poems)
I HAVE been down in a dark valley; I have been groping through a deep gorge; Far above, the lips ...
Donald Marquis Poems on God (33 Poems)
The Comrade (Donald Marquis Poems)
HATH not man at his noblest An air of something more than man? -- A hint of grace immortal, Born ...
Certain Maxims Of Archy (Donald Marquis Poems)
live so that youcan stick out your tongueat the insurancedoctorif you will drink hair restorer followevery dram with somegood standarddepilatoryas ...
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 ...
Archy Interviews A Pharaoh (Donald Marquis Poems)
boss i wentand interviewed the mummyof the egyptian pharaohin the metropolitan museumas you bade me to dowhat homy regal leatherfacesays ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Rhyme Of The Roads (Donald Marquis Poems)
PEARL-SLASHED and purple and crimson and fringed with gray mist of the hills, The pennons of morning advance to the ...
The Big Bad Wolf (Donald Marquis Poems)
i went to a movie showthe other evening in the cuffof a friends turned up trousersand saw the three little ...
A Spider And A Fly (Donald Marquis Poems)
i heard a spiderand a fly arguingwait said the flydo not eat mei serve a great purposein the worldyou will ...
Unrest (Donald Marquis Poems)
A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things: It was the eager wish to ...
The Child And The Mill (Donald Marquis Poems)
BETTER a pauper, penniless, asleep on the kindly sod -- Better a gipsy, houseless, but near to the heart of ...
The Pool (Donald Marquis Poems)
REACH over, my Undine, and clutch me a reed -- Nymph of mine idleness, notch me a pipe -- For ...
Words Are Not Guns (Donald Marquis Poems)
Put by the sword (a dreamer saith), The years of peace draw nigh! Already the millennial dawn Makes red the ...
The Seeker (Donald Marquis Poems)
THE creeds he wrought of dream and thought Fall from him at the touch of life, His old gods fail ...
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 ...
The Piltdown Skull (Donald Marquis Poems)
WHAT was his life, back yonder In the dusk where time began, This beast uncouth with the jaw of an ...
The Awakening (Donald Marquis Poems)
THE steam, the reek, the fume, of prayer Blown outward for a million years, Becomes a mist between the spheres, ...
The Explorers (Donald Marquis Poems)
AND some still cry: "What is the use? The service rendered? What the gain? Heroic, yes! -- but in what ...
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 Name (Donald Marquis Poems)
IT shifts and shifts from form to form, It drifts and darkles, gleams and glows; It is the passion of ...
They Had No Poet . . . (Donald Marquis Poems)
By Tigris, or the streams of Ind, Ere Colchis rose, or Babylon, Forgotten empires dreamed and sinned, Setting tall towns ...
A Hymn (Donald Marquis Poems)
CLOTHED on with thunder and with steel And black against the dawn The whirling armies clash and reel. . . ...
Paladins, Paladins, Youth Noble-Hearted (Donald Marquis Poems)
GALAHADS, Galahads, Percivals, gallop! Bayards, to the saddle! -- the clangorous trumpets, Hoarse with their ecstasy, call to the mellay. ...
The Hunt (Donald Marquis Poems)
O, why do they hunt so hard, so hard, who have no need of food?Do they hunt for hate? --- ...
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; ...
So let them pass, these songs of mine, (Donald Marquis Poems)
So let them pass, these songs of mine, Into oblivion, nor repine; Abandoned ruins of large schemes, Dimmed lights adrift ...
Breath (Donald Marquis Poems)
We are the shaken slaves of Breath: For logic leaves the race unstirred; But cadence, and the vibrant word, Are ...
A Nightmare (Donald Marquis Poems)
LEAGUES before me, leagues behind, Clamor warring wastes of flood, All the streams of all the worlds Flung together, mad ...