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 ...
I HAVE been down in a dark valley; I have been groping through a deep gorge; Far above, the lips ...
i got acquainted with a parrot named pete recently who is an interesting bird pete says he used to belong ...
I STILL remember how she moved Among the rathe, wild blooms she loved, (When Spring came tip-toe down the slopes, ...
mehitabel the cat claims thatshe has a human soulalso and has transmigratedfrom body to body and itmay be so boss ...
HATH not man at his noblest An air of something more than man? -- A hint of grace immortal, Born ...
THE Hours passed by, a fleet, confused crowd; With wafture of blown garments bright as fire, Light, light of foot ...
YOUTH is the season of revolt; at twenty-fiveWe curse the reigning politicians,Wondering that any man aliveStands for such damnable conditions.Whatever ...
PEARL-SLASHED and purple and crimson and fringed with gray mist of the hills, The pennons of morning advance to the ...
DICKENS"The only book that the party had was a volume of Dickens. During the six months that they lay in ...
this is the song of mehitabelof mehitabel the alley catas i wrote you before bossmehitabel is a believerin the pythagoreantheory ...
i heard a spiderand a fly arguingwait said the flydo not eat mei serve a great purposein the worldyou will ...
A TOAST to the Fools! Pierrot, Pantaloon, Harlequin, Clown, Merry-Andrew, Buffoon -- Touchstone and Triboulet -- all of the tribe. ...
BETTER a pauper, penniless, asleep on the kindly sod -- Better a gipsy, houseless, but near to the heart of ...
REACH over, my Undine, and clutch me a reed -- Nymph of mine idleness, notch me a pipe -- For ...
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 ...
i was talking to a moththe other eveninghe was trying to break intoan electric light bulband fry himself on the ...
So young, but already the splendor Of genius robed him about -- Already the dangerous, tender Regard of the gods ...
WHAT was his life, back yonder In the dusk where time began, This beast uncouth with the jaw of an ...
AND some still cry: "What is the use? The service rendered? What the gain? Heroic, yes! -- but in what ...
a lightning bug gotin here the other night aregular hick fromthe real country he wasawful proud of himself youcity insects ...
The things that I can't have I want And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do ...
PERCHANCE the dying gods of Earth Are destined to another birth, And worn-out creeds regain their worth In the kindly ...
OUT of the soil and the slime, Reeking, they climb, Out of the muck and the mire, Rank, they aspire; ...
We are the shaken slaves of Breath: For logic leaves the race unstirred; But cadence, and the vibrant word, Are ...
TIME steals from Love all but Love's wings; And how should aught but evil things, Or any good but death, ...
THESE logs with drama and with dream are rife, For all their golden Summers and green Springs Through leaf and ...
CHRIST was of virgin birth, and, being slain, The creedists say, He rose from death again. Oh, futile age-long talk ...
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