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 Man (28 Poems)
Pete The Parrot And Shakespeare (Donald Marquis Poems)
i got acquainted with a parrot named pete recently who is an interesting bird pete says he used to belong ...
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 ...
What The Ants Are Saying (Donald Marquis Poems)
dear boss i was talking with an ant the other day and he handed me a lot of gossip which ...
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 ...
A Plan (Donald Marquis Poems)
YOUTH is the season of revolt; at twenty-fiveWe curse the reigning politicians,Wondering that any man aliveStands for such damnable conditions.Whatever ...
The Sage And The Woman (Donald Marquis Poems)
'TWIXT ancient Beersheba and Dan Another such a caravan Dazed Palestine had never seen As that which bore Sabea's queen ...
The Prude’s Alphabet (Donald Marquis Poems)
A is for Tarsus. The current short skirtsDo not conceal it, which pleases the flirts. B is the letter for ...
Dickens (Donald Marquis Poems)
DICKENS"The only book that the party had was a volume of Dickens. During the six months that they lay in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Politician (Donald Marquis Poems)
LEADER no more, be judged of us! Hailed Chief, and loved, of yore -- Youth, and the faith of youth, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
A Hymn (Donald Marquis Poems)
CLOTHED on with thunder and with steel And black against the dawn The whirling armies clash and reel. . . ...
The Flattered Lightning Bug (Donald Marquis Poems)
a lightning bug gotin here the other night aregular hick fromthe real country he wasawful proud of himself youcity insects ...
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? --- ...
Colyumist’s Prayer (Donald Marquis Poems)
I pray Thee, make my colyum read,And give me thus my daily bread.Endow me, if Thou grant me wit,Likewise with ...
Breath (Donald Marquis Poems)
We are the shaken slaves of Breath: For logic leaves the race unstirred; But cadence, and the vibrant word, Are ...
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 ...