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 Mind (22 Poems)
Silvia (Donald Marquis Poems)
I STILL remember how she moved Among the rathe, wild blooms she loved, (When Spring came tip-toe down the slopes, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Moonlight (Donald Marquis Poems)
We stood among the boats and nets . . . We marked the risen moon Walk swaying o'er the trembling ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Visitors (Donald Marquis Poems)
THEY haunt me, they tease me with hinted Withheld revelations, The songs that I may not utter; They lead me, ...
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 ...
Selves (Donald Marquis Poems)
My dust in ruined Babylon Is blown along the level plain, And songs of mine at dawn have soared Above ...
Haunted (The Ghost Speaks) (Donald Marquis Poems)
A GHOST is the freak of a sick man's brain? Then why do ye start and shiver so? That's the ...
A Dream Child (Donald Marquis Poems)
WHERE tides of tossed wistaria bloom Foam up in purple turbulence, Where twining boughs have built a room And wing'd ...
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 Name (Donald Marquis Poems)
IT shifts and shifts from form to form, It drifts and darkles, gleams and glows; It is the passion of ...
From The Bridge (Donald Marquis Poems)
HELD and thrilled by the vision I stood, as the twilight died, Where the great bridge soars like a song ...
Across The Night (Donald Marquis Poems)
MUCH listening through the silences, Much staring through the night, And lo! the dumb blind distances Are bridged with speech ...
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 ...
Realities (Donald Marquis Poems)
WE are deceived by the shadow, we see not the substance of things. For the hills are less solid than ...