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 Soul (25 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 Song Of Mehitabel (Donald Marquis Poems)
this is the song of mehitabelof mehitabel the alley catas i wrote you before bossmehitabel is a believerin the pythagoreantheory ...
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 ...
New York (Donald Marquis Poems)
SHE is hot to the sea that crouches beside, Human and hot to the cool stars peering down, My passionate ...
A Hymn (Donald Marquis Poems)
CLOTHED on with thunder and with steel And black against the dawn The whirling armies clash and reel. . . ...
This Earth, Is Also A Star (Donald Marquis Poems)
WHERE the singers of Saturn find tongue, Where the Galaxy's lovers embrace, Our world and its beauty are sung! They ...
The Sailor’s Wife Speaks (Donald Marquis Poems)
YE are dead, they say, but ye swore, ye swore, Ye would come to me back from the sea! From ...
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 Bayonet (Donald Marquis Poems)
THE great guns slay from a league away, the death- bolts fly unseen, And bellowing hill replies to hill, machine ...
In Mars, What Avatar? (Donald Marquis Poems)
PERCHANCE the dying gods of Earth Are destined to another birth, And worn-out creeds regain their worth In the kindly ...
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? --- ...
David To Bathsheba (Donald Marquis Poems)
VERY red are the roses of Sharon, But redder thy mouth, There is nard, there is myrrh, in En Gedi, ...
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; ...
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 ...
The Wages (Donald Marquis Poems)
EARTH loves to gibber o'er her dross, Her golden souls, to waste; The cup she fills for her god-men Is ...
Realities (Donald Marquis Poems)
WE are deceived by the shadow, we see not the substance of things. For the hills are less solid than ...