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 Time (18 Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Jesters (Donald Marquis Poems)
A TOAST to the Fools! Pierrot, Pantaloon, Harlequin, Clown, Merry-Andrew, Buffoon -- Touchstone and Triboulet -- all of the tribe. ...
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 ...
Selves (Donald Marquis Poems)
My dust in ruined Babylon Is blown along the level plain, And songs of mine at dawn have soared Above ...
The Lesson Of The Moth (Donald Marquis Poems)
i was talking to a moththe other eveninghe was trying to break intoan electric light bulband fry himself on the ...
To A Dancing Doll (Donald Marquis Poems)
FORMAL, quaint, precise, and trim, You begin your steps demurely -- There's a spirit almost prim In the feet that ...
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 ...
A Hymn (Donald Marquis Poems)
CLOTHED on with thunder and with steel And black against the dawn The whirling armies clash and reel. . . ...
The Land Of Yesterday (Donald Marquis Poems)
AND I would seek the country town Amid green meadows nestled down If I could only find the way Back ...
King Pandion, He Is Dead (Donald Marquis Poems)
DREAMERS, drinkers, rebel youth, Where's the folly free and fine You and I mistook for truth? Wits and wastrels, friends ...
Literary Jealousy (Donald Marquis Poems)
dear boss i dont seewhy you keep that ugly boston bull terrier petehanging aroundeating his head offin these hard timeshe ...
Pete Petitions (Donald Marquis Poems)
when we are in the city we must walkon streets all made of stonewith me upon a leashand even in ...
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Donald Marquis Poems)
CONQUERORS leonine, lordly, Princes and vaunting kings, Ye are drunk with the sound of your braggart trumps -- But lo! ...
Time Steals From Love (Donald Marquis Poems)
TIME steals from Love all but Love's wings; And how should aught but evil things, Or any good but death, ...