The Cockroach Who Had Been To Hell (Donald Marquis Poems)
listen to me i havebeen mobbed almosttheres an old simp cockroachhere who thinks he hasbeen to hell and allthe young ...
listen to me i havebeen mobbed almosttheres an old simp cockroachhere who thinks he hasbeen to hell and allthe young ...
i have just been readingan advertisement of a certainroach exterminatorthe human race little knowsall the sadness itcauses in the insect ...
LEADER no more, be judged of us! Hailed Chief, and loved, of yore -- Youth, and the faith of youth, ...
SHE is hot to the sea that crouches beside, Human and hot to the cool stars peering down, My passionate ...
THEY haunt me, they tease me with hinted Withheld revelations, The songs that I may not utter; They lead me, ...
Put by the sword (a dreamer saith), The years of peace draw nigh! Already the millennial dawn Makes red the ...
THE creeds he wrought of dream and thought Fall from him at the touch of life, His old gods fail ...
Archaeologists have discovered a love-letter among the ruins of Babylon. -- Newspaper report.The world hath just one tale to tell, ...
dear boss i wish you would speakto that lazy good for nothingboston bull terrier of yourswhom you call petepete has ...
My dust in ruined Babylon Is blown along the level plain, And songs of mine at dawn have soared Above ...
i was talking to a moththe other eveninghe was trying to break intoan electric light bulband fry himself on the ...
FORMAL, quaint, precise, and trim, You begin your steps demurely -- There's a spirit almost prim In the feet that ...
A GHOST is the freak of a sick man's brain? Then why do ye start and shiver so? That's the ...
WHERE tides of tossed wistaria bloom Foam up in purple turbulence, Where twining boughs have built a room And wing'd ...
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 ...
THE steam, the reek, the fume, of prayer Blown outward for a million years, Becomes a mist between the spheres, ...
LAZY and slow, through the snags and trees Move the sluggish currents, half asleep; Around and between the cypress knees, ...
AND some still cry: "What is the use? The service rendered? What the gain? Heroic, yes! -- but in what ...
I AM mine own priest, and I shrive myself Of all my wasted yesterdays. Though sin And sloth and foolishness, ...
IT shifts and shifts from form to form, It drifts and darkles, gleams and glows; It is the passion of ...
THE mother by the gallows-tree, The gallows-tree, the gallows-tree, (While the twitching body mocked the sun) Lifted to Heaven her ...
By Tigris, or the streams of Ind, Ere Colchis rose, or Babylon, Forgotten empires dreamed and sinned, Setting tall towns ...
A LITTLE while, with love and youth, He wandered, singing: -- He felt life's pulses hot and strong Beat all ...
CLOTHED on with thunder and with steel And black against the dawn The whirling armies clash and reel. . . ...
WHERE the singers of Saturn find tongue, Where the Galaxy's lovers embrace, Our world and its beauty are sung! They ...
WE stood among the boats and nets; We saw the swift clouds fall, We watched the schooners scamper in Before ...
boss i am disappointed insome of your readers theyare always asking how doesarchy work the shift so as to get ...
a lightning bug gotin here the other night aregular hick fromthe real country he wasawful proud of himself youcity insects ...
HELD and thrilled by the vision I stood, as the twilight died, Where the great bridge soars like a song ...
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