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 ...
AND I would seek the country town Amid green meadows nestled down If I could only find the way Back ...
after i ate my dinner then i atepart of a shoei found some archies by a bathroom pipeand ate them ...
YE are dead, they say, but ye swore, ye swore, Ye would come to me back from the sea! From ...
DREAMERS, drinkers, rebel youth, Where's the folly free and fine You and I mistook for truth? Wits and wastrels, friends ...
The things that I can't have I want And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do ...
dear boss i dont seewhy you keep that ugly boston bull terrier petehanging aroundeating his head offin these hard timeshe ...
when we are in the city we must walkon streets all made of stonewith me upon a leashand even in ...
GALAHADS, Galahads, Percivals, gallop! Bayards, to the saddle! -- the clangorous trumpets, Hoarse with their ecstasy, call to the mellay. ...
A little while the tears and laughter, The willow and the rose -- A little while, and what comes after ...
CONQUERORS leonine, lordly, Princes and vaunting kings, Ye are drunk with the sound of your braggart trumps -- But lo! ...
THE great guns slay from a league away, the death- bolts fly unseen, And bellowing hill replies to hill, machine ...
PERCHANCE the dying gods of Earth Are destined to another birth, And worn-out creeds regain their worth In the kindly ...
O, why do they hunt so hard, so hard, who have no need of food?Do they hunt for hate? --- ...
FLEET across the grasses Flash the feet of Spring, Piping, as he passes Fleet across the grasses, "Follow, lads and ...
MUCH listening through the silences, Much staring through the night, And lo! the dumb blind distances Are bridged with speech ...
we found a hill all green with grassand cool with clover bloomwhere bees go booming as they passboom zoom boommy ...
VERY red are the roses of Sharon, But redder thy mouth, There is nard, there is myrrh, in En Gedi, ...
God never plucks me by the sleeve And begs for my advice, And since He doesn't all His works Leave ...
WE have come "the primrose way," Folly, thou and I! Such a glamor and a grace Ever glimmered on thy ...
WITH half-hearted levies of frost that make foray, retire, and refrain -- Ambiguous bugles that blow and that falter to ...
ALACK-A-DAY for poverty! What jewels my mind doth give to thee! Carved agate stone porphyrogene, Green emerald and beryl green, ...
When first I chased and beat you to your knees And wried your arm and marked your temple bone And ...
OUT of the soil and the slime, Reeking, they climb, Out of the muck and the mire, Rank, they aspire; ...
I pray Thee, make my colyum read,And give me thus my daily bread.Endow me, if Thou grant me wit,Likewise with ...
HE speaks as straight as his rifles shot, As straight as a thrusting blade, Waiting the deed that shall trouble ...
So let them pass, these songs of mine, Into oblivion, nor repine; Abandoned ruins of large schemes, Dimmed lights adrift ...
THE soul of the Spring through its body of earth Bursts in a bloom of fire, And the crocuses come ...
We are the shaken slaves of Breath: For logic leaves the race unstirred; But cadence, and the vibrant word, Are ...
EARTH loves to gibber o'er her dross, Her golden souls, to waste; The cup she fills for her god-men Is ...
YOUR rondeau's tale must still be light -- No bugle-call to life's stern fight! Rather a smiling interlude Memorial to ...
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