Pete’s Holiday (Donald Marquis Poems)
we found a hill all green with grassand cool with clover bloomwhere bees go booming as they passboom zoom boommy ...
we found a hill all green with grassand cool with clover bloomwhere bees go booming as they passboom zoom boommy ...
Dogs take new friends abruptly and by smell,Cats' meetings are neat, tactual, caressive.Monkeys exchange their fleas before they speak.Snakes, no ...
O, why do they hunt so hard, so hard, who have no need of food?Do they hunt for hate? --- ...
The sheep are down at the water, a-drinkin' their bloomin' fill,An' me and the dog are dozin', as herders and ...
Already fallen plum-bloom stars the green And apple-boughs as knarred as old toads' backs Wear their ...
When, Lydia, you (once fond and true, But now grown cold and supercilious)Praise Telly's charms of neck and arms-- Well, ...
We wanted to confess our sins but there were no takers.White clouds refused to accept them, and the windWas too ...
The day's noise was draining away in my mindand the light from behind my eyeswhen savage Cypris grabbed a handful ...
I wrote a letter to my luveAn' posted it yestreen,In lile red pillar box 'at standsNigh Wesdale village green,I watched ...
I.Black men holding up the earth,Atlas burdened they descendDeep into the vale of Hell;And with valor long defendFairer brothers from ...
Blown out of the prairie in twilight and dew, Half bold and half timid, yet lazy all through; Loath ever ...
The troops are singing fervently, each for himself:God, protect me from misfortune,Father, Son and Holy Spirit,That no grenades strike me,That ...
Looking foolish next to the tree in a one o'clock rain: umbrella aloft, the leash in my other hand- I ...
Cut loose a hundred rivers,Roaring across my trail,Swift as the lightning quivers,Loud as a mountain gale.I build me a board ...
I started early, took my dog,And visited the sea;The mermaids in the basementCame out to look at me. And frigates ...
Mamma has bought a calendar, And every single page Has pictures on of little girls 'Most just about my age. ...
The cock is crowing,The cows are lowing,The ducks are quarking,The dogs are barking,The ass is braying,The horse is neighing;Was there ...
The cock is crowing,The cows are lowing,The ducks are quarking,The dogs are barking,The ass is braying,The horse is neighing;Was there ...
Thousands of stars twinkle in the gentle sky.The landscape glows. From the distant meadowMute marching men slowly come closer.Only once ...
this fear of being what they are:dead. at least they are not out on the street, theyare careful to stay ...
Had I an envied name and purse of gold,My friends were more than all my wants twice told;Reduced to rags ...
The lover to his lass: I have fallen before your door.I came to ask for alms and have lost my ...
Lobsters haven't any feet, But they have lots of claws; Yet lobster meat is good to eat, ...
Of Gonnehem it shall be said That we arrived there late and worn With marching, and were given a bed ...
Alone I pace the path we walked last year. Dost thou remember it? Then everywhere The wheat-fields shimmered in the ...
FAIR dog, which so my heart dost tear asunder, That my life's-blood, my bowels, overfloweth, Alas, what wicked rage conceal'st ...
They could not tell me who should be my lord, But I could read from every word they said The ...
Hey, there! Hoop-la! the circus is in town!Have you seen the elephant? Have you seen the clown?Have you seen the ...
Together in this grave lie Benjamin Painter, attorney at law, And Nig, his dog, constant companion, solace and friend. Down ...
Night after night goes by: and clocks still chime And stars are changing pattrns in the dark And watches tick, ...
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