Potential Titles: Don Marquis

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Bridged with speech and sight - Don Marquis "Across the Night"

Love and I laughed down the fates - Don Marquis "Across the Night"

Only ghosts of gods and wraiths - Don Marquis "At Last"

Shall give the next Prometheus birth - Don Marquis "At Last"

And scale the bastioned nights - Don Marquis "At Last"

Pallid wraiths of long-dead moons - Don Marquis "At Last"

Blown outward for a million years - Don Marquis "The Awakening"

Becomes a mist between the spheres - Don Marquis "The Awakening"

With dower of many idler things - Don Marquis "The Awakening"

Vexing the void abyss - Don Marquis "The Butchers at Prayer (1914)"

Your wild jest of wicked prayer - Don Marquis "The Butchers at Prayer (1914)"

Blown garments bright as fire - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

A morrice chime of jostled bells - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

The briar thrilled into jocund life - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

The garnered music of a million Springs - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Before their conquering word - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

The mused soul that dwells in dust - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Breathing dusk and arrowy moonlight - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Strange lilies bloomed in lightless cells - Don Marquis "Chant of the Changing Hours"

Kin to the idle lilies - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"

Their mills and their bloody hands - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"

Marred in the mills of grief - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"

False gods of gold and steel - Don Marquis "The Child and the Mill"

A hint of grace immortal - Don Marquis "The Comrade"

Who stained the slopes with bloody feet - Don Marquis "The Comrade"

On some hard-won eminence of hope - Don Marquis "The Comrade"

And strike stark Chaos from his throne - Don Marquis "The Comrade"

Iron ice bound all the bitter seas - Don Marquis "Dickens"

Brought the sun from other skies - Don Marquis "Dickens"

When hope grows sick and courage quails - Don Marquis "Dickens"

Put blood of roses in his veins - Don Marquis "A Dream Child"

The host of the Autumn still hide - Don Marquis "Early Autumn"

Girt with the glamor of conquest - Don Marquis "Early Autumn"

Scarved with red symbols of pride - Don Marquis "Early Autumn"

Girdled with swinging waters - Don Marquis "From the Bridge"

Banded with loops of light - Don Marquis "From the Bridge"

And vanish like plunging stars - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Brief lords of the changing soul - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Worships his own desire - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Tenanted only by wraiths - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Clothes them with music and fire - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Fixed in the whirling heavens - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Storm the black bastions of Night - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Clothes them with thunders and beauty - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Fallen mute are the strings of Apollo - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

The temples that challenged the aeons - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Where Time enters not with his Hours - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Dust be the ultimate goal - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

The dangerous, tender regard of the gods - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"

Young lord of the realms of fancy - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"

The necromancy of a Prospero holds in thrall - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"

Dwelt in an alien glamor - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"

These gods that make perfect and blight - Don Marquis "A Golden Lad (D.V.M.)"

And here in the shadows I wait - Don Marquis "Haunted"

Heard a voice in the calling wind - Don Marquis "Haunted"

Up the starrier ways of time - Don Marquis "Hymn (1914)"

Their substance but a shade - Don Marquis "Hymn (1914)"

Only the frogs and the gray owl know - Don Marquis "In the Bayou"

The frogs would tell you if they could - Don Marquis "In the Bayou"

Here's the crow's-foot for a sign - Don Marquis "'King Pandion, He Is Dead'"

Quick pardon for the selfish years - Don Marquis "The Land of Yesterday"

Against the towers of stone and steel - Don Marquis "Lower New York--A Storm"

Bursts in a bloom of fire - Don Marquis "A Mood of Pavlowa"

In a rainbow riot of mirth - Don Marquis "A Mood of Pavlowa"

Driven along by the carnival winds - Don Marquis "A Mood of Pavlowa"

In futile glory storm the skies - Don Marquis "The Name"

To the cool stars peering down - Don Marquis "New York"

At one with her branded Cains - Don Marquis "New York"

Wakened and shaken and broken - Don Marquis "New York"

Building Babel's towers - Don Marquis "News from Babylon"

Love in the bonds of breath - Don Marquis "News from Babylon"

Clamor warring wastes of flood - Don Marquis "A Nightmare"

Spendthrift of the seasons' gold - Don Marquis "October"

Spill mirth in tangled madrigals - Don Marquis "October"

Purposes dissolved in wine - Don Marquis "The Parting"

The sense of the silence in song - Don Marquis "The Pool"

Where yonder trout flashes - Don Marquis "The Pool"

Abandoned ruins of larger schemes - Don Marquis "Proem"

Dimmed lights adrift from nobler dreams - Don Marquis "Proem"

And drink dream-deep life's heady wine - Don Marquis "Proem"

The ordered worlds speed on - Don Marquis "The Rebel"

And all the outcast choir - Don Marquis "The Rebel"

The pennons of morning advance - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"

To the music of rock-fretted rills - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"

Snare the bright wings of delight - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"

Vine-wreathed and vagabond Love - Don Marquis "A Rhyme of the Roads"

Down aisles of tangled underwood - Don Marquis "The Rondeau"

Like April blossoms wind-pursued - Don Marquis "The Rondeau"

How many a careless caravan - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"

Some loose-tongued prophet's meddling word - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"

The wild pipes of witchcraft played - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"

Within these forty centuries - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"

Until they read in Folly's eyes - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"

Three spells I have laid on the rising sun - Don Marquis "The Sailor's Wife Speaks"

Jets and sprays of melody - Don Marquis "Sea Changes I: Morning"

Stole through the hollow sky - Don Marquis "Sea Changes II: Moonlight"

Shapes mad fancies into facts - Don Marquis "Sea Changes II: Moonlight"

A starbeam on the dagger's haft - Don Marquis "Sea Changes III: Moonset"

The sobbing reef and hollowed shore - Don Marquis "Sea Changes III: Moonset"

Horror walks their shingled reaches - Don Marquis "Sea Changes III: Moonset"

Amid the wreck of visions dead - Don Marquis "The Seeker"

From written rune and stricken reed - Don Marquis "Selves"

Haunted coasts of time - Don Marquis "Selves"

To which the Sphinx hath known the rhyme - Don Marquis "Selves"

Unconquered by the sunless hours - Don Marquis "Silvia"

Drowsing on some bed of pansies - Don Marquis "Silvia"

By Titania's necromancies - Don Marquis "Silvia"

Soar with broken wings - Don Marquis "The Singer"

The leagued might of futile things - Don Marquis "The Singer"

Filthy with murder and mud - Don Marquis "A Song of Men"

Lust and passion and clay - Don Marquis "A Song of Men"

Groping through terror and night - Don Marquis "A Song of Men"

How can one fight the sliding moonlight - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

Who set snares with roses - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

Who put serpents in your Edens - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

Wrapped me in the scorn of your silence - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

Tricksters that set traps in paradise - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

That hedge yourselves about with silence - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

Shaken moonlight writhed upon the rocks - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

The wraiths of murdered hopes - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Where Wit keeps tryst with Folly - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Mock our own blood on the thorns - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Mock the roses flung away - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Mock the garnered rue - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

That other company unbidden to the tryst - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Grown so fond of paradox - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Who mints his soul to laughter's coin - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

We fools self-doomed to motley - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Forgotten empires dreamed and sinned - Don Marquis "'They Had No Poet...'"

Where the singers of Saturn find tongue - Don Marquis "This Earth, It Is Also a Star"

Where the galaxy's lovers embrace - Don Marquis "This Earth, It Is Also a Star"

Fantasy laughs and gives chase - Don Marquis "This Earth, It Is Also a Star"

May fall as a symbol of grace - Don Marquis "This Earth, It Is Also a Star"

Where agony's bows interlace - Don Marquis "This Earth, It Is Also a Star"

Of all my wasted yesterdays - Don Marquis "This Is Another Day"

Yesterday I played the knave - Don Marquis "This Is Another Day"

With fog of futile sighs - Don Marquis "This Is Another Day"

And wrenched the fire from Zeus - Don Marquis "This Is Another Day"

Drink deep of the red mirth - Don Marquis "This Is Another Day"

That gave the gods their wings - Don Marquis "Unrest"

That die on the bosom of Silence - Don Marquis "Visitors"

Beside us glides the charnel shark - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"

Sows the night with troops of stealthy ghosts - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"

The foeman's dreadnoughts ride - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"

Steel apulse with all the power of hell - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"

Thought clothed in deed is lord - Don Marquis "Words Are Not Guns"


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