Dreams & Dust

by Don Marquis

DREAMS
& DUST

DON 🙢
MARQUIS

DREAMS
& DUST
POEMS
BY
Don Marquis

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK & LONDON

Dreams and Dust

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Copyright, 1915. by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published October. 1915

TO
MY MOTHER
Virginia Whitmore Marquis

CONTENTS

PAGE

Proem ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

ix

DAYLIGHT HUMORS

This Is Another Day ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

3

April Song ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

5

The Earth, It Is Also a Star ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

7

The Name ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

9

The Birth ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

11

A Mood of Pavlowa ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

12

The Pool ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

13

"They Had No Poet …" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

15

New York ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

17

A Hymn ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

19

The Singer ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

21

Words Are Not Guns ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

23

With the Submarines ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

26

Nicholas of Montenegro ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

29

Dickens ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

30

A Politician ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

33

The Bayonet ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

36

The Butchers at Prayer ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

38

SHADOWS

Haunted ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

41

A Nightmare ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

43

The Mother ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

44

In the Bayou ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

46

The Sailor's Wife Speaks ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

48

Hunted ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

50

A Dream Child ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

52

Across the Night ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

54

Sea Changes ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

56

The Tavern of Despair ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

65

COLORS AND SURFACES

A Golden Lad ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

71

The Sage and the Woman ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

74

News from Babylon ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

78

A Rhyme of the Roads ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

81

The Land of Yesterday ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

85

October ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

87

Chant of the Changing Hours ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

90

DREAMS AND DUST

Selves ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

97

The Wages ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

99

In Mars, What Avatar? ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

100

The God-maker, Man ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

102

Unrest ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

107

The Piltdown Skull ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

109

The Seeker ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

111

The Awakening ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

114

A Song of Men ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

116

The Nobler Lesson ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

118

At Last ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

119

LYRICS

"King Pandion, He Is Dead" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

125

David to Bathsheba ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

127

The Jesters ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

129

"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

132

The Triolet ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

133

From the Bridge ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

134

"Paladins, Paladins, Youth Noble-hearted" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

136

"My Lands, Not Thine" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

138

To a Dancing Doll ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

139

Lower New York—a Storm ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

142

At Sunset ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

143

A Christmas Gift ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

144

Silvia ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

146

The Explorers ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

152

Early Autumn ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

154

"Time Steals from Love" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

156

The Rondeau ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

157

Visitors ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

158

The Parting ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

161

An Open Fire ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

163

REALITIES

Realities ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

167

The Struggle ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

168

The Rebel ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

174

The Child and the Mill ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

176

"Sic Transit Gloria Mundi" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

179

The Comrade ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

181

Envoi ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

186