



Produced by Judith Boss









  DREAMS & DUST

  POEMS BY DON MARQUIS




  TO
  MY MOTHER
  VIRGINIA WHITMORE MARQUIS









  CONTENTS


  PROEM


  DAYLIGHT HUMORS

  THIS IS ANOTHER DAY
  APRIL SONG
  THE EARTH, IT IS ALSO A STAR
  THE NAME
  THE BIRTH
  A MOOD OF PAVLOWA
  THE POOL
  "THEY HAD NO POET"
  NEW YORK
  A HYMN
  THE SINGER
  WORDS ARE NOT GUNS
  WITH THE SUBMARINES
  NICHOLAS OF MONTENEGRO
  DICKENS
  A POLITICIAN
  THE BAYONET
  THE BUTCHERS AT PRAYER




  SHADOWS

  HAUNTED
  A NIGHTMARE
  THE MOTHER
  IN THE BAYOU
  THE SAILOR'S WIFE SPEAKS
  HUNTED
  A DREAM CHILD
  ACROSS THE NIGHT
  SEA CHANGES
  THE TAVERN OF DESPAIR


  COLORS AND SURFACES

  A GOLDEN LAD
  THE SAGE AND THE WOMAN
  NEWS FROM BABYLON
  A RHYME OF THE ROADS
  THE LAND OF YESTERDAY
  OCTOBER
  CHANT OF THE CHANGING HOURS


  DREAMS AND DUST

  SELVES
  THE WAGES
  IN MARS, WHAT AVATAR?
  THE GOD-MAKER, MAN
  UNREST
  THE PILTDOWN SKULL
  THE SEEKER
  THE AWAKENING
  A SONG OF MEN
  THE NOBLER LESSON
  AT LAST


  LYRICS

  "KING PANDION, HE IS DEAD"
  DAVID TO BATHSHEBA
  THE JESTERS
  "MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY"
  THE TRIOLET
  FROM THE BRIDGE
  "PALADINS, PALADINS, YOUTH NOBLE-HEARTED"
  "MY LANDS, NOT THINE"
  TO A DANCING DOLL
  LOWER NEW YORK--A STORM
  AT SUNSET
  A CHRISTMAS GIFT
  SILVIA
  THE EXPLORERS
  EARLY AUTUMN
  "TIME STEALS FROM LOVE"
  THE RONDEAU
  VISITORS
  THE PARTING
  AN OPEN FIRE


  REALITIES

  REALITIES
  THE STRUGGLE
  THE REBEL
  THE CHILD AND THE MILL
  "SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI"
  THE COMRADE
  ENVOI





  PROEM

  "SO LET THEM PASS, THESE SONGS OF MINE"

  So let them pass, these songs of mine,
  Into oblivion, nor repine;
  Abandoned ruins of large schemes,
  Dimmed lights adrift from nobler dreams,

  Weak wings I sped on quests divine,
  So let them pass, these songs of mine.
  They soar, or sink ephemeral--
  I care not greatly which befall!

  For if no song I e'er had wrought,
  Still have I loved and laughed and fought;
  So let them pass, these songs of mine;
  I sting too hot with life to whine!

  Still shall I struggle, fail, aspire,
  Lose