Poetic Openings : Don Marquis to Don Marquis
Poet : Don Marquis : Poem : The Awakening : First Line : The steam, the reek, the fume, of prayerPoet : Don Marquis : Poem : The Bayonet : First Line : The great guns slay from a league away, the death-
Poet : Don Marquis : Poem : The Birth : First Line : There is a legend that the love of God
Poet : Don Marquis : Poem : The Butchers At Prayer : First Line : Each nation as it draws the sword
Poet : Don Marquis : Poem : The Child And The Mill : First Line : Better a pauper, penniless, asleep on the kindly