Your triolet should glimmer
Like a butterfly;
In golden light, or dimmer,
Your triolet should glimmer,
Tremble, turn, and shimmer,
Flash, and flutter by;
Your triolet should glimmer
Like a butterfly.

(C) Don Marquis
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Don Marquis

• Moonlight
• In The Bayou
• My Lands, Not Thine
• King Pandion, He Is Dead
• Hunted
• In Mars, What Avatar?
• Moonset
• From The Bridge
• Morning
• News From Babylon
• New York
• Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
• The Ghost Speaks
• Lower New Yorka Storm
• Early Autumn
• Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
• So Let Them Pass, These Songs Of Mine
• David To Bathsheba
• A Song Of Men
• A Christmas Gift
• A Golden Lad