Sonnet CXCIX: “What spirit worthy of its noble birth” (George Henry Boker Poems)
What spirit worthy of its noble birth Regrets for Eden and the harmless state Of him who gamboled with his ...
What spirit worthy of its noble birth Regrets for Eden and the harmless state Of him who gamboled with his ...
Enfolding essence-binding all in one,All motion and all life,-the near, the far,-August,-enthroned beyond or sight or sunAnd yet most intimate ...
I shall be satisfiedWith the seeing of thy face.When I awake, wide-eyed,I shall be satisfiedWith what this life did hide,The ...
INSCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIQUE PITCHER Come, old friend! sit down and listen! From the pitcher, placed between us, How the ...
Spoken by Miss Ada Rehan at the Lyceum Theatre, July 23, 1890, at a performance on behalf of Lady Jeune's ...
Other loves may sink and settle, other loves may loose and slack, But I wander like a minstrel with a ...
A part, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone as the void uncovered: ...
A part, immutable, unseen, Being, before itself had been, Became. Like dew a triple queen Shone as the void uncovered: ...
All night the ways of Heaven were desolate, Long roads across a gleaming empty sky. Outcast and doomed and driven, ...
The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, ...
We walked beside the sea, After a day which perished silently Of its own glory---like the Princess weird Who, combating ...
MY future will not copy fair my past On any leaf but Heaven's. Be fully done Supernal Will ! I ...
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
On the white throat of useless passion That scorched my soul with its burning breath I clutched my fingers in ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone, Fared the steamer alert and loud through ...
OVER all the dream-built margin, flushed with grey and hoary light, Glint the bubble planets tossing in the dead black ...
WHO would think this quiet breather From the world had taken flight? Yet within the form we see there Wakes ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
A gentle spirit now above Once animated what lies here Till heav'n announc'd in tenderest love "Ascend Immortal to yon ...
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