Vestigia Retrorsum (George Henry Boker Poems)
There is a spot I call accursed,Because my thoughts for ever wingBack to its gloom, from whence they burst,And settle ...
There is a spot I call accursed,Because my thoughts for ever wingBack to its gloom, from whence they burst,And settle ...
Oh! I have touched the blazing crown of bliss, Reached the last summit, where to breathe and stand, But somewhat ...
CLLet the world's people hiss at us! I meet Their stormiest bickerings with an equal brow; It is but natural ...
Falsehood to thee would be the blackest crime My conscience frowns at; and 'twere falsehood sure To thee, whose soul ...
XCIXThere shines a leaf on every slender spray, The spring has found the violets in their nooks, There hides no ...
In lingering winter was my darling born, To make amends by Nature for her dearth And cutting winds, that over ...
LXXXFrom this wide outlook on art's lonely peak, I should descry what fortune lies afar Under the influence of her ...
I have a faith that love can do as much; Love that works miracles against a time When all the ...
LIIIn truth, Love, but a single hope remains-- The hope to win thee at the bitter end Of many trials. ...
Night takes the scepter from the hand of day, And sets her drowsy stars about the world; The winds are ...
Although the story of our love be lost In the long vista of the coming years,-- All its fair smiles, ...
Sometimes when loitering by the bitter shore Where brood the shadows of the things to be, The vast, dim circle ...
LThis is the perfect crown of all things here! So proud am I, in my own self-esteem, I touch myself ...
If beauty is not an immortal thing, And that fair casket, thy transcendent form, Never again to throbbing life shall ...
CFor life and death to me are so akin, So aptly one suggests the other's being; So quickly treads behind ...
CCLXXXVIIIO, I adjure thee, keep my words in mind, Thou fragrant lily, thou too tempting flower, Growing to grace in ...
For thy dear safety, not for mine own ease, I am thus kindly cruel, unhappy girl! Securer far than thine, ...
XVIAll the world's malice, all the spite of fate, Cannot undo the rapture of the past. I, like a victor, ...
Yet not because the world turns coldly by, And makes its idols out of meaner clay, Decking their shrines with ...
Such of her beauties as the world may see, Whose eyes escort her eagerly around, Lackeying her way with homage ...
My lady's birthday rises golden fair, And I arise to see the lord of light Beaconing the land from every ...
I never courted miser, fool or knave; Nor held my heart up as a thing to sell In open market, ...
LVI strive to live my life in whitest truth, Even in the face of this deceitful world; And if in ...
O World, I owe thee nothing; I have had Not even my wages from thy niggard hand, For all I ...
If I were able to disclose thy charms, And truly paint, as they appear to me, Those latent beauties I ...
I play the masquer to the world, I grant, I flash the spangles of my art before Its staring eyes; ...
I touched the limit of supremest bliss, Knew joy's whole secret on this golden day; When in my arms my ...
Within the circle of my darling's charms I stand as grimly as some ruin old, Which creeping roses tenderly enfold ...
Cast on the lily's cheek the rose's glow, And while the world with morning dew is wet, Inhale the fragrance ...
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