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 ...
If I was a bloke as could paint,Bill said, "which I ain't,Lord! The pictures I'd doOf ships runnin' freeIn the ...
Why do we lie'Why do we lie,' she questioned, her warm eyeson the grey Autumn wind and its coursing,'all afternoon ...
How graciously thou wear'st the yoke Of use that does not fail!The grasses, like an anchored smoke, Ride in the ...
Way up along the mountain side and up on the mesas high.You watch the silent shadows glide as the clowds ...
Outside the snowstorm spins, and hidesThe world beneath a pall.Snowed under are the paper-girl,The papers and the stall.Quite often our ...
If I were a bear,And a big bear too,I shouldn't much careIf it froze or snew;I shouldn't much mindIf it ...
It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm The flakes could find no landing place to form. Hordes ...
Henry the first, surnamed " Beauclare," Lost his only son William at sea, So when Henry died it were hard ...
It seldom snowed, they said, it might get cold but it won't be snow; well, one should guess the locals ...
It seldom snowed in Camp they said, on the mountains, yes, and in the Styx, aka zone six. That's where ...
It seldom snowed they said, and they were nearly right. In all of nine eventful seasons crystal white on average ...
It seldom snowed they said, perhaps they're right although seldom was never in that endless summer which tightened a fiery ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
A prince I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face, Of temper amorous, as the first of May, With lengths of ...
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
What was the blackest sight to me Of all that campaign? A naked woman tied to a tree With jagged ...
I've never ceased to curse the day I signed A seven years' bargain for the Golden Fleece. 'Twas a bad ...
(To Mrs. Henry Richards) Isaac and Archibald were two old men. I knew them, and I may have laughed at ...
Storm-clouds hurtle, storm-clouds hover; Flying snow is set alight By the moon whose form they cover; Blurred the heavens, blurred ...
It snowed and snowed ,the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on ...
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