Sonnet XXIII: “I have thy love, and were I drunk with joy” (George Henry Boker Poems)
I have thy love, and were I drunk with joy That were enough. I'd revel out my day, Thoughtless of ...
I have thy love, and were I drunk with joy That were enough. I'd revel out my day, Thoughtless of ...
It seems to mock me: all this heat and bloom, And the shrill paeans of the laureate bird; As though ...
CXXIDoes not the round in which my numbers plod, These same few changes, wrung from fewer strings, This endless iteration ...
XCIWhen this warm hand is cold in death, and all The wide world over thou may'st seek in vain For ...
XIVO Love, I leave thee all that I hold dear, Thy precious self, in faithful ward to keep. I need ...
O say thou lovest me; say it o'er again; Ring all the changes on that blissful phrase; Say it with ...
Time masks, but cannot bound my love for thee; All the year's changes, the bud, bloom, and fall Of the ...
LVIThe lagging days crawl slowly to their end, The weeks sum up in months, and glide away, The jolly bells ...
I know not if one beauty less or more This year hath left upon my darling's face, Or if today ...
The waves of busy life that whirling go Through thy long streets, O city of my birth, With all their ...
I do not falter in the sight of God; This bare-browed standing in His awful view, Strips the illusions off ...
When I consider what a time has flown, Shaping this planet to the thing we see, And what unnumbered ages ...
Against the changes of obsequious time, That shifts his seasons as his lord, the sun, Dictates which way his supple ...
Speed on thy solemn pilgrimage, O Earth; And count thy rosary of golden days Before thy Maker's feet in prayerful ...
CCXVEven as the level sunlight glorifies A musky vapor, born of dust and mist, Turning its motes to lucent amethyst, ...
If in the liking of thine eye to live, To shift my colors as thy fancies change, To school my ...
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