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 ...
XXVIWhen we two parted, on a summer day, With lingering hands, with sobs, with swimming eyes, With broken phrases, half ...
These blows of fate that shake our troubled life, This long, long sorrow o'er our parted fate, Like foes assailing ...
O for my sake do you with fortune chide-- I almost took sad Shakespeare's thought for mine, So closely fits ...
LXIXI cannot tell what charms my lady finds In this dull face, huge form and sullen soul; Nor how my ...
Love sat at ease upon Time's bony knee; Pulled his grey beard; paddled his finger-tips Among his wrinkles; smote his ...
CXLWelcome, thou added sum of all delights, Thou glittering summit of completed joy, Thou perfect bliss, whose sweets could never ...
Ah! Could I ever grow in some remote degree Nearer the whiteness of my darling's love; By likening her, my ...
XCIXThere shines a leaf on every slender spray, The spring has found the violets in their nooks, There hides no ...
XCIWhen this warm hand is cold in death, and all The wide world over thou may'st seek in vain For ...
I cannot think thou would'st forget me even Amidst the mystic jubilee above, My heart's great joy, my closely nestling ...
Half that we learn is wisdom of the heart, Which owes but little to the probing brain-- A broad foundation, ...
XXO sacred head that felt her queenly hand! O regal brow, round which her arms have wound A prouder circle ...
I cannot tell thee, Sweet, what tenderness Flows from my heart, through chequered hopes and fears-- What mournful gladness and ...
I will not have our holy love profaned By that untruth which slanders as impure The rites we keep, however ...
O say thou lovest me; say it o'er again; Ring all the changes on that blissful phrase; Say it with ...
LXIWhen I remember, Love, the happy hours That came too rarely, and appeared too brief, Rescued by us from our ...
CXXThe dreary shadows round my heart tonight May be a gloom forecasting coming ill; The shuddering tremors which my spirit ...
Darling, I kiss thee from thy slender feet Up to the curls around thy tender brow; Each fervent kiss upon ...
Within this realm, sweet Lady, thou art queen--Queen? Goddess, rather; for upon thy will The whole great pageant changes or ...
XVIIToo full of rapture was this sunny day! My senses ache from that through which they passed: Immortal joys were ...
If any comfort lies within the zone Of ruddy gold that round thy finger clings; If from the ruby's steady ...
I cannot tell thee when my heart began To love thee, Dearest; for I cannot say That any record of ...
Go count the violets on April's breast, And all the rosy censers swung by June; Yea, every flower that opens, ...
If it console thee, Sweet, to be aware That not alone thy grievous load is borne, That every golden eve ...
The dreadful vision of my fears has burst Upon our unprotected heads at last; Gloom swallows gloom, blast rises over ...
LXVITonight I walked with the grim Florentine Through all the woes of his material hell; And wondered greatly of the ...
Another year has passed us, while the earth Grew green and grey again beneath our eyes, And now once more, ...
Her prudish foot, seen rarely as a nun, Is steep and narrow, flexible as steel, Touching her pathway but at ...
Sing of her beauty! Sing of that which grows My daily wonder! Shall this lute essay To paint the color ...
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