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 ...
Clash, clash goes the sabre against my steed's side,Kling, kling go the rowels, as onward I ride;And all my bright ...
Closer and closer draw thou to my side! Thou hast more need of love than ever yet Since first thy ...
I have thy love, and were I drunk with joy That were enough. I'd revel out my day, Thoughtless of ...
CXIVOf all the dreams I dreamed in bygone years, But one remains, imprinted on my age, And even that record, ...
When mateless Adam loitered in the shade, Glad as a child, and felt the pulse of life Make its own ...
XXVIWhen we two parted, on a summer day, With lingering hands, with sobs, with swimming eyes, With broken phrases, half ...
There blew a breeze across the flowers, that said, "Love is the sweetest thing which mortals know!" And so I ...
CIIIParted again! Shall partings never cease? After the rapture of a few short days, Above whose brightest hour there glooms ...
Falsehood to thee would be the blackest crime My conscience frowns at; and 'twere falsehood sure To thee, whose soul ...
CXXXStand fast amidst the darkness! Ah! my dear, 'Tis easy loving where the sunshine falls, And Nature's voice on idle ...
Dear Lord, this sense of supernatural power, This stately mastery over earthly things, This plastic art that modulates and brings ...
I could not hope that one so rarely fair As thou, could firmly brook this shameful brand, This bare exposure ...
Love has no triumph and no future crown For feeble hearts, that cannot stand the test Of adverse fortunes--trials wellnigh ...
CIVSad is it that a love as pure as thine, Which to itself is so devoid of sin, Should find ...
Ah! Could I ever grow in some remote degree Nearer the whiteness of my darling's love; By likening her, my ...
If this be sorrow, I have never known The faintest touch of human grief till now-- That utter woe, o'erbrooding ...
LXWhen, Love, I sing of thee, such little cares As here oppress us on this narrow earth, The things that ...
XXXVI know, O Lord, the summer fields are green, And the rich splendor of the summer air Is full of ...
In famed Sakoontala I read tonight How King Dushyanta, in a moment, knew His consort--draped in robes of sable hue ...
XVWhere is my merit? By what special grace Am I so blessed above all other men? I have some fancy, ...
XXISometimes I fear thou'lt poise my muse's praise, Against my spoken words, and sharply cry "This man breathes lightning through ...
On my heart's altar when youth's fire burned low, And the grey ashes of years cold and sage Made the ...
I do not merit it that thou shouldst stir A step beyond the coldness of the shrine My heart has ...
Know you a soul so white and inly pure That sin itself, committed by her hand, Permitted by her brain, ...
I will not have our holy love profaned By that untruth which slanders as impure The rites we keep, however ...
LXIXI cannot tell what charms my lady finds In this dull face, huge form and sullen soul; Nor how my ...
CCIILove stirs the pulses of my deeper thought, Muses on things that were and things to be, Weaves for himself ...
In the deep cloister of the night, a nun, My gentle Love, thou walk'st; and from thy soul All traces ...
IWhen to his class the surgeon's skilful blade Reveals the mysteries of the inner man, So lost is science, brooding ...
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