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 ...
I lay in my tent at mid-day, Too full of pain to die,When I heard the voice of Burnside, And ...
They cannot part us. With this power of song, Through every circumstance, and time and place, I hold communion with ...
CIIIParted again! Shall partings never cease? After the rapture of a few short days, Above whose brightest hour there glooms ...
There are more ways to heaven than mortals know; One reaches it through solemn praise and prayer, Another through the ...
Clamber again into thy midday place, O sun of love, now so besmirched with cloud; So crossed and railed against ...
O, I am apt of others' charms to sing. I had a mistress with a scarlet lip, Shaped by Love's ...
As some new ghost, that wanders to and fro By dreary Lethe, turns his vacant eyes, Drowsy with recent death, ...
LXXMy lady's senses are so pure and fine, She takes small pleasure in the close embrace That love and nature ...
Heaven shaped her ear in fashioning the shell, A pearly circlet, lined with faintest pink; So dainty thin, the light ...
This comfort only have I in my woes,-- To feed my heart upon thy pictured face, To draw thy shadow ...
If not the painter's nor the sculptor's skill Can give thy beauty its entitled place; Catch the revealings of that ...
The waves of busy life that whirling go Through thy long streets, O city of my birth, With all their ...
The beams of morning flicker round my face; I start and waken, and before me lies The rising sun just ...
I sometimes feel so lonely! O my God, I sometimes feel as though the race of man Denies my birthright, ...
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