Sonnet CIX: “More than mere instinct, straight against ther scope” (George Henry Boker Poems)
CIXMore than mere instinct, straight against the scope Of reason's counsel is the desperate hold We lay on life, however ...
CIXMore than mere instinct, straight against the scope Of reason's counsel is the desperate hold We lay on life, however ...
The satyr nature riots in my blood. "Of the earth, earthy!" I in vain exclaim. The text falls on me ...
I play the masquer to the world, I grant, I flash the spangles of my art before Its staring eyes; ...
Well, after all the prattle buzzed around The soldier's victory, the miser's gold, The statesman's eloquence, the manifold And subtle ...
If we were fashioned to be ignorant, And frisk and frolic with the kid and fawn, Rest with the sun ...
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