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 ...
What are you waiting for, George, I pray? —To scour your cross-belts with fresh pipe-clay?To burnish your buttons, to brighten ...
Soldiers are we from the mountain and valley, Soldiers are we from the hill and the plain;Under the flag of ...
Dark as the clouds of even,Ranked in the western heaven,Waiting the breath that liftsAll the dread mass, and driftsTempest and ...
O brother bards, why stand ye silent all, Amidst these days of noble strife,While drum and fife and the ...
Close his eyes; his work is done! What to him is friend or foeman,Rise of moon, or set of sun, ...
ILear and Cordelia! 't was an ancient tale Before thy Shakespeare gave it deathless fame: The times have changed, the ...
Crown we our heroes with a holier wreathThan man e'er wore upon this side of death;Mix with their laurels deathless ...
Clash, clash goes the sabre against my steed's side,Kling, kling go the rowels, as onward I ride;And all my bright ...
XCVDeath on his mission sought my lady's side; She turned her eyes, and caught him in their glance: Something he ...
VIIIO weary watches of the dismal night! O lone, lone soul that staggers through the dark, Sullen and moody, like ...
XXXWhen all the labors of the day are past, And on the world-exposed and fretted edge Of my sad soul, ...
Closer and closer draw thou to my side! Thou hast more need of love than ever yet Since first thy ...
IIIAs a lorn sailor clinging to the wreck, On which he starved through many a doleful day, Sees o'er the ...
I have thy love, and were I drunk with joy That were enough. I'd revel out my day, Thoughtless of ...
Oh! I have touched the blazing crown of bliss, Reached the last summit, where to breathe and stand, But somewhat ...
CXVOh spring, that hides the wrinkled earth in green, And decorates the cracked and rugged bark Of trees with lichens ...
When mateless Adam loitered in the shade, Glad as a child, and felt the pulse of life Make its own ...
They cannot part us. With this power of song, Through every circumstance, and time and place, I hold communion with ...
XXVIWhen we two parted, on a summer day, With lingering hands, with sobs, with swimming eyes, With broken phrases, half ...
CLLet the world's people hiss at us! I meet Their stormiest bickerings with an equal brow; It is but natural ...
These blows of fate that shake our troubled life, This long, long sorrow o'er our parted fate, Like foes assailing ...
There blew a breeze across the flowers, that said, "Love is the sweetest thing which mortals know!" And so I ...
Tonight I saw my darling, bathed in light, Sit as she slowly combed her splendid hair Into one tress, through ...
CIXMore than mere instinct, straight against the scope Of reason's counsel is the desperate hold We lay on life, however ...
CIIIParted again! Shall partings never cease? After the rapture of a few short days, Above whose brightest hour there glooms ...
O for my sake do you with fortune chide-- I almost took sad Shakespeare's thought for mine, So closely fits ...
CXIVOf all the dreams I dreamed in bygone years, But one remains, imprinted on my age, And even that record, ...
Sweet, when thy brow becomes the haunted spot Of Death's grim heralds, care and wasting pain, And all my bitter ...
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