George Henry Boker

American poet, playwright, and diplomat

George Henry Boker (October 6, 1823January 2, 1890) was an American poet, playwright, and diplomat.

George Henry Boker

Quotes

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  • Lovers are
    Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot
    Of their misdeeds.
    • Francesca da Rimini (1853), Act V, scene II, in Plays and Poems (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), Vol. I, p. 462.
  • Love is that orbit of the restless soul
    Whose circle grazes the confines of space,
    Bounding within the limits of its race
    Utmost extremes.
    • Sonnet: "Love is that orbit", line 1, in Plays and Poems (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), Vol. II, p. 400.
  • "Freedom!" their battle-cry,—
    "Freedom! or leave to die!"
    • "The Black Regiment", stanza 5, in Poems of the War (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), p. 101.
  • Fold him in his country's stars,
    Roll the drum and fire the volley!
    What to him are all our wars,
    What but death bemocking folly?
    • "Dirge for a Soldier (in Memory of General Philip Kearny)", stanza 3, in Poems of the War (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), p. 169.
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