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George Henry Boker
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“Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.”
George Henry Boker (1823–1890) first seen 1853 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
George Henry Boker (1823–1890) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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!”
George Henry Boker (1823–1890) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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?”
George Henry Boker (1823–1890) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dirge for a Soldier (in Memory of General Philip Kearny)", stanza 3, in Poems of the War (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), p. 169.