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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS: 4., by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poet's Biography First Line: Love is that orbit of the restless soul Last Line: And thence return with careful chart and date, %to mark which way another's course must lie? | |||
Love is that orbit of the restless soul Whose circle grazes the confines of space, Bounding within the limits of its race Utmost extremes; whose high and topmost pole Within the very glaze of heaven doth roll; Whose nether course is through the darkest place Eclipsed by hell. What daring hand shall trace The blended joys and sorrows that control A heart whose journeys the fixed hand of Fate Points through this pathway? Who may soar so high, -- Behold such glories with unwinking eye? Who drop so low beneath his mortal state, And thence return with careful chart and date, To mark which way another's course must lie? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER [SEPTEMBER 1, 1862] by GEORGE HENRY BOKER THE BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN [NOVEMBER 24, 1863] by GEORGE HENRY BOKER THE BLACK REGIMENT by GEORGE HENRY BOKER BEFORE VICKSBURG by GEORGE HENRY BOKER FRANCESCA DA RIMINI by GEORGE HENRY BOKER HOOKER'S ACROSS by GEORGE HENRY BOKER LOVE SONNET by GEORGE HENRY BOKER ON BOARD THE CUMBERLAND by GEORGE HENRY BOKER PRINCE ADEB by GEORGE HENRY BOKER |
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