George Henry Boker



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

Quotes

 * 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.