Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about George Henry Boker
George Henry Boker Quotes
4 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
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
Source
Report...
"Freedom!" their battle-cry,—
"Freedom! or leave to die!"
George Henry Boker
Source
Report...
Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.
George Henry Boker
Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Herbert Croly
George Henry Boker
Creative Commons
Born:
October 6, 1823
Died:
January 2, 1890
(aged 66)
Bio:
George Henry Boker was an American poet, playwright, and diplomat.
Known for:
Anne Boleyn: A Tragedy (1850)
The Bee-Keeper's Manual
Sonnets: A Sequence on Profane Love
George Henry Boker on Wikipedia
George Henry Boker works on Gutenberg Project
George Henry Boker works on Wikisource
Suggest an edit or a new quote
American Playwright Quotes
Playwright Quotes
19th-century Playwright Quotes
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
