Quote#Wisdom
Lovers are
Quote byGeorge Henry Boker · 1823–1890
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Francesca da Rimini (1853), Act V, scene II, in Plays and Poems (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), Vol. I, p. 462..
English (original)
Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.
— George Henry Boker
You may also like
Love is that orbit of the restless soul Whose circle grazes the confines of space, Bounding within the limits of its race Utmost extremes.
"Freedom!" their battle-cry,— "Freedom! or leave to die!"
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?
The scene was changed. It was a bark that slowly held its way, And o'er its lee the coast of France in the light of evening lay; And on its deck a lady sat, who gazed with tearful eyes Upon the fast receding hills that dim and distant rise.
What great Effects from slender Causes flow!
So All is diff’rent, and yet All is One.