George Henry Boker

Poems (7)

• A Ballad of Sir John Franklin

  O, whither sail you, Sir John Franklin? / Cried a whaler in Baffin’s Bay. …

• Dirge for a Soldier

  Close his eyes; his work is done! / What to him is friend or foeman, …

• Prince Adeb

  In Sana, O, in Sana, God, the Lord, / Was very kind and merciful to me! …

• The Black Regiment

  [May 27, 1863] / DARK as the clouds of even, …

• The Ferry

  There was a gay maiden lived down by the mill,— / Ferry me over the ferry,— …

• To England

  Lear and Cordelia! ’t was an ancient tale / Before thy Shakespeare gave it deathless fame: …

• To My Lady

  I / i ’ll call thy frown a headsman, passing grim, …