Richard Francis Burton Heart Poems

• 1. Black Sheep
  FROM their folded mates they wander far,
  Their ways seem harsh and wild:
  They follow the beck of a baleful star,
  Their paths are dream-beguiled.
  ...
• 2. The First Song
  A POET writ a song of May
  That checked his breath awhile;
  He kept it for a summer day,
  Then spake with half a smile:
  ...
• 3. On A Ferry Boat
  THE RIVER widens to a pathless sea
  Beneath the rain and mist and sullen skies.
  Look out the window; â??t is a gray emprise,
  This piloting of massed humanity
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• 4. The Forefather
  HERE at the country inn,
  I lie in my quiet bed,
  And the ardent onrush of armies
  Throbs and throbs in my head.
  ...

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