Richard Francis Burton 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. In Sleep
  NOT drowsihood and dreams and mere idless,
  Nor yet the blessedness of strength regained,
  Alone are in what men call sleep. The past,
  My unsuspected soul, my parentsâ?? voice,
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• 3. 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:
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• 4. An Unpraised Picture
  I SAW a picture once by Angelo.
  â??Unfinished,â? said the critic; â??done in youth;â?
  And that was all, no thought of praise, forsooth!
  He was informed, and doubtless it was so.
  ...
• 5. 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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• 6. 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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• 7. The Polar Quest
  UNCONQUERABLY, men venture on the quest
  And seek an ocean amplitude unsailed,
  Cold, virgin, awful. Scorning ease and rest,
  And heedless of the heroes who have failed,
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• 8. Love Is Strong
  A VIEWLESS thing is the wind,
  But its strength is mightier far
  Than a phalanxed host in battle line,
  Than the limbs of a Samson are.
  ...
• 9. Extras
  THE CROCUSES in the Square
  Lend a winsome touch to the May;
  The clouds are vanished away,
  The weather is bland and fair;
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