Quotes by : George Sterling

Or sit they girt by laws unknownWhereto the senses serve as bars –With fire of unrecorded starsThat....

The pathway traced with blood and tears,and dust of all our father's dead,Whose backward footsteps, wandering,....

O Space and Time and stars at strife,How dreadful your infinity!Shrined by your termless trinity,How....

As a breath on glass, -As witch-fires that burn,The gods and monsters pass,Are dust, and return.(“The....

Where got she her sullen mouthAnd where her swaying form?Would she live on eggs and applesWhen the blood....

Be sure that head and heart were laidIn wisdom down, content to die.Be sure he faced the Starless SkyUnduped,....

And starward drifts the stricken world,Lone in unalterable gloomDead, with a universe for tomb,Dark,....

The candle glimmers but an hour. The nightLooms in its ancient hunger. Would you knowThe tragedy of human....

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.("Ephemera")....

And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.("To Science")