Quotes by : George Sterling

Till her appointed course be run;Till on the darkness faint her breathFlown to the silent void, and DeathSit....

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

What silence rules the ghostly hoursThat guard the close of human sleep!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)....

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

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....

Within its gates I heard the soundOf winds in cypress caverns caughtOf huddling tress that moaned, and....

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

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.