George Sterling

thumb| George Sterling (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) was an American poet and playwright, and a proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Quotes And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. "To Science", in Howard Willard Cook, ed., Our Poets of Today (New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1919), p. 285 Where got she her sullen mouth    And where her swaying form? Would she live on eggs and apples    When the blood of men is warm? "The Young Witch—1698", in The Century Magazine, vol. 106 no. 4 (August 1923), p. 589 The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems (1903) And starward drifts the stricken world,    Lone in unalterable gloom,    Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. "The Testimony of the Suns" A Wine of Wizardry and Other Poems (1909) When sunset, like a crimson throat to hell, Is cavernous. "A Wine of Wizardry" She wanders to an iceberg oriflammed With rayed, auroral guidons of the North. "A Wine of Wizardry" And Satan, yawning on his brazen seat, Fondles a screaming thing his fiends have flayed. "A Wine of Wizardry" . . . I heard the sound    Of winds in cypress-caverns caught    Of huddling trees that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. "A Dream of Fear" Sails and Mirage and Other Poems (1921) As a breath on glass,—    As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass,    Are dust, and return. "The Face of the Skies" External links Category:1869 births Category:1926 deaths Category:Poets from the United States Category:Playwrights from the United States Category:People from San Francisco Category:Suicides