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A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Anarchy Conformity Philosophy

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

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Atheism God Religion Science

And starward drifts the stricken world,Lone in unalterable gloomDead, with a universe for tomb,Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Apocalypse Armageddon Darkness Death

The candle glimmers but an hour. The nightLooms in its ancient hunger. Would you knowThe tragedy of human love and need?Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Death Time Transiency

Be sure that head and heart were laidIn wisdom down, content to die.Be sure he faced the Starless SkyUnduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.(“The Passing of Bierce”)

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Ambrose Bierce Bierce Death

Till her appointed course be run;Till on the darkness faint her breathFlown to the silent void, and DeathSit crowned upon the ashen sun.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Apocalypse Death

As a breath on glass, -As witch-fires that burn,The gods and monsters pass,Are dust, and return.(“The Face of the Skies”)

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Gods History Monsters Time

O Space and Time and stars at strife,How dreadful your infinity!Shrined by your termless trinity,How strange, how terrible, is life!(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Infinity Life Space Time

The pathway traced with blood and tears,and dust of all our father's dead,Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red,Fade to the mist of nameless years.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

~ George Sterling

George Sterling History Past Time

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

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Apocalypse Armageddon History Time Transience

Within its gates I heard the soundOf winds in cypress caverns caughtOf huddling tress that moaned, and soughtTo whisper what their roots had found.(“A Dream of Fear”)

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Cemetery Graveyard Horror Scary Supernatural Trees

Where got she her sullen mouthAnd where her swaying form?Would she live on eggs and applesWhen the blood of men is warm?(“The Young Witch”)

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Blood Horror Supernatural Witch

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

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Apocalypse Armageddon Silence Sleep

Or sit they girt by laws unknownWhereto the senses serve as bars –With fire of unrecorded starsThat light a heaven not our own?(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

~ George Sterling

George Sterling Alien Stars Universe
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