George Barker Hear Poems

  • 1.
    O Child beside the Waterfall
    what songs without a word
    rise from those waters like the call
    only a heart has heard-
    ...
  • 2.
    January jumps about
    in the frying pan
    trying to heat
    his frozen feet
    ...
  • 3.
    Not less light shall the gold and the green lie
    On the cyclonic curl and diamonded eye, than
    Love lay yesterday on the breast like a beast.
    Not less light shall God tread my maze of nerve
    ...
  • 4.
    The words are always as
    strange and dead as those
    fragments and oddments that
    the wave casts up on the shore:
    ...
  • 5.
    To the memory of my father

    At Thurgarton Church the sun
    burns the winter clouds over
    ...
  • 6.
    Against the eagled
    Hemisphere
    I lean my eager
    Editorial ear
    ...
Total 6 Hear Poems by George Barker

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jerome kohn: am seraching for a poem by George Barker with these verses:
I have been too long away from my domain
Too much pursued my own will-o-the whips
Against a stranger pillow
To think that destinations conver
the running sore of separation.


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Alfred Lord Tennyson Poem
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: Part 069
 by Alfred Lord Tennyson

I dream'd there would be Spring no more,
That Nature's ancient power was lost:
The streets were black with smoke and frost,
They chatter'd trifles at the door:

I wander'd from the noisy town,
I found a wood with thorny boughs:
I took the thorns to bind my brows,
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