Biography of 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.
Poem of the day
Her Name Liberty
by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I thought to do a deed of chivalry,
An act of worth, which haply in her sight
Who was my mistress should recorded be
And of the nations. And, when thus the fight
Faltered and men once bold with faces white
Turned this and that way in excuse to flee,
I only stood, and by the foeman's might
Was overborne and mangled cruelly.
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