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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Sonnet Xvi. To Kosciusko
 by John Keats

Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
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