George Barker Heart 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.
    As it has for so long
    come wind and all weather
    the house glimmers among
    the mists of a little
    ...
  • 3.
    I looked into my heart to write
    And found a desert there.
    But when I looked again I heard
    Howling and proud in every word
    ...
  • 4.
    To the memory of my father

    At Thurgarton Church the sun
    burns the winter clouds over
    ...
  • 5.
    Against the eagled
    Hemisphere
    I lean my eager
    Editorial ear
    ...
Total 5 Heart 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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