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The Poetical Works of George Barlow

In Ten [Eleven] Volumes
Barlow, George

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Vol. I
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Vol. II A LIFE'S LOVE
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Vol. III
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Vol. IV
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Vol. V: LOVED BEYOND WORDS
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Vol VI: THE PAGEANT OF LIFE
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Vol VII: FROM DAWN TO SUNSET
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Vol. VIII
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Vol. IX
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Vol. X
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SONNETS (1870-1882)
  
ENGLAND AND PALESTINE
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NINETEENTH CENTURY SONNETS
  
PRIESTS AND POETS
  
“IN A STRANGE DREAM”
  
A DEATH-SONG
  
TO THE SPIRIT OF BEAUTY
  
A HYMN
  
AN ADJURATION
  
MAN'S OVERTHROW
  
THE PERSONAL GOD
  
TO THE UNKNOWN FATHER OF JESUS
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MAY: AN EPISODE
  
A DAY AND A NIGHT IN ROME
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TO S. THORNE
  
A MAN'S VENGEANCE
  
THE GOSPEL OF SCIENCE
  
AN ASPIRATION
  
ARTISTIC LOVE
  
A CONTRAST
  
A MONTH
  
“THE RED ROSE HATH ITS SPLENDOUR”
  
SUFFERING
  
FLOWER-FRAGRANCE
  
ACTING
  
LONDON IN NOVEMBER
  
THE SUDDEN GLANCES
  
“IN THE GLAD PSALMS”
  
ANGEL-VISION
  
THE CONQUEST OF DEATH
  
GOD'S DIRECT VOICE
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TWO SONNETS
  
TO ARTHUR HERVEY
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TWO SONNETS
  
ON THE RUMOURED RESIGNATION OF LORD SALISBURY
  
WAR AND PEACE
  
“MELODRAMATIC, OVER-SWEET.”— A Critic.
  
“THE GREATER NEEDS THE LESS”
  
TO PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON
  
“HEROD” AND “ULYSSES”
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TWO SONNETS
  
NEMESIS
  
A CORONATION POEM
  
“NOT BY THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD”
  
THE INDELIBLE STAIN
  
“THIS EMPIRE'S CORONATION ROBES”
  
“THIS THOUGHT”
  
THE ANGLO-JAPANESE TREATY
  
KRITZINGER
  
THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, AND ITS FRUITS
  
“BEWARE!”
  
VICTOR HUGO'S CENTENARY
  
THE CENTENARY OF ALEXANDRE DUMAS PÈRE
  
IRELAND
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SONNETS (1902)
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SONNET I “HEROES HOMERIC”
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SONNET II THE EDUCATION BILL
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SONNET III “IN ART'S HIGH NAME”
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SONNET IV RE-INCARNATE ENEMIES
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SONNET V “PALE TIME IS NOUGHT”
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SONNET VI THE UNSEEN STRUGGLE
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SONNET VII ENGLAND AND ART
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SONNET VIII “FOR FRANCE”
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SONNET IX TO VIOLET
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SONNET X “REMEMBER”
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SONNET XI “FOR GOOD OR EVIL”
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SONNET XII Written on the evening of the Coronation Day of King Edward the Seventh.
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SONNET XIII “WOE TO THE MAN”
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SONNET XIV “IS THERE REDEMPTION?”
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SONNET XV THE SONS OF SCIENCE
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SONNET XVI CHRIST'S METHOD
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SONNET XVII UNIVERSE-SWEETNESS
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SONNET XVIII
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SONNET XIX
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SONNET XX “CONFLICTING GODS”
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SONNET XXI “THE DIVINE FEMININE”
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SONNET XXII THE VIRGIN MARY
  
“WHEN THE ROSE BECOMES INCARNATE”
  
“PERFECT SLEEP”
  
“THE ANGEL”
  
ON THE DEATH OF ÉMILE ZOLA
  
HUGO AND ZOLA
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EIGHTEEN SONNETS (1903)
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Vol. XI

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SONNET V
VICTORY

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At the General Election of January, 1910, the Unionist Party, in the face of lying and misrepresentation unprecedented in English electoral history, secured a net gain of 105 seats.

The powers of darkness shudder, as the morn
Breaks, and a newer nobler day begun
Restores to England gladness and the sun.
'Mid lies and deeds too base for aught but scorn
Rulers 'mid lies and base devices born
Feel death upon them, see their brief reign done,
And watch the swift sands through the hour-glass run,
Crime-smeared, by foul dissensions racked and torn.
The traitors slowly pass into the night
With furtive wolf-like gaze and shackled hands,
While England in the golden sunlight stands,
Her eyes made glorious with imperial light,
And one wild trumpet-blast proclaims her free
From dawn to sunset and from sea to sea.
February 6, 1910.
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