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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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LOVED BEYOND WORDS
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LOVED BEYOND WORDS
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LOVED BEYOND WORDS
  
LOVE'S PRAYER
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I. “LOVE ME WITH THINE EYES’
 II. 
II. “FIGHT ON”
 III. 
III. OUR VICTORY
 IV. 
IV. “ONE AGAINST MANY”
 V. 
V. SPRING MESSAGES
 VI. 
VI. THE OLD DREAM
 VII. 
VII. THY SOUL
 VIII. 
VIII. SONG
 IX. 
IX. A LOVE-SONG
 X. 
X. KNOWN, YET UNKNOWN
 XI. 
XI. MY QUEEN
 XII. 
XII. “NOW LET ME REST”
 XIII. 
XIII. SUPREME REPOSE
 XIV. 
XIV. “BE THOU HAPPY!”
 XV. 
XV. SUPREME DEVOTION
 XVI. 
XVI. THE ONLY DEATH
 XVII. 
XVII. A VISION
 XVIII. 
XVIII. A PRAYER
 XIX. 
XIX. “YET MORE SWEET”
 XX. 
XX. THE WOMAN AND THE GIRL
 XXI. 
XXI. ART AND LOVE
 XXII. 
XXII. THE POET AND THE LADY
 XXIII. 
XXIII. GOD'S YEARNING
 XXIV. 
XXIV. LOVE'S OTHER HALF
 XXV. 
XXV. A DYING POET'S LOVE
 XXVI. 
XXVI. TWO DREAMS
 XXVII. 
XXVII. “IF ONLY THOU ART THERE!”
 XXVII. 
XXVIII. “BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD”
 XXIX. 
XXIX. PRAYER
 XXX. 
XXX. “ETERNAL BOYHOOD”
 XXXI. 
XXXI. JACOB AND RACHEL
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XXXII. LOVE AND ART
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. A POET'S SOUL
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XXXIV. ‘ACROSS THE STARS”
 XXXV. 
XXXV. THE SUPREME LOVE
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI. “LOVE'S INVINCIBILITY”
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. A PRAYER FOR THE FUTURE
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. “LIFE AND DEATH”
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. THE ENDING OF LOVE'S QUEST
 XL. 
XL. “IF I HAD LOST THEE!”
 XLI. 
XLI. “THE HIGHEST GOAL”
 XLII. 
XLII. THY GIRLISH THOUGHTS
 XLIII. 
XLIII. THE VICTOR
 XLIV. 
XLIV. “THINE HIGHEST LOVE”
 XLV. 
XLV. FLOWER AND FRUIT
 XLVI. 
XLVI. “FORSAKE ME NOT”
 XLVII. 
XLVII. THY REWARD
 XLVIII. 
XLVIII. AGONY
 XLIX. 
XLIX. “UPON THE SEA!”
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L. “JOY AND TEARS”
 LI. 
LI. SONG
 LII. 
LII. GREAT AND SMALL
 LIII. 
LIII. “THE LORD WATCH BETWEEN ME AND THEE!”
 LIV. 
LIV. JEWELS
 LV. 
LV. “IF THOU WILT LOVE ME, LOVE”
 LVI. 
LVI. THY WOMANHOOD
 LVII. 
LVII. THE FRONTIER-POST
 LVIII. 
LVIII. ANOTHER YEAR
 LIX. 
LIX. “THE ARMY BEHIND THE MAN”
 LX. 
LX. LOVE'S SILENCE
 LXI. 
LXI. OUT OF SIGHT OF LAND
 LXII. 
LXII. GOD AND MAN
 LXIII. 
LXIII. MUTUAL LOVE
 LXIV. 
LXIV. CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS MINISTERS
 LXV. 
LXV. EVEN IN HEAVEN
 LXVI. 
LXVI. BEAUTY OF SOUL
 LXVII. 
LXVII. LOVE UNDREAMED-OF
 LXVIII. 
LXVIII. “THE DIVINE IN THEE”
  
AN EPITAPH
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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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Vol. XI

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XLII. THY GIRLISH THOUGHTS

A poet's purest thoughts that heavenward turn, and seaward,
Are never pure enough, sweet love, when turning theeward:
For thou dost put to scorn
By thine unconscious white pure girlhood every hour
That I have spent in dreams, and every fancied flower
In the dim mystic bardic cloudland born.
Man's purest thoughts are nought. Thy girlish thoughts are purer.—
Upon the mountain-height of dreams with footstep surer
Thou treadest. Yea, to me
Thou bringest back lost dreams that once waved plumage saintly.
And yet these shadow forth thy girlish heart but faintly:
The purest is not pure enough for thee.
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