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Poems and Sonnets

By George Barlow

Barlow, George

PSYCHE AND MERCURY, ONE OF RAPHAEL'S FRESCOES.

THE SONG OF THE BLIND POET.

BLOWN BUBBLES.

THE ECSTACY OF THE HAIR.

ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

MY OWN DART.

POETRY.

MISS THACKERAY'S “REINE.”

ABSTRACT TO CONCRETE.

KATE AT THE WINDOW, “GRIFFITH GAUNT.”

WHAT THE SONNET NEEDS.

A VISION.

CROWNS.

THE POET'S CROWN.

DEATH'S LIPS AND PALMS.

LOVES.

THE POET.

WREATHS.

A VISION OF THE PAST.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE.

A CONTEMPLATED VOYAGE.

SWEET!

THE SUPERNAL LOVELINESS.

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THE SPARROW AND THE THRUSH.

“AND KEEP OUR SOULS IN ONE ETERNAL PANT.”

II.

HARMONIA AND THE HANDMAIDEN.

MY FIRST PROOF-SHEETS.

PYGMALION'S DOOM REVERSED.

THE LOVE-NOTES.

THE HANDMAIDEN WITH THE GREEN GREEN EYES.

WHAT SHALL I DO?

THOU COULDST NOT WATCH WITH ME.

A LOVER'S APOLOGY FOR KISSING HIS MISTRESS' HANDWRITING.

A KISS.

WHAT A SMILE CAN DO.

A QUESTION.

THE HOT CLEAR WEATHER.

GONE IS THE BEAUTY.

THE ROSE.

VERILY THEY HAVE THEIR REWARD.

SURELY TO DIE IS GOOD!

SUNSET OVER THE MULGRAVE WOODS.

BEAUTY WITH GREEN EYES.

THE WHOLE NIGHT LONG.

A DREAM OF ROSES.

WHEN WE ARE LEFT ALONE!

AS ROSES ARE TO JUNE.

THE SONG OF THE LONELY SOUL.

VICTOR HUGO INSIDE PARIS.

WHEN SUNS ARE BRIGHT.

AH, WELL-A-DAY!

GOOD-NIGHT!

MY LOVE.

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

THE BRIGAND'S LETTER.

A LITANY

HYMN

RELIGIONISTS.

THE AGONY OF THE AGE.

A NINETEENTH-CENTURY “EPITHALAMION.”

PANTHEISTIC EFFUSIONS.

WHAT THE DEAD MAN SAW.

II.

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BEAUTY WITH GREEN EYES.

Beauty with green eyes,
Beauty with grey,
Soft as the sunrise,
Bright as the day,
Be to me kind skies,
Hearken, I pray;

Beauty with grey eyes,
Beauty with brown,
Lo! what a depth lies,
Deep—deep down—
You must be very wise!
No—don't frown;

Beauty with brown eyes,
Beauty with green,
Just as each shade dies,
My sighs, Queen,
Follow, and sorrow flies
Colours between!