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Love-Songs

By George Barlow

Barlow, George

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DAISY'S THIMBLE.

TO THE UNIVERSE GOD.

THE LAST FAREWELL.

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I.

I. AN EARTH-SONG.

II.

II. A BRIDAL-CHANT.

III.

III. THE EMIGRANT'S SONG.

IV.

IV. THE DEAD MEN'S SONG.

V.

V. THE WIFE'S RETURN.

VI.

VI. GOOD-NIGHT.

VII.

VII. BEYOND THE YEARS!

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BRUISED BLOSSOMS.

THE LILY AND THE ROSE.

THE BATTLE OF FLOWERS.

CRIMSON AND MANY FLOWERS.

A WOMAN'S BLOOM.

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THOSE SUMMER NIGHTS.

SWEET FANCY'S HAND.

A FAR-OFF HILL.

WITH WHITER PLUMES.

LOVE AND HONOUR.

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THE MAGIC OF MEMORY.

I.

II.

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THIS AFTERNOON.

LOVE'S CRUELTY.

AND SHALL I SEE YOU?

WHERE THOU ART, SWEET.

EVEN AS THE DOVE.

ODE TO ENGLAND.

TO THEE, SWEET.

A FAREWELL TO POETRY.

TO ELLA DIETZ: POET AND ACTRESS.

TO KATHLEEN GORDON, GIRL-GENIUS.

GOD AND BEAUTY.

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I.

I. THE CHRISTS OF THE AGES.

II.

II. THE CRUCIFIXION OF MANHOOD.

III.

III. THE CRUCIFIXION OF WOMANHOOD.

SO HE CEASED TO BELIEVE IN MAN.

SO HE ENTERED THE CHURCH OF ROME.

CHRIST AND WOMAN.

TO GERTRUDE ENTERING A CONVENT.

A WHITE ROSE IN NOVEMBER.

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LOVE'S CRUELTY.

Sweet, every meeting-time may be our last!
We stand upon time's beach, and, after, one
May launch a boat with cunning keel to run
Against the sidelong pressure of the blast,
With curved resistance of a reedlike mast,
Into the hollows of the western sun—
Time finished, red eternity begun,
Our love may be but as a rosebud past,
Crying in some disastrous nook of garden
After the heels of summer, who declares,
Invincible and destitute of pardon,
His lips are languid for Australian airs,—
And, with love's endless cruelty, prepares
The alternate hemisphere to inflame and harden.