Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FIRST CYCLE OF LOVE POEMS: 5, by GEORGE BARKER


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First Line: My joy, my jockey, my gabriel
Last Line: At night will sleep and keep by me.
Subject(s): God


My joy, my jockey, my Gabriel
Who bares his horns above my sleep
Is sleeping now. And I shall keep him
In valley and on pinnacle
And marvellous in my tabernacle.

My peace is where his shoulder holds
My clouds among his skies of face;
His plenty is my peace, my peace.
And like a serpent by a boulder
His shade I rest in glory coiled.

Time will divide us, and the sea
Wring its sad hands all day between;
The autumn bring a change of scene.
But always and for ever he
At night will sleep and keep by me.




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