John Evelyn Barlas (1860 - 1914), pseudonym Evelyn Douglas, was an English poet and political activist of the late nineteenth century. He was a member of the decadent movement in literature, as well as a revolutionary socialist in politics. Eight books of his Swinburne-influenced verse were published between 1884 and 1893, including 1885's "the Bloody Heart", 1887's "Phantasmagoria: Dream-Fugues" and 1889's "Love Sonnets". Wikipedia
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High up on mountain summits, that emerge Above the reign of storm, where the snow sleeps,-- Of the unquiet distant ocean-deeps At the sky's edge of shining stars and surge? www.sonnets.org/love-sonnets.htm
...John Barlas (1860-1914) Love Sonnets (complete sequence) Oblivion Beauty's Anadems The Cat-Lady Terrible Love Oblivion Oblivion! is it not one name of death... www.sonnets.org/barlas.htm