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Talk
The Undying
The Native Country

PART III

Stone Trees
It was the Lovely Moon
The Hounds
Hector
Listening
Stones
The Enemies
The Silvery One
The Flute
Stars
Ten O'clock and Four O'clock
The Yew
November Skies
Delight
Change
Sleeping Sea
The Weaver of Magic
The Darksome Nightingale
Under the Linden Branches
Strife
Foreboding
Discovery
More than Sweet
The Brightness
The Holy Mountains
Rapture
Music Comes
The Idiot
The Mouse
Happiness
Comfortable Light
Hallo!
Fear
Waking
The Fall
Stay!
Shadows
Walking at Eve
The Physician
Vision and Echo
Revisitation
Unpardoned
Some Hurt Thing
The Waits
In the Lane
The Last Time
You that Were
"The Light that Never was on Sea or Land"
At Evening's Hush
Happy Death
Wisdom and a Mother
The Thrush Sings
To My Mother
The Unuttered
Fair Eve
The Snare
O Hide Me in Thy Love
Prayer to my Lord
The Tree
Earth to Earth
On a Piece of Silver
The Escape
Wonder
Lambourn Town
The Lamp
Who is it that Answers?
Waiting
Absence
Sleep
Your Shadow
The Full Tide
Hands
The Night Watch
The Haunted Shadow
Alone and Cold
Inevitable Change
Loneliness
I heard a Voice upon the Window beat
First Love
The Call
The Shade
Happy is England Now
The Stars in their Courses
Sweet England
Presage of Victory
The Return
English Hills
Homecoming
England's Enemy
From Piccadilly in August
Evening Beauty: Blackfriars
Sailing of the _Glory_
At the Dock
"The Men who loved the Cause that Never Dies"

PART I

THE EVENING SKY

Rose-bosom'd and rose-limb'd
With eyes of dazzling bright
Shakes Venus mid the twined boughs of the night;
Rose-limb'd, soft-stepping
From low bough to bough
Shaking the wide-hung starry fruitage--dimmed
Its bloom of snow
By that sole planetary glow.

Venus, avers the astronomer,
Not thus idly dancing goes
Flushing the eternal orchard with wild rose.
She through ether burns
Outpacing planetary earth,
And ere two years triumphantly returns,
And again wave-like swelling flows,
And again her flashing apparition comes and goes.

This we have not seen,
No heavenly courses set,
No flight unpausing through a void serene:
But when eve clears,
Arises Venus as she first uprose
Stepping the shaken boughs among,
And in her bosom glows
The warm light hidden in sunny snows.

She shakes the clustered stars
Lightly, as she goes
Amid the unseen branches of the night,
Rose-limb'd, rose-bosom'd bright.
She leaps: