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Bowen, Elizabeth, A World of Love
• Bowen, Elizabeth
  A World of Love
  Knopf, New York, 1954, Cloth, , First Edition, Good+ /Good
  
  

  DJ chipped on corners and at top of spine. Binding slightly cocked. Bottom edges of boards lightly soiled, otherwise clean and readable. 'Life works to dispossess the dead, to dislodge and oust them. Their places fill themselves up; later people come in; all the room is wanted. Feeling alters its course, is drawn elsewhere, or seeks renewal from other sources.'

  

GLOAMING

Skies to the West are stained with madder;
Amber light on the rare blue hills;
The sough of the pines is growing sadder;
From the meadow-lands sound the whippoorwills.
Air is sweet with the breath of clover;
Dusk is on, and the day is over.

Skies to the East are streaked with golden;
Tremulous light on the darkening pond;
Glow-worms pale, to the dark beholden;
Twitterings hush in the hedge beyond.
Air is sweet with the breath of clover;
Silver the hills where the moon climbs over.