- 1. Southampton Bells
I
Long ago some builder thrust
Heavenward in Southampton town
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- 2. The Maid Of Naaman's Wife
That was the proud woman, Naaman's wife.
Basking at noon under the Syrian fans,
While Naaman, the leprous mighty captain,
Proud glowing flesh now silver-skinned and tainted,
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- 3. David And Jonathan
And Jonathan too had honour in his heart,
Jonathan who with an armour-bearer went
Alone by Michmash to the Philistines,
And met a spray of swords because of courage
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- 4. Burning Bush
From babyhood I have known the beauty of earth,
I learnt it, I think, in the strange months before birth,
I learnt it passing and passing by each moon
From the harvest month into my natal June.
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- 5. The Cotswold Farmers
Sometimes the ghosts forgotten go
Along the hill-top way,
And with long scythes of silver mow
Meadows of moonlit hay,
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- 6. May Garden
A shower of green gems on my apple tree
This first morning of May
Has fallen out of the night, to be
Herald of holiday -
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- 7. Persuasion
Then I asked: 'Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?'
He replied: 'All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.'
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- 8. The Fires Of God
I
Time gathers to my name;
Along the ways wheredown my feet have passed
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- 9. Habitation
High up in the sky there, now, you know,
In this May twilight, our cottage is asleep,
Tenantless, and no creature there to go
Near it but Mrs. Fry's fat cows, and sheep
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