The Evening Star

Name: The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems - The Evening Star
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lo! in the painted oriel of the West,
Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,
Like a fair lady at her casement, shines
The evening star, the star of love and rest!
And then anon she doth herself divest
Of all her radiant garments, and reclines
Behind the sombre screen of yonder pines,
With slumber and soft dreams of love oppressed.
O my beloved, my sweet Hesperus!
My morning and my evening star of love!
My best and gentlest lady! even thus,
As that fair planet in the sky above,
Dost thou retire unto thy rest at night,
And from thy darkened window fades the light.

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Chicago: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Evening Star," The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, ed. Callaway, Morgan, Jr., 1962- in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (New York: George E. Wood, 1850), Original Sources, accessed October 10, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L1VBFYUQ1B74PML.

MLA: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Evening Star." The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, edited by Callaway, Morgan, Jr., 1962-, in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, New York, George E. Wood, 1850, Original Sources. 10 Oct. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L1VBFYUQ1B74PML.

Harvard: Longfellow, HW, 'The Evening Star' in The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems, ed. . cited in 1850, The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 10 October 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L1VBFYUQ1B74PML.