Poet’s Corner

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 43, 13 May 1927, Page 10

Poet’s Corner

S.S. TAHITI (Written for THE SUN.) They’ve played the last tune, and the laughter dies As sudden as a wind that sinks at night. If only they would let the last ropes go And set her sailing outward on her flight. (The white ship that has carried love away And brought love laughing home, this many a day). Thank God for ships—that cut the thread of loveSo sharply, aye, that do the work so well. A million rolling miles, relentless, blue .... It’s easier to climb the stairs from hell And clasp your lover, than to bid him hear Your heartbeats, as the white shij) leave the pier. —BETTIE RID DUE. 'Wellington. BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Books in demand at the Auckland Public Library:— NON-FICTION “MY LIFE AND TIMES,” by Jerome K. Jerome. “RIVERSIDE NIGHTS,” by A. P. Herbert and N. Playfair. “A CRICKETERS BOOK,” by N. Cardus. “THE COMMON READER,” by Virginia Woolf. “THE GARDEN OF EXPERIENCE,” by Marion Cran. “PREJUDICES,” fifth series, by H. L. “DISRAELI)’’ by E. T. Raymond. “LIFE OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR HENRY CAMPBELL BANNERMAN,” by J. A. Spender, “WONDERS OF THE HIMALAYAS,” by Sir Francis Younghusband. FICTION “TOMEK, THE SCULPTOR,” by Adelaide Phillpots. “THE SUN IN SPLENDOUR,” by T. Burke. “THE SACRED TREE,” by Lady Murasaki. “OMOO,” by' H. Melville. “TOM FOOL,” by F. J. Jesse. “PASSAGE TO INDIA,” by E. M. Forster. “THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA,” by Stendhal. “THE OLD BRIDGE,” by W. T. Locke. “CUCKOO IN THE NEST,” by B. Travers. “SEA HORSES by F. B. Young.