Poets’ Corner

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 163, 30 September 1927, Page 12

Poets’ Corner

TREES (Written for THE SUN.) Trees, they're funny things — They hurts somehow: I’ve seen a whole sky caught In one black hough. Pines I've loved best. You hears the sea. All swelling soft and hoarse, In just one tree. * They stands all black and tall, With stars between Their strong dark boughs some nights. I know, I’ve seen. I’ve watched trees drag and droop; Seems they wasn’t meant For towns —all crying ’gainst The sky, and bent. That hurt a bit, but pines — They stirs me deep, That soft, lost roar of theirs: They never sleep. They hurts somehow, do trees. I’ve loved, them all. Hut pines, they twists my heart With their wild call. —T.R.1.8. Auckland. NEAR .A GROWING TOWN (Written for THE SUN.) Oh, I shall walk among these fields While evening shakes with stars, And drink the cup that Beauty yields In her bright avatars. And I shall pluck the wildrose sweet That blooms here in the grass. And tramp this way my wandering feet Must some day cease to pass. For stars and wind and grass will fade Like the first wreath Helen wore, And soon I'll crumble and be laid Where Beauty cries no more. And some far day this magic gloom Will gild a city street, And the. rose of steel, black-pet ailed, bloom. Where now the night is sweet. A. R. D. FAIKBURN. THE SOUTHERN LIGHTS (Written for THE SUN.) I was aslee/p. in a deep, deep sleeping, I did not see them, wavering up and down; But I stirred on my pillow, and I knew in my dreaming That Beauty was above me. like a cro iv n. There's loveliness in sleeping, there’s loveliness in waking . Spring brings the daodil in a gold gown , Summer brings the rose, but Winter brings the fairy lights And hangs them in the heavens, like a crown. HELENA J. HENDERSON BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY NON-FICTION ■MOBERLY BELT AND HIS TIMES" by E. Harcourt Kitchin. “THE LOOKOUT MAN ” by David Bone. •‘GARDEN OF EXPERIENCE “ by Marian Gran. Pu Susshstr.

“THE GENESIS OF THE WAR" by Rt. Hon. H. H. Asauith. “TOLERANCE" by Hendrik van Loon. “PARIS NIGHTS ” by Arnold Bennett. “THE GHOSTS OF PICCADILLY" by G. S. Street. “A GALLERY" by Philip Guedalle. "SHAKIfSPEAREAN TRAGEDY" by A. C » Bradbury. FICTION '‘THE GOODNATURED LADY" by J. E. Buckrosc. “CATRIONA" by R. L. Stevenson. “THE SOWER OF THE WIND' by Richard Dchan. “ONCE ON A TIMEV’ by A. A. Milne. -THE JOYOUS CONSPIRATOR ” by George Gibbs. “BLISS" by Katharine Mansfield. ’ DUE RECKONING" by Stephen McKenna. “THE KISS" by Avion Tchehov. “NOSTROMO" by Joseph Conrad.. “STALKY AND CO." by Rudyard Kip-