Poets ’ Corner

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 317, 30 March 1928, Page 14

Poets ’ Corner

SOMEBODY PASSED ME (Written for THE SUN.) Somebody passed me on the stair f The last of the twilight lingered there; A ghostly rustle of old brocade Somebody’s skirts as they passed me made. A flutter of sound on the empty air . . . Somebody passed me. Somebody passed me in the street, 1 heard the whisper of hurried feet, The mincing step of a high-heeled shoe (The very pavement seemed listening too), And lo! in my nostrils a fragrance sweet . . . Somebody passed me. 1 have questioned the empty air. Lain in wait on the twilight stair. Paused in the street with a dark unrest, But never a glimpse of that fleeting guest . . . In the high-heeled shoes of an oldworld wear . . . Somebody passed me. —WINIFRED S. TENNANT. Auckland. HEAD OF A YOUNG GIRL (Written for THE SUN) Black hair so sleekly “Etoned” that the light is tangled Within its depths like swimmers in a sea: A cigarette between red lips that garble Shrill lines of syncopated melody: Dark brows that slope toward faint mocking corners, A head that rolls to jazz’s frenzied beat — And eyes that should be a Madonna’s mantle For soft-limbed babes unborn , but yet most sweet. —UNA CURRIE. Auckland. SHYNESS (Written for THE SUN.) This is the honey in my comb of days — He knows my lost, unfriendly little ways. He’ll send the angels back that wait on Him, And fescue me from gracious cherubim. —EILEEN DUGGAN. Wellington. BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FICTION “EAST OF MANSION HOUSE,” by Thomas Burke. “THE UN BURIED DEAD,” by Stephen McKenna. “THE RED TREE BLOSSOMED, 3 ‘ by Ernest Raymond. “SPRING DARKNESS,” by John Metcalfe. “BLACK GALLANTRYby V. Gielgud. “THE VISION SPLENDID,” by D. K. Broster and G. W. Taylor. “THE STRANGE VANGUARD,” by A. Bennett. “THE SINGING CAPTIVE bq E. B. C. Jones. “THE EARTHEN LOT,” by Brada Field. “THE POOR GENTLEMAN,” by lan Hay. NON-FICTION “PREJUDICES: SIXTH SERIES,” by H. L. Mencken. “THE LETTERS OF GERTRUDE BELL. “HORTUS VITAE.” by Vernon Lee. “ADVENTURES OF A WANDERER” by G. W. Powell. “SOME GREAT ENGLISH NOVELS ” by O. Williams. “IF,” by Lord Dunsany. “ANIMAL MIND.” by Frances Pitt. “THE CAUSEWAY OF CAPITAL AND LABOUR,“ by S. E. Brent. “MODERN ENGLISH PLAYWRIGHTS,” by J. W. Cun lifff “A GALLANT COMPANY ” by J. Fortescue.