Poets' Corner

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 399, 6 July 1928, Page 14

Poets ' Corner

GALLEONS [Written for The San.) Yours was no store of gleaming silks, Of yellow birds and Indian spice: Your ships were loaded with a freight Of purely English merchandise — Such quiet English hopes and dreams As slowly widen into dower When pale and mellow sunshine falls Against the high Cathedral tower; And English youth that wakens when Spring runs barefoot through Arden; all England’s sweet brooks of laughter, and Her stillnesses where blackbirds call. So that when tropic nights have seen Your small and steadfast pennants pass. Their silken winds have suddenly known The little scents of English grass . . . Such cargo yours as set the world To whispering Devon fairytales And loosened in the pheenix woods The songs of English nightingales. ROBIN HYDE. W ellington. TRIOLET (Written for THE SUN.) When memory swoo&s "blackly down, Do yon remember—then forget? Remembrance is a bitter crown When memory swoo&s blackly down In icy waves that darkly drown All save a tortured wild regret . . . When memory swoo&s blackly down, Do you remember—then forget? —NORA STACEY. Auckland. BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FICTION “ROXANNE,” by H. de Fere Stacpoole. “THE FOUR TRAGEDIES OF MEMWORTH,” by Lord Ernest Hamilton. “TO THE LIGHTHOUSE,” by Virginia Woolfe. “FATHERS AND CHILDREN ” by Ivan Turgenev. “ZELDA MARSH,” by C. G. Naomi. “ KAI LUNG UNROLLS HIS MAT," by Ernest Bramali, “THE AGE OF REASON,” by Sir Philip Gibbs. “THE LEOPARD’S SKIN,” by M. Robertson. “THE MOON AND SIXPENCE,” by IF. Somerset Maugham. “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE” by Jane Austen, NON-FICTION “LETTERS OF GERTRUDE BELL.” “THE ART OF FLYING,” by N. MacMillan, “MEMORIES OF BOOKS AND PLACES,” by J. A. Hammerton. “MERYON,” by L. Deltiel. “SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN ” by H. Sullivan and N. Flower. “FIFTY YEARS IN A CHANGING ’WORLD,” by Sir Valentine Chirol. “THE HEART OF LONDON,” by H. V. Morton. “PORTRAITS OF THE NEW CENTURY,” by E. T. Raymond. “PRAYER AS A FORCE,” by A. Maude Royden. “IN THE NICOBAR ISLANDS,” by George Whitehead.