Poets Corner

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 583, 8 February 1929, Page 14

Poets Corner

WINDY MOONLIGHT f Written for The Sun.] The moon is afloat in an empty sky, Blue and pallid and chill and dry. It ought to have been a fairies' night. With mushroom rings, and the dewfall light; But the wide cold wind that followed the moon Would scatter the w fairies, cap and shoon. It has swept the clouds to the world’s white edge. It ripples with silver the stiff dark hedge, It sends grey shivers along the grass Where racing shadows like phantoms pass, It strews the dead leaves thick ort the ground, And fills the air with a hollow sound. Nothing can hide from the wind to-night; For the world is drenched in the moon’s cold light. Everything tosses and shivers and sighs, The last late blossom before it flies; A rainless, comfortless, steel-edged gale From a sky all sapphire and silver pale. ALICE A. KENNY. Paeroa, THE FIDDLE (Written for THE SUN) I looked at the long brown fiddle in the twilight , Touched its satin body and felt it tremble under me. In its dark heart rainbows of sound lit and quivered. Crying for release: But I had not the key. Mutely in the silence in the long body of the fiddle The dark soft fires of music, pleading . despairingly lay. My passionate, clumsy fingers took the thin boio, and dropped it: For I had not the key—and blindly turned away. ARON BIRT. Milford. BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY NON-FICTION “A PLAYGOER’S WANDERINGS,” by H. M. Walbrook. -THE WORLD’S WORKERS,” by Harry Graham. ‘•LETTERS FROM A FLYING OFFICER,” by R. S. Wortley. -HOW TO ENJOY HEALTH,” by C. Lillington and Norah Hill. “EUTYCHUS, OR THE FUTURE OF THE PULPIT,” by Winifred Holtby. ‘■FIFTY YEARS IN A CHANGING WORLD,” by Sir Valentine Chirol. •'DISRAELI,” by Andre Maurois. “ STRAP-HANGERS,” by Arnold Palmer. ‘•HONE-BUBBLE AND CO,” by A. P. Herbert. ‘‘THE GENTLE ART OF TRAMPING,” by Stephen Graham. FICTION ‘■THE TRANSGRESSOR,” by Anthony Richardson. ‘‘THE LOVERS OF THE MARKET PLACE,” by Richard Dehan. “DOMBEY AND SON,” by Charles Dickens. ‘‘THE DEFEATED,” by Ludwig Lewisohn. “THE FINANCIER,” by Theodore Dreiser. “SHAKEN BY THE WIND,” by Ray Strachey. “THE BELATED RECKONING," by Phyllis Bottome. “BRASS POT AND CLAY,” by M. J. Stuart. “THE SLYPE,” by Russell Thorndike.

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