Poets' Corner

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 595, 22 February 1929, Page 14

Poets' Corner

RETURN TO LONDON To my friends Loui and Douglas. (Written for The Sun.) Forgive me if I blasphemed, imperial place. It was winter when I came, and there were only a few leaves like commas on the trees; therefore among your splendours I was lonely and in spite of these I was glad to leave the gloomy Thames behind; I was a child, born where gardens, murmuring with contrapuntal foliage, sunward swell; or skies are washed with lilac in the evening aquarelle. But now you have put on summer as your king puts on his robe and crown. Palaces like clouds , and behind them clouds like palaces, are seen on your crimson-lined horizon that gold-shrouds your gardens green. You are something more than a catafalque of kings, dear home of emperors. Murmurs of flowers, beautiful voices that disturb my rest, whisper far hills; but here are crowns and towers and these are best. GEOFFREY DE MONTALK. Kensington Gardens, 10 p.m. BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FICTION “ALF'S CARPETby W. A. Darlington. "THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1925, AMERICAN:' “BLACK VALLEYby Hugo Wast. "AN UNTITLED STORY," by Bonn Byrne. “THE GREAT ROXHYTHE,” by G. lleyer. '‘PILGRIMS OF ADVERSITYby W. Me Fee. “SEVEN FOR A SECRET" by Mary Webb. "THE GENIUSby Theodore Dreiser. "THE AMBASSADORSby Henry James. “CROCK OF GOLD,’’ by James Stephens. NON-FICTION “THE REDISCOVERY OF SCOTLAND," by G. M. Thomson. "THE SUN. THE STARS, AND THE UNIVERSE,” by W. M. Smart. “GOLDEN GREEN,’’ by Bart Kennedy. "ELIZABETH AND ESSEX," by Lytton Strachey.

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