Poets' Corner

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 677, 31 May 1929, Page 16

Poets' Corner

SILENCE [Written for The Sun.] I am weary of all voices. Friend and fool Have come too nearly with me to that shrine Which is the secret kepi by wind and pine. Now, when the shadowy hands of dusk are cool About my eyes, shall Silence like a god Drive them with whips of starlight from his stairs . . . Only the small grass striving in its clod, Only the stream, that fragile moonlight bears Like blossoms on its breast, move in this place — All earth lies still as some beloved face Whose dreaming mouth and deepcarved eyelids make Bridges to God that lightest sound would break, Towers v/here one word would seem iconoclast. Yet, if through darkening trees you came at last, Wearing the dew of meadows on your shoon And in your eyes the blessing of the moon. I think it would be well. I think our greeting Would be as quiet as two rivers meeting, Which, drawn together, sparkling up in foam, Slide into one bright seeking; and our home Should be the furthest longing of pale seas. Beyond the purple caverns of th& trees. 0 ROBIN HYDE . Christchurch. BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FICTION “ GALLION'S REACH,” by H. M. Tomlinson. “THE BISHOP MURDER CASE ” by S. S. Van Dine. “DAINRA.” by “Ganpat.” “DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP.” by Willa Gather. ‘'HANGMAN'S HOUSE,” by Donn Byrne. "WAIF'S PROGESS,” by Isabel M. Peacocke. "QUEEN CLEOPATRA,” by Talbot Muncly. “THAIS,” by Anatolc France. NON-FICTION. “THE SON OF MAN,” by Emil Ludicig. “TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF FLYING.” by 11. Harper. “WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS,” by Frederick O'Brien. “EVOLUTION IN MODERN ART,” by Frank Rutter. “BENEATH TROPIC SEAS,”' by William Beebe. “TOLERANCE,” by Hendrik Van : Loon. “ROADS TO FREEDOM,” by Bertrand Russell. “SEA PIECES” by Edward Mac- ! Dotcell. Op. 05. j