Poets' Corner

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 927, 21 March 1930, Page 16

Poets' Corner

“I AM IN LOVE” IWritlcn for The Sun.J I am in love with half-averted faces, Some seen by firelight, when the blinds are drawn On little windows, night-afraid: some guessed Vaguely, when troubled shadows meet the dawn And all her stars are loosed from Heaven’s breast. Hot one of them familiar . . . yet in each 1 find remembered ways, some friendly gleam As of love lost long since, or loved in dream. And these walk glimmering through my secret places With silent feet, with unbound shadowy hair And bosoms like cold flowers opening To the lure of lonely starlight. Faintly cling Their ghosts of passion phantom

tenderness, About me. On my eyes floats the

caress Of quiet lips, hair like a fallen wing Purple with dews from fields long known, yet strange . . . Of love the darkness could not \ wholly change. ROBIN HYDE. BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FICTION ‘TIER PRIVATES WE,” by Private 1902. “THE HIDDEN CITY,” by Philip Gibbs. “THE ROMANTICS,” by M. It. Rinehart. ‘‘HUMOROUS STORIES,” by Barry Pain. ‘‘PLUME OF THE AR.AWAS,” by Frank O. V. Acheson. . ‘‘POETS PUB,” by Erie Linklater. ‘‘THE LITTLE KAROO,” by Pauline Smith. ‘‘THE MIRROR OF KONG HO,” by Ernest Brqfnah. ‘‘MY BROTHER JONATHAN,” by F. Brett Young. ‘‘THE GOOD COMPANIONS,” by .J. B. Priestley, NON-FICTION “THE CAUSE.” by Ray Strachey. “MIDSTREAM.” by Helen Keller. "COMMANDO.” by D. Reitz. ‘‘THE CHRIST OF EVERY ROAD” by E. Stanley Jones. “RUSSIA TODAY AND YESTERDAY.” by E. J. Dillon. “WORSHIPFUL MASTERS,” by A. B. Piddington. “CANARIES SOMETIMES SING,” by F. Lonsdale. “SLAVERY,” by Kathleen Simon. “GALLIPOLI MEMORIES,” by Compton Mackenzie. “LAZARUS LAUGHED,” by Eugene O'Neill.