The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-07
Recent hooks of Verse

Florence Earle Coates deGcates her new
book Of poeins (littl" Brown 4 Coz TO
Edmund Clerence Stsdman and publishes
II under the somewhat cryptogTaphic title
Of Mine and Thine II Is not volume
OF love lyrics. as this title would suggest
but is rather u collection Of pOetical trib-
utes to the heroes Of achievement inter-
spersed with nature poems and love verses
in which the sentiment is wholesome and
tender rather than passionate, and the
phEasing is delicate and pleasing in its
graceful simplicity. The poems are essen
TALLY modern in spirit and sincere in feeling,
II sometimes technically deficient in poetic
expression, and il they are not great. judged
by the standards Of literature. they do not
attempt 10 be. They are inspired by the
simpler emotions Of life and love and the
ardent appreciation OF those to whom they
are written Stedman, Dreyfus, Helen
Keller, Yeats even King Edward OF Eng
land and the author Of David Harum' are
included among the personalities which
have inspired her verse. while Stevenson
and Joan of Arc are honored with repeated
tributes. The closing lines of the sonnet
to Whistler and the little poem on Steven
sons burial place are indicative Of the
spirit and value Of them all. or Whistler
she has written:
When things men deem momentors arc forgot,
aurrls Viii bloom tor him that wltler not.
And deaths Inverted torch shan IAN to smother
The Hight OF genius tender and sublime.
Which with Anstcre restraint. and for all time
Painted the gentle portrait Of the Mother
And OF that lonely grave on the noun
Eins in Samoa she says
When sbau ,ve 4. ,o,, ,n,.-
Nh'n viii you sleep the very bcstl
MlHhiu and tender. dear and true-
When shan VIC ind grave for you'
They thought OF spirit as brave as light,
And they bore him W TO lonely hcizhi.
And they aid him there where he loved to be
On mountain gazing DER the sea
They thought Of a soul AHood with song
And they buried him where the summer lonz
Myriad birds his requiem sing
Ana the ccnoIng words about him ring
They though, Of love TINT ne rsd.oms
OF heart the home OF perfect dreams
and they let him there. where the worlds aspire
In the sunrise glow and the sunset NE
Catholic interest attaches 10 the little
volume Of verses written by Edith Colby
Benneld and published by Little, Brown
4 Co., under the title Of THE Place Of NY
Desire. Miss Banfeld was a niece OF Helen
Hunt Jackson III, HI, who was born in
1870 and died in 1908 at Colorado Springs
This girl poet has written a series Of APP
precative sonnets on the masters Of the
art she loved in which Keats was her morn
ing and Wordsworth her even song and the
others are honored in a sonnet in which
she writes:
Glad have drunk NJ Chhucers living spring
And I fof1o
Through new awakened meadow traced the
CLEAN
or many fertile rivers issuing
In Steiner regions have heard Inc roll
OF Millions torrent hhrmonles that sweep
Rcverbcraing chords through chnsms deep.
And In pure waters have seen ihe soul
or gentle Keats. But Shakespeare All, the sea
with iis great pulses throbbins nightly,
Bears all the commerce OF our human Kind
And touches every shore In Headlines.
trackless thoroughfare and mcasureiess
As the eternal ocean is tina, mind
There are poems Of the affections but
none Of passion In the book The love motif
is quite wanting, save az it sounds softly
In an intense devotion 10 childhood Nature |
poems are many and are W.T.. zen with a
simple sincerity that charms But most
appealing are the homesick longngs for
The Place Of My Desire. written from 1
Colorado Springs about the New England |
hnunts the writer loved Paradise Road.
Newport and Lake Winnepesaukee, where /
she spent her childhood. The poems stand I
word'f for word as she left them. unaltered /
and incomplete They are studies in verse
and reveal the students striving after the /,
ideal rather than tho finished product Of /
the artists experience. but az such have a |
personal and pathetic interest
Eva Gore-Booth has evidently started /
out with the laudabe ambition Of laying .
up treasures in verse for oil the women's 4
clubs OF the world 10 wrangle over during I
the coming cycle, She has printed little
volume OF these verses called The One
and the Many beside which Browning
In a primer, William Dlake II hincleYrarten