The Washington times., 1922-01-29

publishers, Portland, Me. Mr..
O'Hara, we find upon investigation,
is a poet OF many moods, but always
his work has the fragrance OLA
sweet dream, and he strikes the
Tyre with grace and charm
We admire a poet who ventures
upon such difficult meter as is
used in DAWN at Lesbos" which.
too long to quote in full, begins:
Under lifting wings OF the sullen dark
ness,
Ere the East was red with the blush OF
Eos ...'. 70. o.. e.. . -
Lesbos rose, an isle in a sea of opal.
Out OF the shadow. e.
Dimly rosa and out of the dreaming
distance,
Out OF waves that woke with signing
ripple, .s. r.,
Seemed a Tyre for gods that the bending
heaven .s
Guarded in silence.
One hour and forty-two minutes
have elapsed since the above was
written, which time it took to read
Mr.. O'Eiara's book from beginning
to end. Reader, If you like real
poetry, get a copy of ."Embers,"
and do likewise. 1t will cost you,
SO the publishers inform us, 50. But
IL is worth IL!
THE hazards of our lottery pro-
duce next '"The Songs of "a
Man Who Failed" by. Henry Gin.
ton. Parkhurst, the Woodruff Press,
Lincoln, Neb. Mr.. Parkhurst's
book, at rough estimate. contains
almost as many lines of verse as
our copy of Robert Browning. but
there all resemblance cfases, II he
failed, it surely was not In the
quantity. of his output, Opposite
page Ga is a picture. Of sitting Bull.
NOW what have we? This is 1.-THE
Worlds Desire .subtitled "A
Book OF Poems. by Annie Crosby
Bunker. the Four Seas Company,
Boston, autographed by the author.
Mrs. Bunker is in serious VEIN
THE world and all its woes lie heavy
on my heart
and so she sings of grim-visaged
War, with his front all wrinkled, in
poems dedicated to Belgium,
France, and England, with finally
a vision of peace and the universal
brotherhood of man. Most of her
poems are Of the great war, voicing
the emotions, aspirations, and ideals
of the years of strife and tumult,
but in others she forecasts an era
of understanding among the peoples
when the elangor of arms shall give
way to the manufacture Of agricul.
tural implements. We, too, have
been reading the news of the Con.
ference for the Limitation of Arma.
ment..
WITH "Commemoration and Other
Verses" published by the Yale
University Press, we are once more
upon the university campus, this
time in company with Thomas
Dwight Goodell, late professor Of
Greek in Yale University.
Prof. Goodell's poems reveal the
hand of the classic scholar. and
also stamp him as one who pos.
sesses an admirable style of English
composition. Cameo-like in it's
clarity is the sonnet, 1.-TWO Poets"
(Alice Freeman Palmer and Rupert
Brooke), a fine example of polished
workmanship in difficult and rigid
PATTERN
Two poets I read together and in my
Their fragrance blended as two roses
blend,
A white and red--as flute and hautboy
The passion of the strings to a finer
art,
Till old new dreams of living and dying
| And dimly we begin to apprehend
Their mingled meanings and we dare
Thought onto where their ways draw
not apart
SEVEN poems. with a thread Of
continuity uniting them. make
up THE Beggar's Vision" by
Brookes More Tho Cornhill Com.
pany). The publishers have done
handsomely by MR. More in the
typography Of this book, and add.
tional beauty is lent by the illustra-
tions by Tracey Porter Rudd, which
are full Of imagination and the spirit
of the poems.
= MIR. More's verses hold con'sidera.
BILE of the mystic and emotional, and
tho seven lyric narratives are pre-
sumed TO possess an allegorical
Significance. For those who, like
us, have not the inclination to
| ponder over the csoteric. recourse
may be had 10 Stanley Braithwaite's
copious introduction, where In a
sympathetic essay Is set forth much
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