The New York herald., 1922-10-15
Some Autumn
Verses
Continued from Preceding Page.


love-
The Garden of the West is the highly
imaginative piece which gives the title to
a new volume of the delicately beautiful
poetry of Miss Louise Driscoll. Filled with
human sympathy and their lines turned
with purest fancy phrased in limpid ripples.
these poems are additional riches in the
authors treasury and in that of her read
ers. Here are the opening lines of
I MET THE RAIN
i met the rain to-day in an open place,
The young ran adv nturing, she danced
as she came along.
Her dress was all of silver, she had smil-
ing face
And she sang to the dusty trees. a little
Real Property" the title Of one among
score OF free-verse poems by Harold
Monro, gives its title 10 the new collection
ci these vague formulas in which this Eng
lish writer prefers to express his emotions
The Silent Poor is least cryptic, perhaps;
the author provides two or three prose
paragraphs, or notes, to aid the careful
and thoughtful reader" to whom he makes
his offering.
'The Black Panther" the title of Mr..
Wheelock's new volume of poems, figures
the restlessness of the poets impulse: a
hundred pages are filled with the express
son of the divine fire which sometimes
almost consumes him. and always burns
hot, with a leaping flame. His lyric power
is always to be found; in this apostrophe
from The Divine Fantasy" it shines out
clearly:
Dear spark. that shinest in the solitude!
Our consciousness. that in the brotherhood
OF all carth's living creatures movest on
The shaken ramparts of Oblivion
Whose starry cry. across the darkness
hurled
Makes music In the silence of the worldi
Life. whose Isole splendor in red slaughter
spills
The blood of its own breast: in many wills
Wars on the one VIII.
In the $40 pages Of new volume of The
Modern Students Library" have been com
pressed many OF the most impor ant and
suggestive of~Browning Poems and Plays"
by Prof. Hewett Elwen Joyce of Dart
mouth. A useful and informing introduc-
ton and a reading list are provided for the
less experienced reader Of Browning
TIE t. Y. Crowell Company reissue their
one volume edition of the. Complete Poet
zeal Works of Edgar Allan Poe" in chron-
ogical arrar cement. with an introduction
by Charles w. Kent. The same publishers
issue Poems of Heroism in American
Life" edited by John II. Howard, which is
collection of poems varying in age from
several centuries to a year or two, but al,
American in theme and spirit. It is in
tended as "a revelation Of our national life
in verse form" The lyrics begin. in sub
ject with the discovery and early settle
ment of the country and ending with the
world war. The authors range from Bishop
Berkeley and Fitz-Greene Halleck to John
II. Finley and Alan Seeger. The idea of
the volume is valuable and its execution
inclusive and satisfactory.
Shoes of the Wind" is the title of a
book of new and engaging verse by Hilda
Conkling the author of Poems by Little
Girl" 1t contains what Hilda has written
in the last two years. Not less than 160
scraps and feathers of this gifted child's
fancy are included here and are touched
with the true magic wand of original
artistry. Nils Amy Lowell has called Hilda
Conkling "that ageless thing. genius, for
the moment. al least" Now where did
the child find these thoughts?
APRIL WITH YELLED ARMS
April with veiled arms
And body like swans wing,
opal and bronze in your hair.
Gold i'm your eyes.
a woman