NEW POEMS BY MR THOMAS HARDY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 12 January 1926, Page 3

NEW POEMS BY MR THOMAS HARDY

■'HI'MAN SHOWS: !•’A!! I’ll AX TA.SIKS" Xl-■ Thomas ?.I i;-i, As great Vi'.-ton i:r: ■■■ ‘ u- . !/> h.s vi yi : .i r, has j as. published a i ■- wo*:.- ■ of more tli.in ]:>o poems, c/d AI;'.I ii: 1 mm Shows; F:i- Phantasms : S mill Trifles". which pro\ es that his go nius is still act ive and inf inter. s. life still imaliiitnl. His bill tries arr many. 1 >ul at. tin" I"' gininngs at his v> ’• • ni• * hr ts. in a poem oallril " Any l.ittir Old .'■•om:. thr simple note whirl: hrst expresses liis ideas. Any lit tlr old song Will ch> I'm- me. Trll it of joys gone long. Or joys to hr. Or friendly fairs hrst Loved to see. Newest themes I want not Oil subtle strings. And for tlirillblgs pant not That new song brings: I only need the homelier Of heart stirrings. Tin- mingled beaut' and tragedy, which are so milrli part of Mr Hanlys art. are not absent from these poems. lb 1 e\presses tnat iliuhle rinoiion powerful!' in some bins railed "Singing Lovers." We Mimic t!;. hrst and last, verses : 1 rowed : t lie dimpled I ide was at t lie t m il. And mirth and moonlight spread upon the bay: There were two singing lovers in the stern : But mine had gone away.--Whither. I sluiiun d to say ' The moon s glassed glory heaved as we lav swinging I’pmi the liiniillat ions. Shoreward, slow. The plash of pebbles joined I lie lie. its’ singing. But she of a bygone von Joined in the song not now !