VOLUME OF VERSE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21882, 18 August 1934, Page 9 (Supplement)

VOLUME OF VERSE

A slender volume of verse from the pen of Miss Sylvia Lynd is inappositely entitled " The Enemies," (Dent) which, by the way, is not the best poem in tho collection. Others that are more pleasing are " A Fireside Conversation," wherein tho woqd cries out in the fire " with a thin, sail cry," " The Strange Ship " and " The Honeying of tho Loom." " The Compleat Angler " has all the dreamy smoothness of the watery river-world it portrays; but the following extract, which savours considerably of Robert Bridges, deserves quotation:— Surely the loom is honeyed that has made For tho hill's coat this intricate brocade Of the small clover, rose and elder white, Where the wild bees go singing with delight, Of trefoil, milfoil, brighteve, centaury. And heartsease with its purple nectary, Of self-heal, feverfew, liawkweed and basil, Bedstraw and thyme and many a grassy tassel, Milkwort, campanula and tormentil— Surely the loom ifl honeyed on the hill.