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A BOOK of dignified and melodious poems, in which it is interesting to observe the natural history touches—the child's poetic vision is compared to that of some under-water larval creature, glimpsing the sky, seeing “crooked tops to the tall, straight trees”; the full waves of the floral tide in a southern April, breaking on the hill “with white narcissus for their foam,” are contrasted with the shyer coming in the north, with “less of fire and more of dew,” and yet with its own exuberance, for bluebells thick in budding woods Stretch pool on pool from tree to tree, All heaven in their dew-drenched floods Of blue that mock your Midland sea.
Anniversaries and Other Poems.
By Leonard Huxley. Pp. x + 82. (London: John Murray, 1920.) 5s. net.
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Anniversaries and Other Poems . Nature 107, 136 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107136b0
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