This Dark Will Lighten: Selected Poems 1923-41

Ex-school library "Reefton District High School". "1945" rubber date stamp on front endpaper. Library stamps and markings. Inner margins of covers trimmed, with spine covered with green cloth tape. Complete, with library markins confined to the covers and the endpapers. A good reading copy. ; [x], xxxvii, [2] pages. Printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 211 x 135mm. New Zealand poet. Poetry. "Shakespeare Milton Keats are dead / Donne lies in a lowly bed [. . .] Housman neither knows nor cares / how 'this heavy world' now fares [. . .] They are gone and I am here / stoutly bringing up the rear // Where they went with limber ease / toil I on with bloody knees // Though my voice is cracked and harsh / stoutly in the rear I march [. . .]" - from the poem "Song of Allegiance", page xv. ; 8vo

Product Info

Publisher: The Caxton Press

Year: 1941

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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