The world's room : the collected poems of Laurence Whistler / with decorations by Rex Whistler
1949, First Edition. London : Heinemann. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #431823
Physical description; xiii, 210 pages : illustrations; 22 cm. Notes; Errata slip inserted. Contents; Foxgloves -- Rain in the summer woods -- Mountain stream -- Invalid -- Citizens of shade -- Death of Pan : a fragment -- Aquarius -- Cold pedigree -- Earth and moon -- Words -- End of a dispensation -- Quainton churchyard -- On Shotover Hill, near Oxford -- John Delafield -- Good Friday -- Sepulchre -- Easter -- Enigma -- Ghost never breathed of -- Long haunting -- Fear at the manor -- Glass chandelier -- Francis Fortescue Urquhart -- Two northern houses -- Window to movement -- In time of suspense -- Flight -- Death from exposure -- Do not ask -- Living monument -- Blood royal -- Sleeping draught -- Effect of military music -- You are listening now ... -- Yestermorrow -- It wil not last -- Quick and the dead -- Ode to the sun -- Antiphonal -- Time's fool -- Grievance -- Burning-glass -- Rollo Latimer -- Jacob Pennycuick -- Dancer in darkness -- And there, quite silently and like a toy -- Now surely, love is easy to construe -- All night her dreams roared in her ears -- To be presented with a day -- Sometimes when strolling the reflective hills -- Like the revolving towers of that storm -- Once in a hundred lives -- Quaver glance is not indicative -- To rise with groans : to explore curtained rooms -- To the stars in time of war -- River bridge -- Twilight : scent of the hay -- Crown, Bethlehem -- Encounter. Subjects; Whisler, Rex 1905-1944.
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