Rhymes A La Mode – Andrew Lang (1887)

S$72.00

Rhymes A La Mode – Andrew Lang (1887)

S$72.00

Title: Rhymes A La Mode
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1887.
Condition: Hardcover, small green cloth. In good condition, some yellowing, but tightly bound.

Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.

A nice little collection of poems!

Excerpt:

My Love dwelt in a Northern land.
A grey tower in a forest green
Was hers, and far on either hand
The long wash of the waves was seen,
And leagues on leagues of yellow sand,
The woven forest boughs between!

And through the silver Northern night
The sunset slowly died away,
And herds of strange deer, lily-white,
Stole forth among the branches grey;
About the coming of the light,
They fled like ghosts before the day!

I know not if the forest green
Still girdles round that castle grey;
I know not if the boughs between
The white deer vanish ere the day;
Above my Love the grass is green,
My heart is colder than the clay!