About This Book
A collection of short lyric pieces that move between countryside and city, presenting momentary impressions and meditative reflections. The poems evoke train journeys, church bells, markets, evening walks, and domestic scenes, blending sensory description with spiritual yearning, gratitude, and quiet grieving. Recurring themes include memory and absence, music and classical thought, the consolation of nature, and the awareness of mortality and cultural change. Voice alternates between intimate prayer, ironic prophecy, and philosophical meditation, assembling brief vignettes that emphasize mood and interior perception over plot.
About the Author
You May Also Like
6 picks
"England and Yesterday": A Book of Short Poems
by Louise Imogen Guiney
"Excelsior"
by Bret Harte
"Horse Sense" in Verses Tense
by Walt Mason
"I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919
by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
"Smiles": A Book of Recitations for Girls
by Alice Lewis Richards
"Soitto on suruista tehty" / Historiallisia runoelmia: I. Pilatus. II. Piispa Tuomas.
by Antti Mäkinen