W. SATCHELL & CO., 19 TA VISTOCK STREET. 



POEMS, 



BY 



MAY PROBYN. 



Square i6mo, cloth, gilt. Price 35. 6d. (Post free.) 



PRESS NOTICES. 



"Miss Probyn's small and modest volume displays much brightness of 

 fancy and sweetness of feeling, united with excellent metrical science. . . 

 Perhaps we shall give the best idea of Miss Probyn's manner by quoting 

 one of her bright and picturesque pages, taken from the quaint poem called 

 ' Soapsuds ' : 



" ' Her arms were white as milky curds ; 

 Her speech was like the song of birds ; 

 Her eyes were grey as mountain lakes 

 Where dream of shadow stirs and breaks. 



We would willingly linger longer over this charming little book, which we 

 leave with reluctance, and with the hope of meeting its author's name once 

 more before very long." Saturday Review. 



" Very sweet, very simple, and very skilful." Vanity Fair. 



"May Probyn has written the prettiest and daintest volume of verse 

 we have met with for a long time. . . She has a fresh, sweet voice, very 

 delightful to listen to. It is positively fascinating to read these bright, pure 

 verses. . . . Hers are exquisite fancies, tender thoughts, and a joyous 

 delight in the beauties of colour and sound and summer ; hers, too, is a 

 sweet melancholy, the fair sorrow of love which lingers in the lines of our 

 old English ballads. There are many of May Probyn's poems we should 

 like to quote had we space, especially ' Soapsuds, ' which is a delicious piece 

 of work. She has written a volume of verse that is worth reading, some 

 bits of which linger like perfume in the memory." Westminster Review. 



"There is pathos in these little poems, and once or twice a sign of the 

 rarer gift of humour." Pall Mall Gazette. 



" She has a genuine vein of fancy and sense of rhythm, coupled with 

 much felicity of expression. " Daily News. 



" She has a free touch, and imparts to her songs a movement and swing 

 which are charming, the more so as these do not constitute the sole attrac- 

 tion. We look forward with pleasure to Miss Probyn's next volume." 

 Lloyd 's Newspaper. 



"Her volume is noteworthy for its simplicity, its sincerity, and for an 

 underlying tenderness and pathos which are rarely met with in modern verse 

 in the same degree. Each poem carries its impression direct to the heart, 

 and we are greatly mistaken if several of them do not become household 

 words in English homes before long." Belgian Neivs. 



" If lightness and elegance are qualities to recommend a charming book, 

 exquisitely got up, May Probyn's little volume should be popular. A bright, 

 clever volume, in which we find much good rhyme and still more genuine 

 and pleasing poetry." Newcastle Courant. 



