A collection of poetry, of the genre 'Society Verse'. Beautifully illustrated by Francis Day. It includes poems of love, desire, flirtation and marriage. ""An Idyl of the Period"" describes the flirtation of two young persons together on the stairs at a dancing-party who confide their flirtation to their friends the next day.
I stumbled upon this beautiful old book in a bookstore I'd just discovered. It smelled so nice and was so beautiful that I had to have it in my life. I wasn't expecting to fall in love with poetry within. I found clever poems full of flirtation, love and divorce and mere pages after I would be reeling from longing, truth, loneliness and beauty. I'm shocked that this mans poems aren't more well known because they're wonderful. I cannot put into words the happiness this book gives me and its a travesty that I've no one to talk about this book with.