Leah Bodine Drake
American writer
Leah Bodine Drake (22 December 22 1904 – 21 November 1964) was an American poet, editor and critic.
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Quotes edit
Haunted Hour edit
- The sky is colored like a peacock's breast;
There lingers yet one thin, chill line of gold
Down where the woods their somber branches hold
In silhouette against the fading west.
Dark leaves, dark earth, slow-breathing and at rest,
Whence frail scents rise of dew-wet grass and mold.
A single star gleams diamond-clear and cold,
Like one sharp note from elfin viol wrest.
This is the haunted hour,—such woods surround
Grey Merlin in his oak, adrouse with dwale;
In such a gloaming once the lorn knight found
The faery woman in the river-vale;
And underneath this star long, long ago
The Dark Tower heard a lonely slug-horn blow!- 1941, Weird Tales, Vol. 36, p. 105
External links edit
- Weird Tales, Volume 36, no. 2, issued in November/December 1941