Strange element : Selected Poems.

Francestown, NH : Golden Quill Press, 1966., 1966. Fine. [1st edition] ;128 pp. ; 20 cm. ; LCCN: 66-24155 ; LC: PS3537.M983; Dewey: 811.52 ; OCLC: 2852024 ; textured tan and black faux leather with gold lettering and designs in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Gifts for you -- Four deer on a hilltop -- People walk these days -- Old woman, alone -- Girl at the door -- Recording of Robert Frost -- Hands -- Stone wall makers -- Valley sun -- Two men -- House in darkness of sleep -- Old people in rocking chairs -- Love letter -- Girl of the storm - Landmarks -- A Christmas party -- The barn -- Man of the hills -- Theater -- Strange element -- Fall of rain -- The earth dwellers -- From my thought -- Histories -- Light with drums -- Aquarium -- Brief moment -- Atoms -- Outer distance -- Weather report -- Letter to the stars -- Walking -- This is Earth -- Introduction to Earth -- Dust universe -- Early clearing of fog -- Night sounds -- Mental landscape -- Return of the coast -- First night at the shore -- Maine rocks -- Night walk on Maine beach -- Sea sounds -- Waves -- The shore cliffs -- Turning the page -- Sound of surf -- Moon over New England beach -- Out of waves like tongues -- Rolling fog on Maine coast -- Island landscape -- The woods -- Stand of trees -- Tree against sky -- Pin es at the window -- Orchard -- Elms on the coast -- Forest -- April robins -- The pheasant -- Field sparrow -- Morning thrush -- The mourning dove -- boy and bird -- Phantasmogoria -- Letter from Maine -- Universe of rain -- Firm admonition -- Lette r from New Hampshire -- Union Station -- Botany exam -- Plowing in April -- Sky of apples -- Country kitchen early morning -- Late plowing -- The last haying -- New England farm in December -- Smell of apples -- Cows at the pasture bars -- Weeds in the strawberries -- Spring plowing -- Response -- Rise of fog -- The praying mantis -- On turning over a stone -- Ignored strata -- Desk -- Creek rapids -- Lost mountains -- Sunset. ; Daniel Webster Smythe was Poet-In-Residence, Bradley University, Peoria ; FINE/FINE