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The Janitor's Boy, and Other Poems - Nathalia Crane
Nathalia Crane
The Janitor's Boy, and Other Poems
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
FOREWORD
NATHALIA AT TEN
THE JANITOR’S BOY
OH, ROGER JONES
THE FLATHOUSE ROOF
JOHN PAUL JONES
THE ROVERS
THE VACANT LOT
THE SWINGING STAIR
THE VESTAL
THE BLIND GIRL
PRESCIENCE
LOVE
WHAT EVERY GIRL KNOWS
JEALOUSY
MOTHER’S BONNET
THE RAG BAG
THE FIRST SNOW STORM
SUFFERING
THE MAP MAKERS
DIANA
THE READING BOY
THE BATTLE ON THE FLOOR
MID-DAY AT TRINITY
CASTLE BILL
CASTLE WILLIAM
THE ROLL OF THE ROSES
THE GOSSIPS
TO-MORROW
THE ROSE OF REST
THE SYMBOLS
THE SALAMANDER ISLES
THE CHESS GAME
THE DINOSAURS’ EGGS
THE FIRST STORY
THE THREE-CORNERED LOT
THE HISTORY OF HONEY
THE HISTORY OF PAINTING
THE ROAD TO ROSLYN
THE ARMY LAUNDRESS
REGINA MENDOSENA
THE GIRL FROM SOAP SUDS ROW
EVA
OLD MAID’S REVERIE
THE COMMONPLACE
BERKLEY COMMON
CHOICE
THE FIRE VASE
MY HUSBANDS
AFTERWORD
FOREWORD
Table of Contents
When I took the two poems from Nathalia’s mother, and promised to read them, I had seen none of the press notices of Miss Crane’s talent. Being only a quasi-journalist I seldom read the newspapers. I am extremely skeptical of infant prodigies, and the poems of Nathalia’s that I have since seen most quoted in newspaper articles about her are just what you would expect. They prove nothing except that she is a little girl with a lively fancy. Certain poems in this first collection, however, seem to me to prove something more.
Some long time ago in Scotland there was a little girl named Marjorie Fleming, and to-day a twelve-year-old, Helen Douglas Adam, the daughter of a Scotch parson and his wife of Dundee, is her successor overseas to the juvenile purple. Miss Adam has now been published both in England and America. Yet the best poems of hers that I have read do not seem to me to possess such individuality or such maturity of melody and diction as Miss Crane’s best poems. Then there is our own Hilda Conkling, whose mother is a distinguished American poet, and who writes in free verse and has published several volumes of poems. Hilda is a real poet. But she has never grappled with and conquered certain problems of poetic structure from which Miss Crane, by sheer instinct, seems to have wrested occasional victory.
I took the two poems from Nathalia’s mother; and first I read The Blind Girl. I came upon the two verses:
In the darkness who would answer for the color of a rose,
Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes.
Oh, night, thy soothing prophecies companion all our ways,
Until releasing hands let fall the catalogue of days.
These lines and the meditation from which they spring were the spontaneous phrasing and the natural meditation of—a child of ten. That in itself, I think, is sufficiently remarkable.
In the darkness who would cavil at the question of a line,
Since the darkness