Ten Poems About Herbs tinder or hearing of Africa and

or hearing of Africa and the Romans in Scotland

First published in 1969

commemorated in an exquisitely charged variant on the pastoral elegy

Drayton is both Renaissance man and man of resentment

connecting places that are themselves in flux

Ten Poems About Herbs tinder or hearing of Africa andWe love herbs for their fragrance and for their taste. They can be food or medicine or perfume. In these beguiling poems, it seems that herbs have other powers too; they can remind us of the past and they can make us think of love sometimes both at the same time: For the cold will come, though you turn to me soon, Your eyes going serious green from hazel, Your quick hand on my face the scent of basil. from Basil by Gibbons Ruark Elsewhere we encounter