Leah Bodine Drake

Drake's "Whisper Water" was the cover story in the May 1953 Weird Tales

Leah Bodine Drake (22 December 22 1904 – 21 November 1964) was an American poet, editor and critic.

Quotes

Haunted Hour

• 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

• Weird Tales, Volume 36, no. 2, issued in November/December 1941