An small book of poetry can be a delight to read and reread. John Oxenham was the pseudonym for William Arthur Dunkerley (1852 - 1941). He was an English journalist, novelist and poet. Bees in Amber: a Little Book of Thoughtful Verse (1913) became a bestseller. He also wrote Under The Iron Flail (1902), Barbe Of Grand Bayou (1903), Bondman Free (1903), Hearts In Exile (1904), John Of Gerisau (1904), A Weaver Of Webs (1904), White Fire (1905), and Giant Circumstance (1906). Some of the poems in Bees in Amber are Hearts in Exile, Wandered, Bide a Wee, The Word that Was Left Unsaid, Don' t Worry , The Golden Rose, Gadara AD 31, and The Bells of Stephan Lane. | Bees in Amber by John Oxenham, Paperback | Indigo Chapters