This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Wings of Youth is Nancy Buckley's second collection of lyric poems, a tender and hopeful book shaped by youth, love, sorrow, memory, and the inward life of the heart. Its musical, image-rich verses move through gardens, dreams, windows, roses, sea light, and the quiet beauty of ordinary moments, turning simple scenes into radiant reflections on feeling and faith. Early poems such as "Wings," "The Singer," "Dreamers," and "The Little Gypsy" establish a romantic world where longing is softened by nature, devotion, and imagination. As the collection unfolds, Buckley blends homesickness, prayerful reflection, temptation, heartbreak, and spiritual endurance with a gentle, searching grace. Poems like "My Little Window," "Homesick," "Silver Ships," "The Little Old House," and "The Easter Bell" contrast inner ache with restorative beauty and hope. Later pieces, including "A Gypsy's Longing," "Candles," and "Rendezvous," deepen the themes of absence, divided desire, and the heart as a sacred place where love and loss are preserved. Warm, wistful, and quietly uplifting, the collection ends in reflective abundance and hard-won happiness.

À propos de l'auteur

Buckley, Nancy

Nancy Buckley was an American writer whose life and work reflected a deep concern for the hopes, struggles, and moral choices of ordinary people, especially young readers finding their place in the world. Though not as widely remembered today as some of her contemporaries, she built a respected literary reputation through fiction that blended emotional honesty, accessible storytelling, and a clear sense of purpose. Her career unfolded during a period when literature for younger audiences was becoming more attentive to character, realism, and the inner lives of girls and boys facing change, responsibility, and self-discovery. Buckley’s writing is especially valued for its steady attention to themes of growth, resilience, family bonds, and the difficult transition from childhood to adulthood, themes that still feel immediate in a world where young people continue to navigate uncertainty, identity, and expectation. Her work earned readers’ trust by treating their experiences seriously while offering encouragement rather than sentimentality, and that balance remains one of her greatest strengths. Today, Nancy Buckley matters because she reminds us that stories about becoming oneself can be both gentle and incisive, rooted in a particular time yet still resonant for modern readers. Her legacy lives on in the tradition of thoughtful, character-driven fiction that respects young people’s emotional lives. Readers who enjoy warm, reflective stories about growing up, family, and personal courage will especially appreciate her work.