66 or"Tell me, thou Star," a thing of close-wrought a gold like“ My Last Duchess” or “ Ulysses,” the work-a-day vigour of Scott's lyrics, the sympathies of Wordsworth in their pensive and deliberate movement, the celestial-infantine fancies of William Blake, and the unconscious pathos and picturesqueness of an Old Ballad. He will perhaps compare Shelley's “ Fugitives" with Campbell's more realistic treatment of a similar theme in “ Lord Ullin's Daughter," finding himself in the midst of either stormwith the lovers pushing off from shore, where “ In the scowl of Heaven each face Grew dark as they were speaking,” and with the other two, murmuring proud pleasure, “ While, around, the lash'd ocean, To and fro." He will love Herrick (naturally and always a true lyrist), and taste, almost with a kind of awe, the delicately delicious lighter movements of our grand Master, like those of Philomel herself to the Faëry Queen “ Philomel with melody Lulla, lulla, lullaby :" and then admire how one little Song (such a one is “Go, lovely Rose,”) can save a sinking Poet, like a solitary plank in the shipwreck of his fame. He will bring fit audience to the subtle, romantic vibrations of Coleridge's too often despondingly-introspective mind, or to the winged rush of Shelley's most eager spirit, leaving air alive with billows of melody, or to the rich and dreamful tones of that even younger voice which too soon fell silent. He will gladly claim America for blood-relation in intellect and poetry, on account of her one Great Writer (as yet), whose prose is so royally precious as to outvalue even his own verse, fine as that is. Nor will he fail to recognize the sad fantastic tune of the few weird notes, sounding as from a cave, which belong to the poet of “ the Raven;" or the firm and trustworthy tone of Bryant, the transatlantic Campbell. He will be one who can appreciate the emphatic swing of “ Ye Mariners," and the mysterious modulation in such words as “ Wild roses and ivy serpentine.” And he will greatly rejoice to remember that of the men who have enriched these and the world, some are still living, “ to brighten the sunshine.” pages CONTENTS. ONNET. To the Nightingale Milton Inscription for a Fountain on a The Passionate Shepheard to his Song. From“The Miller's Daugh- The Character of a Happy Life Sir H. Wotton 13 Abou Ben Adhem and the Angel Leigh Hunt 15 Wordsworth 28 Hohenlinden Campbell . 29 Sonnet. From the Portuguese E. B. Browning 30 Clerk Saunders . Old Ballad 31 Invocation of Silence R. Flecknoe 35 . . Page Song. Why so pale and wan Sir J. Suckling 38 Sonnet. The Idle Voyager Hart. Coleridge 40 The Lover of Music to his Piano- The Fairies. A Child's Song W. Allingham. 42 Ballad. Sigh on, sad heart Hood To Lucasta, going to the Warres R. Lovelace 52 Introduction to “ Songs of Inno- Sonnet. To Mr. Lawrence Milton To the Virgins, to make much of Song. I wander'd by the brook-side R. M. Milnes 66 Evening Song of the Priest of Pan John Fletcher . 72 Song. From “ As you like it” Shakespeare . . . |
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