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'Tis   said   that   some   have   died   for   love   The   pet   lamb   Stepping   westward 

The   childless   father   Ode   on   intimations   of   immortality   Sir   Walter   Scott 

��1771´1832��   Proud   Maisie   A   weary   lot   is   thine   The   Maid   of   Neidpath 

Samuel   Taylor   Coleridge   ��1772´1834��   Kubla   Khan   Youth   and   age   The 

rime    of   the  ancient    mariner    Walter    Savage     Landor    ��1775´1864��       Rose 

Aylmer       Epitaph     Child     of   a   day     Thomas      Campbell       ��1767´1844�� 

Hohenlinden         Earl   March      Charles     Lamb     ��1775´1835��       Hester     Allan 

Cunningham   ��1784´1842��   A   wet   sheet   and   a   flowing   sea   George   Noel 

Gordon�察     �Lord    Byron     ��1788´1823��      The    Isles  of  Greece     Percy    Bysshe 

Shelley ��1792´1822�� Hellas Wild with weeping To the night To a skylark 

To the moon The question The waning moon Ode to the west wind Rarely�察�

rarely comest thou The invitation�察�to Jane The recollection Ode to heaven 

Life of life Autumn Stanzas written in dejection near Naples Dirge for the 

year A widow bird The two spirits John Keats ��1795´1821�� La Belle Dame 

sans   merci   On   first   looking   into   Chapman's   Homer  To   sleep   The   gentle 

south   Last   sonnet   Ode   to   a   nightingale   Ode   on   a   Grecian   urn   Ode   to 

Autumn Ode to Psyche Ode to Melancholy Hartley Coleridge ��1796´1849�� 

She is not fair 



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                    ALICE MEYNELL'S 

                 COMMENTS/NOTES 



    EPITHALAMION 

    Written   by   Spensor   on   his   marriage   in   Ireland�察  �Elizabeth   Boyle   of 

Kilcoran�察  �who   survived   him�察  �married   one   Roger   Seckerstone�察  �and   was 

again a widow。 Dr。 Grosart seems to have finally decided the identity of 

the heroine of this great poem。 It is worth while to explain�察�once for all�察�

that I do not   use the accented   e for the longer  pronunciation of the past 

participle。 The accent is not an English sign�察�and�察�to my mind�察�disfigures 

the verse�察�neither do I think it necessary to cut off the e with an apostrophe 

when   the   participle   is   shortened。 The   reader   knows   at   a   glance   how   the 

word   is   to   be   numbered�察  �besides�察  �he   may   have   his   preferences   where 

choice is allowed。 In reading such a line as Tennyson's 

     ;Dear as remembered kisses after death�察─�

    one man likes the familiar sound of the word ;remembered; as we all 

speak it now�察�another takes pleasure in the four light syllables filling the 

line so full。 Tennyson uses the apostrophe as a rule�察�but neither he nor any 

other author is quite consistent。 

       ROSALYND'S MADRIGAL 

       It   may   please   the   reader   to   think   that   this   frolic�察  �rich�察  �and   delicate 

singer was Shakespeare's very Rosalind。 From Dr。 Thomas Lodge's novel�察�

Euphues' Golden Legacy�察�was taken much of the story�察�with some of the 

characters�察�and some few of the passages�察�of As You Like It。 

       ROSALINE 

       This splendid poem ��from the same romance���察�written on the poet's 

voyage     to  the  Islands  of  Terceras   and   the  Canaries�察  �has  the  fire  and 

freshness of the south and the sea�察�all its colours are clear。 The reader's ear 

will at once teach him to read the sigh ;heigh ho; so as to give the first 

syllable the time of two ��long and short��。 

       FAREWELL TO ARMS 

       George    Peele's  four   fine  stanzas   ��which    must   be   mentioned    as 



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dedicated to Queen Elizabeth�察�but are better without that dedication�� exist 

in another form�察�in the first person�察�and with some archaisms smoothed。 

But the third person seems to be far more touching�察�the old man himself 

having done with verse。 

       THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD 

       The sixth stanza is perhaps by Izaak Walton。 

       TAKE�察�O TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY 

       The author of this exquisite song is by no means certain。 The second 

stanza   is   not   with   the   first   in   Shakespeare�察  �but   it   is   in   Beaumont   and 

Fletcher。 

       KIND ARE HER ANSWERS 

       These verses are a more subtle experiment in metre by the musician 

and   poet�察  �Campion�察  �than   even   the   following�察  �Laura�察  �which   he   himself 

sweetly commended as ;voluble�察�and fit to express any amorous conceit。; 

In Kind are her Answers the long syllables and the trochaic movement of 

the short lines meet the contrary movement of the rest�察�with an exquisite 

effect of flux and reflux。 The ;dancers; whose time they sang must have 

danced ��with Perdita�� like ;a wave of the sea。; 

       DIRGE 

       I  have   followed    the  usual   practice  in  omitting    the  last  and  less 

beautiful stanza。 

       FOLLOW 

       Campion's ;airs�察─�for which he wrote his words�察�laid rules too urgent 

upon what would have been a delicate genius in poetry。 The airs demanded 

so many stanzas�察�but they gave his imagination leave to be away�察�and they 

depressed and even confused his metrical play�察�hurting thus the two vital 

spots of poetry。 Many of the stanzas for music make an unlucky repeating 

pattern with the poor variety that a repeating wall´paper does not attempt。 

And   yet   Campion   began   again   and   again   with   the   onset   of   a   true   poet。 

Take�察   �for  example�察   �the  poem   beginning     with   the  vitality  of  this  line�察�

;touching in its majesty;´ 

     ;Awake�察�thou spring of speaking grace�察�mute rest becomes not thee� ─�

    Who   would   have   guessed   that   the   piece   was   to   close   in   a   jogging 

stanza containing a reflection on the fact that brutes are speechless�察�with 



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these two final lines ´ 

     ;If speech be then the best of graces�察�Doe it not in slumber smother� ─�

     Campion yields a curious collection of beautiful first lines。 

     ;Sleep�察�angry beauty�察�sleep and fear not me; 

     is far finer than anything that follows。 So is there a single gloom in this 

´ 

     ;Follow thy fair sun�察�unhappy shadow� ─�

     And a single joy in this ´ 

     ;Oh�察�what unhoped´for sweet supply� ─�

     Another solitary line is one that by its splendour proves Campion the 

author of Cherry Ripe ´ 

     ;A thousand cherubim fly in her looks。; 

     And yet ;a thousand cherubim; is a line of a poem full of the dullest 

kind of reasoningcurious matter for musicand of the intricate knotting 

of what is a very simple thread of thought。 It was therefore no easy matter 

to choose something of Campion's for a collection of the finest work。 For 

an   historical   book   of   representative   poetry   the   question   would   be   easy 

enough�察  �for   there   Campion   should   appear   by   his   glorious   lyric�察  �Cherry 

Ripe�察    �by   one    or   two   poems      of   profounder     imagination      ��however 

imperfect���察�and by a madrigal written for the music ��however the stanzas 

may flag in their quibbling��。 But the work of choosing among his lyrics for 

the   sake   of   beauty   shows   too   clearly   the   inequality�察  �the   brevity   of   the 

inspiration�察  �and   the poet's   absolute   disregard of the   moment   of its   flight 

and departure。 A few splendid lines may be reason enough for extracting a 

short poem�察�but must not be made to bear too great a burden。 

       WHEN THOU MUST HOME 

       Of   the   quality  of   this   imaginative   lyric   there   is   no   doubt。   It   is   fine 

throughout�察�as we confess even after the greatness of the opening�此� 

     ;When thou must home to shades of underground�察�And there arrived�察�a 

new admired guest; 

     It is as solemn and fantastic at the close as at this dark and splendid 

opening�察�and throughout�察�past description�察�Elizabethan。 This single poem 

must bind Campion to that period without question�察�and as he lived thirty´ 

six years in the actual reign of Elizabeth�察�and printed his Book of Airs with 



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Rosseter two years before her death�察�it is by no violence that we give him 

the name that covers our earlier poets of the great age。 When thou must 

Home is of the day of Marlowe。 It has the qualities of great poetry�察�and 

especially the quality of keeping its simplicity�察�and it has a quality of great 

simplicity   not   at   all   child´like�察  �but   adult�察  �large�察  �gay�察  �credulous�察  �tragic�察�

sombre�察�and amorous。 

       THE FUNERAL 

       Donne�察�too�察�is a poet of fine onsets。 It was with some hesitation that I 

admitted a poem having the middle stanza of this Funeral�察�but the earlier 

lines of the last are fine。 

       CHARIS' TRIUMPH 

       The freshest of Ben Jonson's lyrics have been chosen。 Obviously it is 

freshness that he generally lacks�察�for all his vigour�察�his emphatic initiative�察�

and his overbearing and impulsive voice in verse。 There is a stale breath in 

that hearty shout。 Doubtless it is to the credit of his honesty that he did not 

adopt the country´ phrases in vogue�察�but when he takes landscape as a task 

the effect is ill enough。 I have already had the temerity to find fault for a 

blunder of meaning�察�with the passage of a most famous lyric�察�where it says 

the contrary of what it would say ´ 

     ;But might I of Jove's nectar sup I would not change for thine�察─�

     and for doing so have encountered the anger rather than the argument 

of those who cannot admire a pretty lyric but they must hold reason itself 

to be in error rather than allow that a line of it has chanced to get turned in 

the rhyming。 

       IN EARTH 

       ;I   ever   saw   anything�察─  �says   Charles   Lamb�察   �like   this   funeral   dirge�察�

except   the   ditty   which   reminds   Ferdinand   of   his   drowned   father   in   the 

Tempest。 As   that   is   of   the   water�察  �watery�察  �so   this   is   of   the   earth�察  �earthy。 

Both have that intentness of feeling which seems to resolve itself into the 

element which it contemplates。; 

       SONG ��Phoebus�察�arise�。� 

       All Drummond's poems seem to be minor poems�察�even at their finest�察�

except only this。 He must have known�察�for the creation of that poem�察�some 

more impassioned and less restless hour。 It is�察�from the outset to the close�察�



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the   sigh   of   a   profound   expectation。   There   is   no   division   into   stanzas�察�

because its metre is the breath of life。 One m

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