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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