New-York daily tribune., 1844-01-20
commences :
I" NV child
Brings YOU this letter.

My child
Brings you this letter.
ask YOU not 10 love him--le is there
And YOU have loved him without wish or prayerr'
His father sends him forth for fame and gold
An angel on this errand have stryen
Against it-but he is not inine TO hold,
They say It's wrong to wish to stay him, even,
And that my pride s poor-ny ambition cold
Alas to get him only back TO Heaven
Is NV own passionate prayer! Think me not wild,
'Tis that / have an angel formy child!
sThev say that he has genius. | but see
That he gets wisdom as the tiow'r gets hue,
While others hive it like the tollng bee;
That, with him. all things beautiful keep new,
And every morn the first morn seems TO be
So freshly look abroad his eyes OF blue
What he has written seems to me no more
Than have thought thousand times before
At the close she writes that there is a little
ruptured vein over his heart which at night shows
how it has sped during the day.-If WELL the
brqnchng hacery shoes bright-lf i'll, duH
and dead.' With the earnestness Of mother,
she bids her friend steal every night to his couch,
and after sleep has lulled him into forgetiulncss,
note the language Of this tell-tac vein-and says
"But if It's sanguine hue look cold aud dead,
An, Uerrude. let your ilnllSlerlilS DC
As you would answer II, III Heaven TO me ;"
1t is painful to witness such burning, Thrilling
love- The heart grows wild in which 1t dwells.
All its quiverng chords are strung to such ten
sion that breath would snap them. her love
absorbs all ambition. She wishes for nothing III
the wide world but her boy, and has but one wild
passionate PRAYER and that is to get her angel
back to heaven The whole letter is wonder
fully sustained to its close, and will bear study
like finished painting There is but one blemsh
nit:-the line in the next to the last verse
Stay. weI thought on is bad. 1t has too
much of the ail, hold on minute; capital idea
has just struck me- for the spirit of the piece
BUTT is sweet, surpasslngly So and stands IN the
midst OF this long poem ike IA fairy island m the
midst of swamp.
Mr.. Willis says, In introducing tins poem TO
the world, if ii is not poetry it is at least fan
deineation Of the society N which the subject is
laid This may be true, but 1t does not help the
matter The description of the inside OF cot
ion mill may be very correct but would not pro-
baby be poetry With Mr. Wilis's power over
the English language we have not the least doubt
he could give vivid description of the INSIDE OF
cotton mill, with all its looms, wheels, bands.
crossbands, and gudgeons, in regular AleXan-
drncs, but i, would not be poetry fora that
This poem certainly eyinces great mastery OF
language, and great power over the difficulties OF
rhyme and rhythm, but wc have never yet seen a
successful imitation of the Don Juan style. We
have not the least doubt that Byron wrote the
most Of his poem when he was half drunk. 1T
was certainly written IN his most degenerate
days, and for our part VIC do not like the con-
celted, cynical tone in which II was composed.
AMERICAN REvIEw.-The present number OF
this work contains several valuable articles An
cent and modern fountains we can recommend,
not only to the builders Of fountains in our city,
but the curious on such subjects in general In
deed, the author has made am excellent and read
able article out of his subject Michael AgoD-
lsies,' poem delivered before society of Gene
va College, shows good deal of poctica power,
lhe great faults in 1t are inharmonious rhymes
Jarrng with too great frequency on the ear, apd
""hl ol 0enntencSS Oh ldea. IL mas 100 muCn
o' the excitement OF mere notion and too little
ol that which arises from clear, vivid and de
'lfhtc conception of things. The third Canto OF
NE Heart of Oak possesses great deal OF mer-
1t It's easy and flowing, and wi;hal clear In Its
descriptions. The Hunters Song at the close
is spirited thing. The criticism on Wler's
Painting is no criticism. Tendency of the
i!c finc Arts is beautifully written; and Woman's
Mlsslon IS an excellent article. (Saxton X Miles
Broadway
CHARCOAL S1ETcHEs-A second edition
OF these capital Sketches by Joseph Z. Neal
mas been published. They are full of tun to
Tue up, and of the kind, arc the best things VIZ
nave seen. Neal struck cut a new phase OF liie
70 oellneate, and he has no competitor in this