New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-01-04


From your pleasures far and line.
For oh say the children we arc weary.
And We cannot run or leap:
II we crreh for meadows, It weI- merely
To drop down III them and sleep.
Our knees tre:nble sore!y IN the STOPPING,
We fall on our iacts tying to GO,
Aud underneath our heavy eyeids drOopins
The Tcddest flower would LOOK rs pale Is snow
For all day we drag our burden. tirins.
Or oil day drive the wheels 0i non
In the factories round and round.
All duy long the wheel. IRE dronne, turning:
Their wind comes our faces
Til hearts turn, and heads with pulses burning
Turns the SKY N The high window black md reeling
Turns the long gh; Tint droopeth down the wall.
se uGs ali d dn and np1 Ne WITH is u
All day long tho iron wheels ure drcnlng,
And sometime. we could pray,
% ye wheels, (ircakns of IN mad moaning.D
Stop, be silent Tor to-day
Ay, be silent let them hear each ether breathing,
For moment. mourn 70 mouth;
Let them touch each others hands. IN fresh wIealng
OF tier tender human youth
Lei them feel thy ihis his, c.d metallic molten I
Let them prove their lnwErd sQuis cninst The NOTION
sill III i diy sy ,hS Sf IRON y Wheel g ga 2 "se'
Asit fate in each were STARK
Spin on blndly IN the dark.
Now tell The weary children. my brothers,
Thu, they look 10 Him and pray,
For the blessed Oae who bIesseth nl the others,
They an,wer-' Who i. God Tint lie should benr Us.
When sob aloud the human creatures near US
Pass unhcarng-at least. answer not word;
Strangers speaking at the door.
Is it likely God with angels singing round Him.
Hears orr weeping nny more?
Two words, indeed. of pIay'ns we remember;
And at nldnlsht's hour Of harm: :,-,,.
We say softly Tor charm
We sry no other words except, Our liThcT!'
He au ay y" nurE TSm VIII: the silence sweet TO gather
And hol. beih in His nel't hand, which IS srons
(For they call Im good nud mild
Answer Smiling down The steep woIi very pureIy)
Gene ard rest w..h me, my child
Blu, no. say the children. weeping faster.
lie .len: rs stone;
And they tell US, of Ills image is the master
Who commands US To work on;
Go to' say the children; up IN Heaven ca,
Dark. wkeelike, turning coud. ere al we iad
D% nei Ink io, I'm 10 mbnt ,enr, have made u. bird
Do you hear the children weeping and dispFovins,
O nv brothers, what We ,esch? 49,
And the children doubt OF each'
And well may the children weep before yc.
They nic ere they rua,
Which i. brighter han the sum
They know the griei of men, bni not the wisdom
'Pkey sipE in their Gc>par with hope at calm,
Are slave, without the liberty IN ChI,tioIn,
Are martyrs by the pang without the palm
Are worn as If with nge yet unFs'he'neD
No Joy OF memory Keep, ,,., .
Are orphsnS of the earthly love and heavenly
Let them weep. lei them weep!
They look up. with Their pale and sunken faces.
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For You think you see their angel. in their places.
How Mi, nns ey'i he 'sa ny, how lons cruel nation
WI YOU stand to move the world chd'' heart
Trampie down with mailed heeit' palp,Hi,l"l.
Our blood splashe, upward. o or iyI9ne
And your purple shows youI path,
But the child : sob curseh deeper IN the silence
Than the strong nan IN his wrah!
ga fact" says no,c rendered puthetcaIy historca
by Mr. IIorre's Report of his Commission.
II II be said thst the poetry, The tragedy here
is in the facts, yet how rare is it to find mind
that can both feel and upbear such facts
We have already said that, as poet, Miss
Barrett is deficient in plastic energy, and ihat she
is diffuse. We must add many blemishcs Of
over strained and constrained thought and ex-
preston. The ways in which words are coined
or forced from their habilual meanings does not
carry its excu,c wits it. We find no gain that
ccmpensates the loss of elcgance aud simplicity,
One practice whics has aieady had lis censoFs
of using the adjective for the nous, as IN the
cases of "Thc cry of the Human Leaning
from the Golden we, also, find cfsnsive, not
onlv to the habiuel tastes, but to the sympaihies
Of the very rnoad awakened By the writer.
We hear that she has been lcng al Invalid,
and, while tie knowledge of this increases ad-
miratioa Tor her achievements and delight at the
extent of the inhuence,-so muca lght flowing
from the rkncss of the sick room.-wc seem
to trace injurious results, too. There is eften
want Of plant ard glow;ng life. The sun does
not ALWAYS warm the ma.5ic. We have spoken
Of the great b Ok culture OF this m;rd. We
must now say that this culture is loo great in
proportion TO that ii has received from actual life
TIE lore is not always ass'mllated to the new
form; The Illustrations sometimes impede the at
tention rather than help It's course; and we are
too much ard too oftea remir ded of other minds
and other hres.
Great variety of metres are used, and with
force and facility. Bat they have no; tia; eeeP
music which belongs 20 metres which are tie
native growth of the poel's mind. In that case
others NAV hare used tiien, bu; we feel that, II
thew had not, he must have invented them; that
they are original with HIN. Miss Barrett is more
favored by the grand and thoughtful, than BY The
lyric muse.
We have taus p tinted out all the faults We
could find in Miss Barrett, feeling that her
strength ard uobl,ness dtseEva this act 81 high
respect. She has no reed ef lcniency' OF eau
ton. The test comment ufon sach criiiqae'
nav be mace by sctjonng ibis paragraph from
her Preface;
aIf ii were not presrrn2ia9us lsngrage en- the
ios If one 10 whom life Is nors than usually uncer-
tain. nv lavorits wish fgr this work would be, that
]. - I'll Is. ,ha nuh,ic IS & deposl ambitious