New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-26

For far above her head the pris0n-bars
Mock her with narrow sections Of that sky
She knew go wide and blue and full Of stars.
When gazing upward through the branches high
Ofihe free forest i she then 20 die
Where j. be where the strong armed and the brave
Who in that vision answered her wild cry
Where il h. where, the lover who should save
And snatch her from her f4,e-an gnoninious grave
Oh pity her all sinful though she be-,
While thus the transient dream. Of freedom rlse
Confrasted with her waking destiny
scorn il for devils soft compassion les
In ange hearts, and beams from angeleyes
Pity her Never more. with Wild embrace,
Those hex.ie arms shall clasp him ere sne dlts
Never the fierce sad beauty Of her face
Be lit with geniler hope, or loves triumphant grace
Lonely she perishes ike some Wild bird
That strains IL wing against opposing wires
Her hearts tumultuous painting may be heard
While 70 the thought Of rescue -he aspires.
Then, offs own deep strength II fainis and tires
The frenzy Of her mood begins 20 cease;
Her varying pulse with fuiiering stroke erpiIes
And the .ick WEAKNESS that i not peace
CreePs slowly through her blood and promises release
In the same soft and flowing style and with the
same uns;udied fidelity to nature is the grief Of the
Gypsy husband painted when he comes and finds
her dead. After the first fury Of rage and despair
is spent he "weepeth ike a child
And many day. by many sunny bank
Or forest pond close frInsed with PUSHES dank,
He walls. h- clench hands on his eyclids prest
Or by lone hedges, where the grass grows rank,
Stretched prone. ~ travellers deem. IN IDLE rest,
Nouns for that murdered girl the dove on' Wild nest
To such passages the woman's heart lends the
rhetoric
Generally the poem is written with considerable
strength in a good style sustained. and sufficiently
adorned BY the flowers OF feeling 1t shows an ex
pansion of mind highly honorable 10 lady placed
as Mrs Norton has been. and for which she, no
doubt is much indebted to her experience of sor-
row She has felt the need of faith and hope Of an
enlargement of sympathy. The poem may be read
through at once and without fatigue; this Is much
to say for an ethical poem. filling large volume.
II is however chiefly indebted for It's celebrity TO
the circumstances Of It's authorship beautiful
lady celebrated in arsiocratc circles joins the de
mocratic movement now so widely spreading in
light literature and men hail toe fact az sign OF the
times. The poem is addressed to the upper class
es and even from its defects. calculated 10 win ac-
cess to their minds Its outward garb too is suited
TO attract their notice The book !. simply bu, beau
tifully got up the two stanzas looking if written
for the page they FILL and in pre-exisent harmony
with the framework and margin. There is only
ugly thing and that rightiully ugly, the design
for the frontispiece by Macli-e. The Child of the
Islands, represented by an infant form TO whose
frgid awkwardness there ia no correspondence in
the most degraded models that can be found in Ma
ture for that age with the tamest OF angels kneeling
at his head and feet angels that have not spirit and
sweetness enough to pray away fly forms the cen
ire Around him are other figures Of whom il Is
impossible say whether they goblins or fairies,
come 10 curse or bless. The accessories are as bad
as the main group mean in conception. tame in exc
cution. And the subject admitted Of so beautiful
and noble an illustration by Art We marvel that a
person Of so refined taste Mrs. Norton and 30
warmly engaged in the subject should have admit
ted thi. to its companonship. The volume may be
found at Appleions.
We intended 10 have given some account Of
Prince and his poems, in this connection but must
now wait till another number, for we have spread
our words over too much space already.