The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-07-16

wasting beneath the shadow and the cloud But the
interior man, tbs soul Of the poet 10 wandering
away through bright world Of Ssau.y and 'Sy Eof%s
fore his interior eye and tones soft svery and swsst
as those that gush forth when angels fingers sweep
across ETHEREAL harpsrings with unremtting cadeuce,
fall family his from far. And from this bright
world of gadness and melody which is the world Of his
conceptions and therefore of his own creation he
brings forms and beings which his own enhancing
the nations with the new song he sings, and leading
captive BY declaring the n
great poet necessity originates And of great poets
since the beginning Of the world many have appeared,
CLEAN of brightness upon the sable wings Of time Such
Is the soothing and exsatc theory with which modern
poets pour mist OF the wnderful a6sut their verses 30
poets corner" Of some newspaper, underneath four
ssnzas Of jnsing words imsgnes that he has bestow
beauty which eye of had before gayed upon,
and which mortal conception before had figured
poetry which is written must be read Alas for those
who admire originality, that they allowed access to
to the innumerabls books that have been published
that they seek to enjoy too much original poetry and
brought to the sad conclusion that 1t does not exist
1t is an universal complaint among those who have
remember a time when Book they had not read
was whole world of wonders they had not explored
and on the remembrance Of that sunny time they dwell
doatingly, as dreamer cherishes sweet memories of
nous now gone oy ana sealed up forever In the
Wild thrilling exstatc emotions that used to rush upon
them long ago. wnen, OF winters night inc LEGENDARY
side while the winds of winter walled moanngly with
out and the waning lamp burned feebly when leaning
'ney % t @ -. ,h 'aas hsppy
music from an unseen world Whence 1t came, they
knew noS-why cane sney nnsw NOV, pu. slas a. WIS
ent-now they find nothing that thrills them-nothing
that touches thom-nothing new They buy book after
HooS a. anu got,h rs0at;t,o ~ shat thav
nat, s.sie ana m ao sm a;spraa, thor To
nave already lea9 IN ~ many u,nefonI .ht
ays one "a no ohnson snoyyhar ~ Homsr
ever nved ana " 'onnson ssys % mo h
nation after nation century after century mas Dssn
apie 10 40 ntte more tnan slansPUSo iS
n,s crcs have made il their business to dis
cover me slma, passsges ~ .s, @
are edtions OF CLASSICS @ VIII s t
ries explaining tnat tnis ioes vas o
TINS from tnere-tnat mere tns auInor ,s suc
passage OF some pIecsanS wies S.S so T ~
Horace to findar Shakespeare TO Enrpidss soPnoeie.
s .u e. 1870 s t ~nats had IT. or,~ir srron~ Ar
srsnt indvid"sls Of infsror fame How many obscure
ieln s M ntstors Lrino ~ raht =. hav;nS
msi.eI ~ Sus tS; .ss,ot ra..srss he
peen t ~ . athiaas nraSwctons are mere
=; d @ h sowe ai~ Dale Of
pa % s !; nothino atsrsd0tha charactsrs
nothing changed How many Of those rude ballads
now many o. snUse Ma 90 ao arc ;cnrnnrs{ad in
s nat, 40 dasnot in ths realm of poetrv he has
uhofa had xvhi
esscsea len Ruoc Po "s M"sss .bsorh,1g into himself
tS III ;st,c novsr of nature thu feeble instru
WIN tno tisouaso 49,. " -. $500 ~ Ill IN,
ments with which magcians strove TO rival nun.
ana 30 We 'gr. ~ III. Um , ;; ~ s"r,n,s ma
ver rsaS or hearwthout asking whether it may
hot nave oeen .oou a.. -soa,rs a. yh;ch ono
OF tne tnoussno anu one Ts 81 chssn nmb,ica
muse see ol snus h's ye Eli o he forpf which
ton an esssntiai part OF one VIII ~. 20 ~ LIZ.
VIII not also Do ouno W ye ~ s St 10 pasn ~
hye hundred Others ana 70 and
ne ano na.uie IN 'o htvar GO tb.v are viswed
Mnsteves P poe. anu ~ at,,rs and 81 life IA thew
foetry Iepresen'ason % W he thronvb
are, anu VI tney are tney 1 ,,' IN har s,,b
AZ ages .hnn A' The soi;tarv grove on sum.
ILL s.;th a.. c.rnet NJ 0raen grass and the
liz, -,,.r throuoh its deSn cool ahade where
the swavine branches of the gigantic trees murmur
soft and dreamy melody when the south breeze ruses
through them, Is Neutrality-suspicious. Moschus tell bis
oneipgs after it In Greek 1t be painted to the en-
rsptured fancy the touching and simple lay OF the
bard. peasant Burns. The STERN on q sultry summer
aftsrnoon-ths gathering Of black clouds IN
the wsst-ths huge broken-edgsd masses rolling up
ward mountainous In Size and In biackness, as
Ersbus, towards the zsnth-now driving towards
each other, now recoiling now whirling around and
seeming to retreat-then shooting with the winged
speed Of thought far up into the sky-ths thunder
t6s iurd lightning along the dark edges Of the clouds
he wind passing htfuly by whirlng along hgnt reeos
and flying the bursting OF the storm upon
dens-msn's hearts failing them for fear-the peasant
barring cottage door, and with closed eyes falling on
lonely mountain-the gasping mother caspipg her
young child to her nerveess bosom In mute agony,
while the winds rave-the forests are ProstrstedL
fields desolated-" torrents sweued, Sno Inc
"sea in its feaming friths-the terrific gran
deur Of this scene Is the same, whether virgil de-
scribe 1t in hexemeter Latin or It De the OF tne
mountain muse. the wild ravng Ossian. Ana lie, VIII
its exterior vicissitudss and is interior
its extremes Of poverty and It's JOYS for
and for another changes net with the lapse
Of time and dereno" OF iatituds ana the
OF men, acted upon by these vicistuoeS ana maoe up
hAao tnfar
long man Ii man. The feelings OF the human neart
require the same language or their wnener
that heart throbs beneath the shaggy breast OF Gre
clan hero under the steel CLOAK OF kngnt in mes
Of chivalry According 70 the passion ny WHICH !.
stirred, 80 Will be the voice IL ut'ers' "henoV" "no
wherever 1t Is moved
The Language in which Leander, all wet and drip
ming with The water of the Heespon wooed the Sestian
damse to ace whom he had swan quarters Of mile
was the the expressive Of that emotion the
heart as that which is sped by the days.
as The capers nimbly the soft breathings of the ac
81 fa.x hallo of