New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-15
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Recent American Poems.
. A BOOK or ROMANCES, LYRICS AND sOnGs'
BY BxYARp TAYLOR. limo. pp 49, BOSTON iSA-
, p0EMs Nv RICHARD HENRY sTopDARD. l2no. Up.
IN Boston Ticknor, Reed Fields.
In placing these two youthful poets 70
rether, we do not intend TO draw parallei De-
tween their respective merits Neither OF them
has vet reached the full consciousness Of his
movers. or has given any production 10 the
world which authorizes us to decide on MS Ute
10 permanent fame. Each, we think, has ex-
hibited rich promise OF future Achievements ;
each shows that his lips have been toucheo py
the sincere spirit of song and 1t IS not 100
friendly aucury to predict that such hrst-iruits
az each has presented will be followed by har-
vest Of ripened and abundant beauty.
The leading poem in Mr. Taylor's volume is
entitled the Romance of Maize" and Is found
ed on legend preserved in Mr. Schoolcraits
/" Algic Researches" 1t is one OF the NEST elas-
crate performances of the author with frequent
felicities of diction adorned with chaste and ap-
propriate imagery and containing passages oil
n
exquisite poetry Take the following picture OF
THE RETURN OF SPRING.
The anxious crisis of the Spring was past, =,
And warmth was master DER the lingering colu'
The alder's catkns dropped the maple cast
His crimson bloom, the willows downy gold
Blew WIDE and softer than squirrePs ear
The white oaks foxy leaves began appear
There was motion in the soil sound
Lighter than falling seeds shook out OF MOWERS
hall hera ad aOdQeD
Repressed the eager grass and there for hours
Osseo lay and valnly strove to bring
Into his mind the miracle OF Spring.
The wood.birds knew it, and their voices rang
Around his lodge; with many Dart ana WHIT
OF saucy Joy, the shrewlsh cat bird sang
Full throated, and ne heard the klnghsher,
Who from his God escaped with rumpied crest,
And the white medal still upon his breast
The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks
A scarlet rain the yellow violet
Sat in the chariot OF It's leaves the phlox
Held spikes Of purple fame in meadows wet,
And all the streams with veYnal scented reed
Were fSinged and streaky oelis Of miskodeed'
The piece called Love and Solitude is in a
more ambitious vein, showing a holder flight OF
the agination, and rare mastery OF the deep
est elements of passion for the purposes of po-
etry. We quote the words of the happy lover
when dreaming of
AN ENCHhNEED
We 70 that Island soul and voice will be,
When (rapturous hour the battling quest Is over,
The boat 10 wrecked, the ship Is blown to sea,
And unde meath the palm uee's cover
We bless our God thai lie hath left us free.
Then, wandering through the inland delis Iers,
Where sun ana dew have built their gorgeous bow
The golden, blue, and crimson flowers
Will drain In JOY their spicy wells,
The lily toll her alabaster bells
And some fine influence unknown and sweet,
precede our happy feet
Around the Isle, i'll all the life that dwelis
In leaf and stem shall feel 1t, and awake.
And even the pearly -bosomed shells
Wet with the foamy kiss Of lingering swclls.
Shall roster beauty at our coming take,
For Loves dem cake.
There when, like Aphrodite Morn
From the ecsistic waves IS born,
The chefAin Palm, that tops each mountain cIss''
Shall feel her glory glld his scaly grsavcs,
Aud lin his gllttering leaves
Lake arms 0utspread TO take her to his breast
Then shall We watch her slowly bend, and fold
The Island in her arms OF gold,
Breathing away the heavy balms which crept
All night around the bowers, and hitting up
Each Bowers enameled cup,
To drink the sweetness gathered while IL slept
Yet on our souls Joy more tender
Shall gently sink, when sunset makes the sky
One burning sheet Of opalescen, .plendor.
80" dss"'v'~~ rainbQws lie,
No whisper shall disturb
That alchemy superb,
Whereto our beings every sense SURRENDER
O. long and sweet, while sitting SIDE BY sds'
Looking across the Western sea,
That dream Of Death, that morn OF Heaven shall be
And when the shadows hide
Each dying flush, upon the auiet ude,-
Quiet as as cur love-
We 6rst shall zee the stars come out above,
And after them, the slantng beams that run
Based on the sea, far up the SHINING Track
OF the emblazoned Zodiac,
pyramid of light, above the burned sun
There shall cur lives to such accordance grow
As love-love true as ours-alone an hnow
Can never know but there:
Each within each Involved, Ike Light ana All,
In endless marriage. Earth VIII NIL
Her bounteous lap with all we ask OF Earth,
Nor ever drought or ceath
Shrink the rich pops of vale and hull.
Content at last the missing tone TO hear
Through all her Summer chords,
Which makestheu tAllssruns harmony complete
In her deiishtedea
Shall to our hearts that harmony repeat
Led by the strain, II may be ours 10 enter
The secret chamber where she works alone
With Color Form and Tone,
In human mood, or, Steiner grown,
Takes hold on powers that shake her fiery center
Year AFTER year the Island shall become
A fsirsr and serener home,
And happy children, beautiful as Dawn,
The future parents OF tass
Whose purer eyes shall face to face
Look on the Angels, I'll our place, lgons
And be the Presence and the Soul when we nav
"Hylas," which has been extensively COPE
from the Magazine in which II originally appeal
ed, is rich, sensuous version Of classics
myth, finished with u minute nicely Of expires
sion, which forms an effective contrast with tn
bold and glowing character OF The scene. "Kus
ieh," has all the fire and impetaosity OF tn
children Of the desert, on whose customs
is founded. Mr.. Taylor is bold rider, and j
always inspired by the vision OF gallant stsed
Here is the beautiful Arabian animal, which wei
deserves the apo,heosis OF verse;
Far in the southern sands, the hunters say,
Did Sofuk 6nd her. BY lonely palm.
The we'll had dried her 6erce, impatient eye
Glared RED and sanksn, and her slight young limbs
Were lean with thirst lie checked his camels pace
And while u kneis, united the wa'er-skln,
And when the Wild marc drank, she followed him.