New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-05-13
Death Of Amelia.

is with no ordinary that record the dealt
Of Mrs Amelia B. Welby, the celebrated poetess the 81
| inst. at Louisville Ky
was our good fortune to know this gifted lady long
and intimately. Our acquaintance with her commenced
prior to the publication of any those poems which have
since rendered her familiar household word in thu
land She was then an sAprihearted thing of some
sixteen summersa gay and Joyous creature-and little
did those in familiar intercourse with her. imagine thai
she would accomplish than the ordinary destiny
of her sex. We well remember with what doubts and
fears she sent her first song the senior Editor of the
Louisville Journahimsef Of the most gifted poets
our country boasts ofand with what pleasure she well
coined her rstng clothed in the dignity of print En-.
couraged by the discriminating praise Of distn-
gushed in the world of letters she induced to continue
these publications In the language her early friend
poem followed poem in rapid succession, each tee-
ing with fresh wild thoughts expressed in verse of the
| most delicious harmony
At that period she almost entirely unacouainted
with even the literature of her own country but her
at once one of Its proudest ornaments and
notwithstanding she had read but very of the smaller
works Of the great masters Of song she at once
mitted into the inner teple' one Of its worthiest
votaries Melody after melody gushed from the heart Of
the minstrel-girl, and wild, simple and uncultivated
though they they found response in every heart
atuned to the melodies Of nature She was not long and
came to her almost unbidden if not uucared for The
light of her glorious poetry at recognized as
that of true nspirationt at overowed the land
scattering its sunshine into shady giving its
beauty to the its glory to the fower She touched
her harp and its strains sweet the musc of the
spheres' joyous the song of birds in "forests
wde,' and at times melancholy the sghings of the
wind through forest of pnesw every where received
with delight by thousands Of admirers.
Her home became the resort of many of the most dis
ngushed in literature and art in the country Pilgrim
ages made from afar to that Mecca of Song The
City Of the Falls was not visited by strangers who did
not wish to see the minstrel the melody whose harp
had reached their in distant lands Tributes of adj
miration in and prose poured in almost every
quarter eager to do honor to one who had done
much honor to the literature of her country We re-
member being present evening when surrounded by
some of the first poets and wits of the day Ole Bull was
presented to her He improvsed his admiration of her in
of his most beautiful compositions-the inspiration of
the momenand most appropriate beautiful tribute
was from the great interpreter of melody to of the
most gifted children of song For several years she has
ceased publishing her poems but learn has continued
writing and leaves behind her large humble of songs
which hope will be published shortly She is now we
believe universally acknowledged of the first wo
men Of the landher productions known and admired
wherever the lands language is known.
Alas that harp, upon whose melody thousands hunr
is hushed foreveis music note has died
upon the air That star whose bright light wandering
down from its far home to the dim miss earth beaconed
so many on their lone pilgrimage has faded into the sky
and, like the lost Pleiad.'' will be seen no more,
She is gone home the Moravians write it in their beam
sfu epltaphs And surely If ever there spirit of
earth prepared for that home it hers Kind aiabe
md gentle, she was devoted wife hearted friend
,eormng well all the ministrations life allotted to her
Nd IN acu,x,rr !