New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-10


To merry dancing tune
ask Of thee no wonders
No changing white or red
I dream not thou art living,
love and prize thee dead.
That salataTy dsadness
seek through want and pain,
From which God own high power can on
Our virtue rise again.
The life-phiesopby, which these poems set iorA ma
great variety of applications Is the s'oeal wisdom q
remuneration Never vas the discrepancy between .hs
infinite longirgs OF the soul and the seaniy resources
Of nature illustrated in such mOurnfal numSers"
Hope nothing from life, is the melancholy lesson
which our sibyl procl@ms perPetaAly IN an almost
Dsntean ausesy Of phrase. The following inee ees-
prise the essence OF her apOcalyPtc teachings.
FNTBrHREN.
Oh happy he waO never held
In trembling arms form adOred,
Oh happy he who never yet
On wOrshiped hps love kisses poured
Though worn in weary ways Of though,
Thy lonely soul eat pilgrim bread
though smiling Beauty in Thy path
Her banquet OF dels hts should spread,
And bare to thee her rosy breast
And pour for thee the golden wine
That throDgs thy brain with visions eesg.
Each than the last more iny thine
lis but the phantom of an hour
That fades before thy waxing glance
And not that high IDEAL II thought
Which forms the bounds OF hope and snhntt-
Bind Dot the giant Of the soul
By boo;less % a chain,
Whose letters pressing elose.
Its uobler growth shall rend in twain
The Infinite, that sees thus
Mold its trauscendeut form in clay,
1rampes our idol into dust
And we afgesh must seek and pray
And thou shalt suffer TO be free
But most shall suffer a. De bound,
Pour, then, the cup OF thy desire
An Offering upon holy grOund.
Blended with the keynote of sorrow and self saeri-
Zee, there occasional strains of divine tenderness,
aud at rfrequent intervals the Peusive melody Of tho
TOetess is diversified with the ringing sounds Of auda'
ciOus satire. Wee TO the victims who are made 10
wrthe under tie trenchant of her fiery rebuke
Several OF the most elaborate pieces suggested by
the recOlectiOus Of Rome. While the sad contradict
lens of the Eternal City tOu'h the writer with pro-
found 81 mpaiby she gathered rereshment and strength
from t. mOtherly nhut which she does not fail tn
con mOrate in Der most pleasing verses The piece
entitled Wherefore the fate KOssuth, ia marked
BY great originality Of conception. and energy Of
preston almost terrible "WhitSunday in the Church,'
with reminiscence Of Emersons Problem" ia an
imprisoned cutlery for the restoration of primitive
Christianity Mind versus Mil Scream" ID parable,
which gives its own explanation without the moral,
that might as well have been left TO the intuition Of
the reader. A daring flight is attempted in thoughts
at the Grave of ElOsa and Abelard aiming at the pas
SOL al significance of the great domestic tragedy Of tho
Middle Age. In the Tribute to a Faithful Servant
gush OF natural feeling gives exquisite pathos 10
the whole composition. But we not stop 10 par
tcularze amoDg these poems, each of which has tho
marks of unmistakabe genuneness-a product wrung
with tears and prayer from the deepest soul OF tho
writer. Scarce a volume can be named so free from
imitayeness showing so little of the influence Of
other minds wholly original revelation of pecu-
liar and most suggestive experience. Whatever its
merits or defects, they wholly the authors own
We 90 not anticipate its sudden accession to a wide
popularity 1t is too intense, too subjective too pro-
OuDdly earnest aud sad to win the applause Of the
multitude. But no amateur of human passion viii
hesitate to recognize in it the workings Of great and
noble SOUL whose self trubfulness gives fresh glory
to rare gifts In this fact the writer may find pledge
of the granting of the boon which she TREMENDOUSLY
duplicates in her Sautatory"
Ere this mystery Of Life
Solving scatter it, form to air.
Let me feel that have lived
In the music of prayer
In the Joy Of generous thought,
Quiekening, enkindlng soul from soul
In the rapture of deeper Faith
Spreading its solemn sweet control