New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-07-16
ORIGINAL POETRY.

rbere waa an old apothegm Poeta nascit,r nss H.
afirnntng that it to write poetry who has mot
se divine satus born in him Many, nevertheless for
whom the Gods prepared seat Psrnassus and
10 whom Pegasus Is strange steed that roams
the Ukraine determined to force for themselves
position among the old immortas and to stradde the
winged HORSE If he has TO be ridden We
regret many efforts to scale the rocss that are
ha7d-to up and many utess endeaVors to
hold ON to the untamed horse manes and tall They
come under notice. however, and compel recognition
Most Of the odes ana epio that reach US go into the
basket and thence into the grstehus lighting the world
ia oe way If not another. Sometimes, however, our
are greater Than deposit and sometimes the
peculiar their excellence is such demand
notice ii not publication Within the last week or two
poetio dysentcy to have broken out all sides OF
Us ana bdes epics lyrics nadrgss cpitaphs and epitha
sinsuns the order Of the day We forced TO
sali Hines Of old hut sensible poem which says
III ~ How very absurd is half the stuff,
B4gs Called poetry, nova days.
The g stanxas,n and sepics,,i are enough
10 put every lover Of rhyme in . huff, M
3sS And disgust the old hens with their slays,n
There's one insists Upon being biri,n IS,
70 ely to his ady-love's bower T.
But he knows that the sisdys W whom hereferr'd
Den'texn saoh y thing: for upon ny World
5 In yaller y house, up in story thethird,a
She is living at this very hour sa.
Ono asks bnt a. cave In some foreign del, -
Away from the cold worlds strife
b
But give him q six weeks rainy SPELL
"a And he'll aeon cave In Win bis forest cell,
And be sick enough Of the life. 4st4S s&
Another would g die end be laid in q dell
Beneath some nlurmuring riLp gW5 Az
Nov, in poetrys Jingle, it's nice to tell -tss
| But It's Nasty vet place !-so wbynot so wells
Have nice dry grave on q hilifs ~
One loyes-how be foyes .--s the glitterng foam, <
II ,Sq And this mad waye's angry strife. 2
| just take the young genius who wrote the poem,
4 Where ne pillows dash and the seal birds roam, "
Andhe5d give all he had to be safely at home
Held stay there tho rest Of his life 5e.ss
Since the publishing Of this ourgetion with regard 10
poetry new scnool has been established not like the
Lake School or the Della Cruscan but purely and
markedly original Native American the which deals
in niger sentimentsiities Its chief excellence is its
panness sentiment and expression and the more than
phonetic Independence that characterzes its ortho
There maybe an occasional imperfacton in the meer
and sometimes too frequent repetition Of Aexandrines
but the rougnesa and crudty that attend its conception
and execution serve well oils to the too exquisite poll
sh Of such pdsas This Cuban Soldier and act in the
Erhytbfaca department lemon with olives in the cult
nary Kingdom We give specimen Of this school
addressed to
a The stse1n skwirt
ssupendoous stsem pump Yea suck: fcu
Il. Draw up, and skwirts water on the raging =
and deyoweting, element ceumoaiy knone as
Fire And suckseat In kwenching The aforesaid,
Stupenacowus 5teem pump.
| wonderful Infantiis Water Works. You have
Superseded the laboreous efforts of indi-
diViduals TO perfect hand pumps! And you
s Nov stand ent in bass reiepIs to the enemy 81
OF Flame. Bekause you Away come out frst best
Wonderful Infantle Water Works.
stesm Fire Engine-your useful You Gf5s
uee wood and hoel-you make lg
L I sig noise with your whistle and
al Yesl leave ssreeh of fire behind you r \ Al
in the streat But steem Fire Ingine your
Useful Your trump. Go on r4SsJs,.,ss +
DO ON Steetn Fire Ingine.
ss-5 Go on-sGrate old skwirk. {S 2a - 80
IA night OF the great sixty pound hump Of gold
since be chiefly eadinspred another bardiing