New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-03
LOVE POETRY.

Every feeling has its peculiar development cor
responding in degree to the character and intensity
Of the passion Anger makes itself evident By Of
oaths and good hard blows jealousy through the nstru
mentality Of atehfunsss and Witness mirth by laugh
ter and grief by tears It seems that the universal pas
aon--ovsteiag elcdious uitsef get to light only
through melody and that he who is badly stricken the
little god will take to rbymng naturally fish to
swimming. Petrarch sang whole bookfull concerning
Laura Shakespeare worked his mistress into blank
Byron drew his with thousand nice touches mali
wrote thousands Of other great names in tmes be-
and since have the universal
With this fact we have fault to End. Men and wo-
will undoubtedly continue losing their in
admiration Of the and beauty OF Others and having
thus deprived themselves Of judgment will go into love-
poetry with desperation SMILES expanding
adjeetyes like water apostronhizng the sum- moon and
stars digging flowers and playing che dickens gensr-
ally with every thing that has the remotes re-
etion their sghings There have been some
sensible old gentlemen who, desiring partner their
bed vis-avis their board plainly stated the
feet and embarked on joint life voyage much as they
would embark on canal boat 57}sd g5E
It told of old Matthew Byes-hsaven rest his loyal
he took the lady whom he wished to make
supreme his domestic matters through his house, show
ing her its eommodiousness aud them turning abruptly
around, said y ana Matthew Byles-ifty-three years
lor Will you marry e?n And she olave unto him
Old Timothy Dexter"Lord Dexter,'' as he styled him
sc-eynced the warmth Of his love by sending its object
warming pRn-the valuable instrument he shipped
largely to the West Indies and made fortune from
the natives taking them to be strainers for molasses
knight of the middle ages gave tbs forgetmenot its
by sacrificing bis life to obtain for his Ducna
wight of times past fell upon his sword, that, while
breathing out his e he might have to breathe
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instances too for specification and will sug
geat themselves with sufficient readiness to the memories
Of all. There hardly be manner means for de-
plotting the emotions of the heart that has not been
adopted, at some time another by some swain whose
passion could ITSELF Corydons with inserb
ing hopes treetrunks and appealing to Aaarylls for
reciprocity in the tredeof tenderness
Ths method most prevalent at the present time-the
which upercedes all the Others and rules by ITSELF in
certain class, is wholly poeca consists of trochees,
daetys sapphcs, and sometimes 1noat fearful Alsxap-
drines The wounds inflicted by Cupid being beyond the
Of Lehe, assistance is sought to be derived
from Parnassus and the Pieran fount Every little god,
and all the tuneful Nine invoked Apollo proeed
Tove offerings, and the chaste Diana such hoocausts
not the Argonauts swore to- Cupid shall have his
bow reg and his CULVER restoeked In fact every di-
yinity Who either directly indirectly has to do with
billing and cooling and the bily-dux order of things is
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duplicated.
All this is rythmical Plain prose is no sufficient faucet
for mental disbursement Love and doyebliss and kiss
only reach the necessities Of the OCCASION although
the sentiment when stripped Of the tawdry and
false gliding which the Mysteries OF Udopho Sorrows
Werter and volumed love epcs ascrbe to it, is
about plain and practical old Timothy Dexter, or
worthy Matthew Byles medeit. Itmeans life
nershipa division of and compound mutpli-
cation of pleasures 1t means such addition Of joy
subtraction of grief only typical in the
rable stories of David and observation-disclosures and Polux
speaks Of home happiness domestic peasure
of reasonable, human and humane sentiment which, in
its growth and entire development carries mankind
towards the stars it privileged to in this lower
sphere and first plane Of being That there is
Of reality in the growth and fon of the continent,
every ones experience less markedly etess
but that romance is gold and not gifts solid rather
than superficial Tt has to do with reality much
than fancy and needs pork and beans stay far
than sunshine flowers any amount Of the usual poetry
that is supposed to embody it. ...- ----.E
If the world actually governed by Pan, and the
dryads had real habtations EARTH perhaps of
the fowery daeyls would be in better place than they
under the age of iron which exists. This Areadian
imaginngs have been found In accordance with
the facts There must be great change before Utopia
shall have thaa prefgurement here As the
timent therefore, is rea let it be really treated
lesqued and put level with the comic opera. Let
those who put the cooring do it with ne artistic
and real TASTE with that wild and exaggerated fancy
which from the MOON and carries the evidence
its origin with it. Those who have had the highest
pness have here have been plain PRACTICAL yea
and nay have considered life fact rather than
bright fancy The plain testimony of the past should
teach writer's of the present. that in order to
their copies good to the original less csruean color
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mind that here, 4" of the earth-earthy'' how
divine soever development shall ba by and bye.