Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-11-11

done by bold and manly issue, not by tims-serving
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Notices of New Rocks.
The Courtsp Of Miles stndls and other Poems ~ Henry Wad
worth Longfellow Boston, Tecknor & Reas Publ hers
s'The Poets genius says an old writer, lie like
unto a goblet Of vine The best part escapeth FIRST
Whatremainethi is stale. heavy and insipid" Adopt
ing this comparison Professor LOngfelIOWs genius
has eYaporsed to the very dregs. No trace Of that
fine, subtle, srel like Imagination which perysded
his earlier productions eau be detected in the volume
now before u.s. The Courtship Of Miles Stsndish'
is plain old Puritan legend written with Mr. Long
fellows characteristic elegance Of STYLE which ap
pears even in the hating hexameter of this Poem
The story is gracefully told but it has none of that
deep poetic spirit which lends such wild and weird
beauty, to some of his former poems We are really
sorry to see such exquisite art and consumate skill
wasted upon work of 50 little merit. Z" Matsyiem
sgpsva5at opus" The execution is greatly superior
to the matter. Some fine thoughts are of course
scattered through the pOsm and there is one line of
surprising beauty. 1t is almost the only one out of
several thousand which the admirer Of Mr.. Long
\ fellow would care to remember and we close our re
marks on Miles Standish by quoting the passage in
which it occurs. The author is describing the new
made bride on the way to the home of her husband
Onward bridal procession moved to their new
Happy husband and wife and friends converting together
Pleasantly the brook ford forest
Pleased ot TIE image that passed like dream Of tro'
its bosom.
Some of the shorter poems in the volume are very
beautiful and are worthy of the author of "The
/ Voices of the Night.
The work is elegantly, bound and printed as are
all of Messrs TicknOr and Fields publications. For
sale by Messrs W. T. BERRY & Co.
The Poetea Works Of Fz Greene Haeck New Edition New
York D. Appleton and Company, Publishers 1858.
The Poems of Halleck are worthy the elegant
dress in which Messrs. Appleton and Company have
presented them. They have already taken their
place among American classics, and Marco Bozzaris,
popular in every cline, is recited in the language
of Homer among the isles of the Aegean Halsck
has written some Of the finest poems in the Ian
guage, and he. has never written anything unworthy
his genius and his fame. We cannot resist the
temptation TO quote a few verses from some Of his
shorter poems. The following lines on the death of
Joseph ROdman Drake are exquisitely beautiful:
sreen be thetu above thee
Friend Of my better days
None knew thee but to love thee
Nor named thee but to praise.
When hearts whose truth was proven
Like thine laid in earth,
There should a wreath be
To tell the world their worth.
And L who woke each morrow
To clasp thy hand in mine,
Who shared thy joy snd SORROW,
Whose veal and woe were thine:
It should be mine to braid it
Around thy faded brow,
But I've in vain essayed il,
and feel cannot
While memory bidsm weep thee,
Nor thoughts nor words are free,
The grief is fixed too deeply
That mOurns man like thee.
The flowing is gem which is, or should be,
universally admired:
The world is bright before thee
Its summer flowers thine,
Its calm blue sky is Ger thee,
Thy bosom pleasure shrine;
And thi the sunbeam given
To natures morning hour,
Pure, warm when from heaven
1t burst on Edens bower.
There is a song Of sorrow,
The de tth dirge Of the gay,
That tells ere dawn Of morrow,
These charms may fade away,
That suns hight beam be shaded,
That sky be blue MORE
The summer flowers he faded,
And youths warm promise Ger.
Believe it nOt-though lonely
Thy evening home may be
Though Beauty's bark only
Feat on summer
Though Time thy bloom is stealing,
There's still beyond his art
The wid-dOWeT wrea b Of feeling,
The sunbeam Of the heart.
Mr.. Haleck has written invariably so well, that
We regret he has written so little. No fault be
found with this elegant volume except that it is not
larger.
For sale by W. 7. BERRY Co.