Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-01

years. We would hazard the individual
opinion that they very far surpass any
thing that has yet proceeded from the
gifted pen of their author.
The devotion of Geraint for Enid is thus
expressed
ale compRssed hor with sweet observances
And Worship never leaving her, and grow
PorSotful Of his promise to tho King,
Forgotful of tho falcon and the hunt,
FOrgetful of the tilt and tournament,
Porgctful Of his glory md his nanIe
EOrgatful of his priuccdOIn and his cares.
And this foTgettulncsS was hateful 10 hcr."
He hears through easement, the voice
of Enid, who is singing,
-And as the sweet voice of bird
Heard by the lander in lonely isle.
Moves him TO think what kind of bird It IL
That sings 80 dolicately clear and mako
Conjecture of the plunI1gc and the form:
80 the sweet voice of Emil moved GGriint.'
And made him like man abroad at morn
When the fret limpid note beloved of man
Comes flying over many WindyWaYe
To Britain. and in April suddenly
Breaks from acopPcc. gemmed with green and red,
And he suspends his converse with friend.
Or 1t may be, tho labor of his linnd4
To think or say. "There is the Nightingale
So farod 1t with Geraint.n
There is placid beauty in this which is
unsurpassed:
and Enid lstenCd, brigLtenins sho lay;
III
Parts from bank Of snow, and by and by
Slips into golden cloud, the maiden rose,
And left her maiden couch, and ROBBED h"rselE"
In contrast with the above we may set
Su siN I"'r"'' ''s ''>'V I'N'N'''
"Wild LimOur4.
Borne black horse, like a thunder cloud
Whose skirts are loosened by the breaking storm,
Half ritdon off with by the thing he rode
And all in passion. uttering dry shrek,
Dashed ON GOraint."
The description and smile in the follow
ing arc beautiful. The description is of an
elegant court dress:
"A splcnlid silk of foreign loom,
Where like shoaling sCa the lovely blue
Played into groom, and thicker down the front
With jewels than the Eward wtlIlrOps Of dew
Whenall night long cloud cling to the hill,
And with tho dawn ascending lets theday
strike where it chung; 10 thtckly shone tho gems"
We might go on and make many moro
extracts equally as rich and beautiful as
the above. We Gull few moro bright,
little gems. In one place we hear spoken
of
"A maid so smooth, 70 white, no wonderful
They said light camO from hCr when she moved"
The arts and powers of the coquette are
exquisitely displayed. After burst of
passion, which very nearly displays her
real sentiments, she goes to weeping
charges her lover with cruelty and indif-
ference, then pauses. turns away, hangs
down her head and weep afresh, mean
whilo,
Ellis anger slowly died
Within him. till he lot his wisdom go
For Oase Of heart and half beloved her true"
In the following the very acme of deep
impressive poetic grandeur is attainod.-
King Arthur IA hero in one of the Idyls)
has discovered his guilty vito in a nun
merry. He is heard approaching through
the hall, when she falls from her seat up
on the floor, and
There, with her milk-whitc arms and slnlovyy hair
She made her face darkness from the King
And in the darkness heard hiS armed feCt
Pause By hsri thon came silence, thon voice
Aonotonous and hollow, like Ghost'a,
Denouncing Judgment Gut-thOugh chAnged-the
Kings"
These extracts will show something of
the character of the Poem. Ita chief mer-
it is the extraordinary purity and simplici-
ty of its language. Perhaps no compost
1iou of the same extent in the English
language, comprises more words of Anglo
Saxon origin, or fewer that are derived
from foreign sources. 1t is destined TO
have large influence in the preservation
of the sturdy language of our English an
cestors.