Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-01-12
HAYNES POEMS.

AvoLIo . a Legend OF the IstdHd O Cos, WaN
--PAem..- -LairieaL -HiaealGnso.s and Drs"aatc
By PAUL H. HAYNE.
| If the embodiment of q cultivated taste, . fer.
tile fancy, and rich and vigorous imagination, il
verse that flows, now sweety as the willow-lov'
ing brooks, and now majestically as the crush
ing, mighty river" be Poetry, then we claim fol
Mr.. HAYNE the honored name Of Poet. We
have read his volume through and through, with
heart-warm pleasure. Not that we have dis.
covered no ill-selected word-no unfelcitous line
no prosy paragraph, no entire poem even'
which wants the chastened vigor Of Mr.. HAYNE's
usual mood but in spite of an occasional blem.
ish, the volume before us is a proud contribution
to American Literature.
Avol:o, the first and 10 ngest poem in the book,
is founded on the legend of "the Daughter Of
Hippocrates, to be found in Leigh Hunts Indca-
tor. To this wild and beautiful legend the i'm
acination of our Poet has added several new
incidents, besides endeavoring to give to the NOR.
rative cast more purely ideal" He has admi-
raby succeeded in this bold and daring effort
The introduction of Actaeon and the "Song of
the imprisoned Naiad ;''Ithe "preternatural land
scape," and the very grasses instinct with "hor-
rid lfe," give to the poem an air of weirdness
and ideality, indescribable.
The three Odes which follow this-"To Sleep,"
on "Art and on "Nature the Consoler, while
they possess different degrees Of merit, all be-
long to high order Of poetry. The first and
the last of these are wel-nigh rivals for our ad-
miration. They are full of sweetness and senti-
ment. But the Ode on Art is our favorite of the
three There is stern grandeur and unAag-
cing creativeness of imagination-a facility of
diction and melody of verse-in this Ode, which
stamp it one of "the marble poems" We quote
o single passage, descriptive of Raphael -
Next Raphael comes with calm and starlike mien
Fresh from the Beatifc Ecstacy,
His face how beautiful, and how serene
Since God for him the awful veil had riyen,
That shrouds Divinity
And rolled before his wondering mind and eye
Visions that WE should gaze on butt die!
The Sonnets-which come next in o body
are we'll executed and rank high among this spe-
cies of composition. We venture to quote one
which we think beautiful, and which we have moi
seen quoted elsewhere -
Along the path thy bleeding feet have trod,
o Christian Mother do the martyryears,
Crowned with suffering THROUGH THE MIST OF TEARS
UPL1FT THEIR BRows- THoRN.cIRcLED - UNTO
GOD
Most bitterly our Fathers Christening rod
Hath ruled within thy term Of mortal days,
Ye7 in thy soul spring up the tones of praise,
FREELY AS FLOWERS FROM OUT A BURIALsoD:
Nor hath tireless Faith essayed In vain
To win from sorrow that diviner rest,
WHICH, LIKE A SUNSET, PURPLISa THROUGH THE
OF DYING STORMS, MAKETH THE DARKNESS BLEsT;
Grief Is ,ransfgured, and dethroned Fears
Pale in the glory beckoning from the West.
The Small Capitals are our own.
OF the miscellaneous pieces we would not diff,
fer widely from the taste of the Edgefeld AaUer'
tise,, which is as follows:-
"l) The song. Flu, swifily Fly; (2) The Tpo
mmers ; (3) The Village Beauty; az The Pic,
ture Of 4 Beautiful Death; (6l The Eve q,
The Bridal; (6) The VIII And The Wing"
Between l and 2 we would make room for
Palingenesis 2 and 8, for "FlOwsr' from
Craze - and between and 5 for "Queen Gale
NM "The Presentiment," son Portrait u
"Hsre Long Ago" and 80! your eyes are deep
ana TENDER" deserve place somewhere among
these but we cease to Gull and compare, lest we
should lay half the volume before our readers
as deserving the first place.
Mr.. HATSE has done himself great credit in
his dramatic fragments. Antonio Melidori is the
longest and most perfect piece given. When we
read "oueen Galena' and "The Island of the
South, we were struck with their dramatic force;
when we read this fragment, we were convinced
that Mr.. HAYNES genius is truly dramatic
Though Antonio's character is q little crippled
in the turning point of the catastrophe, the truth
full and happy delineation of his wandering
mind" in the close, calls back that interest IN