Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-03-19


And grouping palm spread shelter from the heat
Far-far away, beside gloomy hearth,
Where feebly the fading embers burn,
The hourly sire and she whu gave thee birth
Heart-brOEen wait to welcome thy return =
God shield thee hapless strageer from the n"cS
And hide thee now within the S1adoV 81 the H0cS!
There are two or three other poems, if our space
allowed that We should like to copy entire, but re-
stricted as we are by time and space, we propose
now to place before the reader n few segregated
passages and entire stanzas, which we fear at last
will fall far short of affording him fair, and Just
idea of our authors real merit, as did the brick
which the simpleton carried, fail to furnish true
of the size OF maguifcence OF the edfce
he was offering for SALE To appreciate these poems
they must be read ,ohOte-must he seen IN the
of their symmetrical outline. but 10
the excerpts .r...a
"Where zprhyrs WOO with plaintve signs
From :. Ice Gnrn.y tie Roses
"Oh, ,rRrys shall rest be found? hslormy tide
Is rushing madly onward to the sea;
Immortal spirits down the current glide
into Eternity.
Thrice happy he! to whom the change of time
And tide may leave one solitary rucS-
Az ARAFAT, eternal amt sublime,
UusiIaken by the sh0ck;-
A HopE OF HEAVEN, whose summit in the skies,
THE only refuge of ruined Taeel
Smiles through the stnrm-thc swelling surge ueueS
AL" ''-1'' '~''' F;cn 'lE.ps Of Rtare0."
g. Brighter than the sparkling bow
Whose sky-bOrn SpendUrs sat
Like gems upon the regal brow
From. To L.EP."
"Lost-los. indeed his heart must be
His way h0lg dark with danger,
Whose hoSded eve may never see
The Star aJors the EsdHg-F.
From Tie Ss1r ADORE TIE mango"
"Come gentle Sleep! and hitl er bring to me,
The beetles drone-the buZZing OF the bee
All slumbruuS sounds which Silence loves 10 hear
Which steal like balm into the drowSy ear;
Let summer rain fall softly from the caves
While fragrant zephyrs whisper though Tue leaves
From "Ode t. Sleep
"Sprits communirg with the skies,
Eron, JTO!sts"
"He Who unfurs the flag Of Pah,
Must march hero in The fGat-
Must be himself mau! ~
ain vain may stalwart foes assail,
The champion Of RIgL:
Fur paUoped in triple mail
The true of heart never fall
Are never put TO fight! NJ,
"Mv hopes are songs, siren sung,
Ard flowers her fairy fingers flung
Upon a rock, 10 which they Cungi
They buUmed in beauty there,
Then persisted i'll its Alpine AIR,
And nor that rock is bare and bleak;
TIE Hacisa SLunS its haggIrk pelE,
And he who haUnts the lonely shore,
Shall hear the siren sing more"
Fran " by III pes Ike naming HGtcf: frts gSo'r
We close our extracts with stanza from poem
by the times:
Tear down that flag Its skies to sable turn;
Fast fades each stripe of pure celestial white,
Its pickering stars TO sparkling euberS burn,
lis Eagle skulks the light.
vuure now, he wings his sluggish flight
To nestle with the nUiSoIne birds OF night
From - Ieur dOVH that Flag
The Song of the Butterfly" st Valentines
no. anil n
handling The conception in each is very delicate
and beautiful They remind one of Rodman brakes
"Culprit Fay" or Hoods plea of the Midsummer
Fairies" The "Anacreontic" brings out graphi-
cally the terrible compunctIons and undying thirst
that preys upon the poor inebrate; whilst Clouds
with Silver Innings" and Taking Snooze" are
really charming in their originality and freshness
the first being witty as well poetcal, whilst the
latter shows that the author excels in description.
There are many others of much merit which We
cannot now characterize.
The modeSty Of the author is comrnendable-
This is in the very sententious Preface, and
in the motto which is placed in the title page.
This motto, by the way, is a sweet stanZa by
forgotten English poet. Although Thomas Glib
bonS, like very many others, failed to secure name
as poet among those writers who survive their
own generation, he was afterwards honored with
the Presidency of Princeton College, New Jersey,
eide President Davies sermonS.) We omitted NEIL
tioning that Mr.. Hill is resident, and We believe,
a native of Raleigh. The Poems published by
Strother & Maroon, in very neat style.
The South has heretofore patronized Northern
publications to the exclusion of her own-has re-
warded with her smiles the efforts of Yankee adj
venturers, whilst her own men of genius have Ian
guished in Obscurity, and perhaps dragged out
life of perjury and suffering. 1t will not be difficult
to find scores of Southern men Of education and
ability, who familiar with the writings of n P.
Willis G. P. Norris and other authors of fifthrate
poetic power-(of course they know all about those
brighter Northern lights LOngfellow, DANA Bry-
ant, ct id omne genuS,) but who know absolutely
nothing about Wilde, GraySon Hayne, and other
writers who are ornament to 'the South-nay it
is not improbable that these names are wholly un-
known to them We trust that when under Gods
blessing, shall have secured our political and
commercial independence that with this achieve
ment shall also secure our literary independence
too. We have been too long-greatly too long trib-
utary to the North, and to shame be it record
ed, we have been almost entirely dependent for our
mental pabulum upon its hostile and corrupt bblo-
poles The result has been, Southern authors have
in the main been unrewarded and unappreciated,
and Southern publications have languiShed for a
few years. ekiDg out an unhappy existence and
then died at last in the midst of plenty. Let US
take warning from the past; let us patronize our
own Colleges and Schools; let US sustain our own
P"P'i'' e@ElaI auu TeISlouS, IeI Us oullu up anu
foster our own literature, and let US reward with
smiles OF approval and cheer with our dollars the
| gifted literary men of every State whether they
hail from the "mother of States and statesmen !;
from staid, honest, modest inhexible North Carroll
ma from the land of the Palmetto, or from Texas
with her broad praires and golden streams, or from
any other of the noble sisterhood This is the way
to establish literary embargo, and the only way
II any literary claimant appears who can throw
around rich teeming thought o noble garuitrre- o
words, and thereby charm and control those whc
may give HIM audience; or if h1 be the art Il
body forth" his thoughts in language of exqusit,
beauty and finish, and in metrical arrangement; Of
II he have sufficient acquaintance with the Muse o
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