Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-15
The Poetry of Compliment aad At
fectiOn.


fectiOn.
While the world stands the language of
compliment and affection will have its high
est - sphere and its most pleasing and
dulcet arrangement In the melodies of verse
1t has been so from the beginning, and if
Adam did not tell his love in lyric poetry, it
was in speech wonderfully like it. The
sweetest and tenderest poets of all time have
not only told their own loves and sung the
praises of the fair ones whom they have
loved. in the most beautiful rhymes, but their
verses have furnished the fowery and fra
grant expression OF thousands of hearts which
have been touched by the divine fire of atfec-
ton. John Williamson Palmer, known as
the editor of - Folk Songs" has made Sc
Iections of the best of these poems from
wide range of authors and the neat volume
is just published by Ticknor & Fields. The
selections are called - The Poetry of COmpli
ment and Affection and the editor has
culIed the honey from thousand fields of
song Here is one by Thomas Willian
Spencer:
TOO LATE STAYED.
Too late l stayed-forgive the crime.
I-nheeded flew the hours:
How noiseless falls the foot OF Time
That only treads flowers
And who, with clear account, remarks
The ebbings of his glass,
When all its sands are diamond sparks,
That dazzle as they pass:
An, who to sober measurement
Times happy swiftness brings,
When birds of paradise have lent
Their plumage to his wings?
This is a familiar rhyme by Leigh Hunt;
JENNY KISSED ME.
Jenny kissed me when met,
Jumping from the chair she sat in
Time. YOU thief, who love 10 get
sweets into your list, put that in:
say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
>ay that health and wealth have missed me.
say I'm growing dull, but add
Jenny kissed me
Here are two fragmentary specimens Of
delicious Hish love-making, the first by Will
liam Allingham, the second by Samuel Low
O might live together in lofty palace hall,
Where joyful music rises, and where scarlet cur
tains fall
%, might we live together in a cottage mean and
small,
With sods OF grass the only roof, and the only
wall,
.. lovely Mary Donnellyl your beauty's my dis
1t far too beauteous to be mine but I'll never
wish il less
The prOudest place would lit your face, and am
poor and low
But blessings be about you, dear, wherever you
may got
och. hone don't provoke me to do it:
For there's girls by the
That loves me-and more;
And you'd look very quare II some morning you'd
meet
My wedding all marching pride down the street
Trojh you'd open your eyes,
And you'd lie with surprise
To think WASH I you was come to it!
And faith katty Male,
And her cow, 20 bail,
Would jump if I'd say,
Katy Male name the day"
And though you're fair and fresh :, morning in
Hay,
While she's short and dark ike cold winters day,
Yet if you don't repent
Before Easter when Lent
l. over I'll marry for spite
och hone weirasthru!
And when l die for you,
Ny ghost viii haunt you every night.
Here is a single verse full of the intensity
Of love. from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
love.
Unless You muse IA I crowd all day
On the absent face that fixed you;
Unless you can love. a the angels may,
With the breadth Of Heaven betwiIt you;
Unless You dream that his faith is fast.
Through behooving and unbehooving;
Unless you die when the dream is past
o. never call il loving
The volume is to be followed by five others
with the following titles OF Marriage and
Offspring, Of Home and Friends, OF Meet
ing, Parting and Separation, OF Bereave-
ment. Condolement and Consolation