New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-26
BOSTON.
LITERARY NOTES.

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$50. ,-0oN, THE OLD DRAMATIsTs, EDiIEp
nv mrs. RICHARDsON-LA FARSE
TRATIoNs-MRs. FoRDs BOoh. .,,v rpmuNEI
.r.on A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT VI - ooiIec-
RosroN. Oct. 24-It is rare W NV 40 .songs
atom on verses so dainty and so eHqusio tchton Of
nsm tne O' s 49, ore about 10 publish. The volume
s,,ea NV Mrs Abby sage Richardson @loN"s S'u-On .
- the Elisabethan literature. she says ~ 90 ,ro
- that she commenced her ooleeuoh oi 'hoS
- hong ago for her Own personal P'caS"e' -
- her little extract book somueh that she IosoNeu
r'yy - - ,orger and more complete. She has, IN mos.
ases taken her gems intact from the pouS VI ,e
1,lsb drama or else found them among ''o =,
80 of the dramatic poets, VINO VIZ an
Init Of interspersng their plays WI"
- We should treasure these on-'Ho -.
% ,,oro Mrs Richardson thinks, because the Hie
80 Of the present day write so few songs o'n.O
t,me Of Charles H., there have oeeh haI"'S ""' 20
80 who we're Singers. We are 100 Seilou'' 40"
SaVs TO carol like the birds, as the e"ry -
49, ornine of poesy The publishers OF TINS oook nav
- ther mart in making for these jewels h'uhs
..shot The paper and printing are une1cepuon"oo,
I'D the whole style OF the work is dainty "ha' si
.av Of the drawings with which In farge mas l.u -
t1 They are strong and su ggestiVe ana singular -,
.lse would have drawn these strange s'oIS '0uHe
to.es these curious flowers, these twisted tortuIeu ~
Sncbs, In the picture which illustrates The songs oi
Yaires and Spirits" you would know tha' "nVei my
had a sou even If the winged creature wiz" NJ
voman'e face were not lowering apONo It, az"
,tos ard delicate are the flowers petals how they
.uiyer with expectation In the picture ior inc oonsS
:. poel,po and Songs OF Thought" how sad Is the
,,ou,an whom much thinking has worn and aged' ono
sis there still as fate with gaze which mas zone WIN
hone Above and partly behind her, If placed cnlu'
whose eyes are bright with dawnng' VINO KNOWS
,b,no lint feeling sensation. II is strange CONTRAST
fhe one who read her story through ana come 70 ~
end; the other who has yet TO learn the alph"Oe' ~
bich her ufes tale is written la Fargo draws, as De
paints the souls OF things
Mrs Richardson has divided her verses into seven
portions: Pastoral Songs" Love Songs SONGS Oh
Thouebt and Feeling" "songs OF Sorrow" comic
Songs and Songs Of Clowns" "Bace9anae@n sSnss,
and Songs of Fairies and Spirits" They are followed
~ few pages of her annOtatOns so good that we
could she had given more OF them Her conee-
tOn Of charming old songs is so full that we should Ike
- have il yet increased She gives us for instance
from VIM, Alexander Earl Of Stirling, his sonnet 10
Aurora"
swear, Aurora by thy starry eyes, =, -. .,,x,
And by those golden locks whose lock none slips'
Aud by the coral of thy rosy lips,
And by the naked SHOWS which beauty oyesi
Iswear by all the Jewels Of thy mind,
Whose like yet never worldly treasure ,p pouSSt'
which i'm this darkened age have clearly shlned;
Iswear by those, and by my spOtless love-
That have never nursed but ehaste desires
And such as modesty might well apprOFo'
Then since love these virtuous parts in thee,
sbouidst thou not love this yrtuous mind in met
Fine az that is ike yet better that other ono OF Alex
ander still "To Aurora which she does not give hoaO
- and If you agree with me
ofthou know'st how thou thyself dost harm.
And Gss pTs1aEe Thy 9 5 q9 ee 6 PP Of ny INV BREAST
And thy relenting heart would kindly warm
ontly pride did not our joys control,
What world OF loving wonders shouldst thousee!
For If saw thee once transformed IN me
Then in thy bosom would pour my soul;
Then all nv thoughts should in thy visage shine
Andifthat aught mschanced thou shouldstnotmoan'
No, would have 10Y share In what were thine:
And whilst We thus should make our sorrows one,
This happy harmony would make them ncne'
What grand days those were in which the Dravest
soldiers did disdan TO sing gentlest songs under
fair iady's window-when sonnet natural gift
asarosei But then, the course Of true love had
its difficulties How quantity SIR Charles sedley sang
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From which his mother rose
No time his slaves from doubt can free,
Nor give their thoughts repose
They are becalmed in cearest days
And IN rough weather tossed;
They Wither under cold delays,
Or arc in tempests lost.
One while they seem to touch the port;
Then straight into the main
Some angry vino, III cIneI SPORT
The vessel drives again.
At first Disdain and Pride they fear,
Which If they chance to 'scape,
Rivals and falsehOod soon appear
In a cruel shape
Bv such degrees 10 Joy they come,
And are long wlthstoOd,
SO slowly they receive the sum
II hardly does them good
lis cruel to prolong pain;
Aud 10 defer Joy
Believe me- gentle Celemene,
O6ends the winged boy
A hundred thousand oaths your fears
Perhaps would not remove;
And II gazcd thousand years
could not deeper love-
THOMPSON wrote Of tho charming agonies Of love-"
and they seem to have felt them in the old centuries
EOenly as now. John Dryden said Of Jealousy:
False, in thy glass, all objects arc,
Some sci foo near, and some 100 Tar;
Thou art the fire Of endless night,
The fire that burns, and gives no light:
and Cowley wrote tOihis Love:
Thou robust my days OF business and delights;
or sleep thou robust my nights.
All lovely thief, what wilt thou do
What, rob me OF my Heaven! tool
Thou even my prayers dOst steal from me-
And l. with wild idOlatry,
Begin to God, aud end them all to thee.
tsita SIN TO love, that it should thus
Lake III conscience torture us:
Whate'er do. where'er 20
elOne guitless e'r was haunted sol.
Still still, methinks thy face view,
And still thy face doth pursue
Az #. not You me, but had murdered you
But Cowley died more than two hundred years ago.
BeW long since that passionate heart stopped beating
They very cold for many year. all these ardent
lovers passion and pinng and despair expressed
themselves in song; and whose musical miseries and
Thyined blAses Mrs Richardson embalmed in these
Rages What book itls-tO whose making have con-
tYibuted Shakespeare and Ben JonsOn, and Thomas
Decker and Robert Greene, and Christopher MarlOwe
and Francis Beaumont, and John Fletcher and half
hundred other men who lived loved and wrote and
aed long agothe very yewtrees whose graves have
grown old Women are fond and fair still, and men
audi LAWN buf no NOR eueh EOn are