The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-19
took her by the we'll turned arm.

! took her by the well turned arm,
And led her over neld and farm,
And kissed her tender cheek SO warm,
rose In carly morning.
The SPIDERS lace work shons ike glass;
Tied up TO flowers and cattaii grass;
Tue dew drops bounced before tho lass
sprinIling tho carly morning
Her dark curls tanned among tho gales,
The skyark whistled DER the wales,
told her loves delightful tales
Among tho dews OF morning.
Sho creP't hower, shook on the dew;
And on her breast the wild rose grew;
She FLUSHED as fair, AZ lovely, too
Tho living rose OF morning..
Why do not latter day poets wro verso as tuno-
iul or unaffected as that OF this poor peasant Of
Northamptonshirc? He strives after making NO
effect, but simply to give uticranco to the song within
him Perhaps II he had labored over his rhymes aud
weighed his words his poems would have lost that
sponnncity which IL their charm There are others
of these poems that we'll worth quoting, particu
larry tho one beginning
Como hither, my dear one, my choice ono and rare
And let us DO walking tho meadows so fair, - it
While on pilewort and daisies the eve iondly gazcs,
And tho wind plays So sweet IN thy bonn, brown
But space lorbds. We have given enough to show the
reader is unfamiliar With John Clare what treat
he has before him in becoming acquainted with that
ghtiul poet.
PROVERBS on PORCELAIN AND OTHER VERSES. BY
Austin D0bson. London: Henry 5. King Go.
New YORK: scribnor, weilord 4 Armstrong
Worry different from tho foregoing is tho volume be-
fore US OF Austin Dobson's poems This young poet
writes de socie with grace and nnish that only
with knowledge OF tho subject and practice IN the
art His verso shows the man about town. the man 10
whom books common as were buttercups apd
daisies to poor Clare, whose associates are among
clever men and bright women; the man upon whom
fortune has smiled critics applaud 10 write good
de IA M
almost alone this limo OF poetry. There Is
decacy Of perception and daintncss Of Touch ncces-
say without wh poetry o; this order would DO silly
stuff indeed. Mr. Dobson seems TO have caught tho
right spirit and h,s verses have all tho imagination
requisite 10 mako the ways OF society charming Ihere
times his broadncss OF touch that 10 no
mirablo aud proves that TINS poet Is capable oil moro
important though, perhaps, not Of more entertaining
work. Here Is love song that reads as though IL
might have boon written by old beau In velvet aud
rufles:--
When FIRST In Cca's car poured
yet unpractiscd pray'r,
Ny trembling tongue sincere ignored
Tho aids OF ''swcct' and "lair."
only said, as in me lay,
I'D strive her worth TO reach;
Sho frowned and turned her eyes away
SO much for truth III speech.
Then Della came. changed my plan;
praisod her to her race.
praised her features, praised her fan,
Her lap DOG and her lace
swore that not till tmo were dead
My passion should decay.
She smiling, gave her baud and said,
twill last then-lor day."
In another vein Is "The Cradlc:"-
How steadIastly she'd worked at It!
How lovingly had drest
With all her would be mothers wit
That little rosy nest!
How lovingly she'd hung on i'll
IL sometimes seemed, she said,
There lay beneath It's covcrlet
y little sleeping head.
He came at last, tho tiny guest
Ere bleak December fled;
That rosy nest ho never prest-
Her coffin was bis bed
This volume is dedicated to Frederick Locker, who
is n writer of somewhat tho same order OF verse
Mr. Dobson. With the exception oil Mr. T. b. Aldrich
We have no writer OF lie societe the muse Of
poets seems 10 in another direction. There ia,
however large audience in America for light and airy
verse by whom Mr. Dobson's book will DO warmly