New-York tribune., 1877-05-16

bi fancy lbs Inc perfume OF ,hn tnickct and the wood
huuor is the cayety which must have con1@n"hthlp
and the echo Ot an answering laugh 1hs lHluo', 'ni9
tender grace, this hnmor, were Lot he more iIEcs Iu
furniture 6f his verse They inherent IN the very
impulse ana movement OF his poee thought. Trey Kavo
is unique variety aud rapid hlchaions hoM 5 Iied
the tear and tie smile. How often the 10" OF his steady
rhythln keeps its oven swell, like biliOw seen AT us
tancr which We fancy will break feot with the re
sounding waves before it, hut Of sudden iar our rom
sGor as il by an impulse OF its own, breaks into foam
aud spray and seems to gather all tie sunlight INTO a
Tie natural grace and dignity Of his poetry were con
spicuOus in his personal traits The fine caTra'e OF ls
muse. ell as It's playful ninth ana warm sfmpalD9i
had tbeir counterpart IN the charm Of hs and
his genial fIieudlincss He MASK II there was
IN any NOrd OF his one or color moi Wholly IN
world cst mate OF them it was IN his habiuaI self
depreciation. Ills sp0rve protests against o'l'!tdo OF
claims them, bis hair testing appeal for present
rcCOgiutOn-as when he sang
l;Tgiyag ws;,, b, l.l ,Is me D n,Ss1!Eow ,y,,y
fbsr'. A., u M music T,.t IN i tis i voice Of fSme
Ike Garcias. iei ne hear it
these and other kindred incs aud ms Si!nslon, IN
letter 10 friend 10 the posNGltcs ol statue 70 % nm
patton more than realized to-day, but Of which lie "omd
sof CpS S Wc tGey half brrayed ssc If ac
Qued desert d of The corscoqs night 70 such hGnnis
pay, not 10 the poets shade but To The hNh8
memory which survives him.
HIS LIGHT AND sPoRTIvE POEMS.
II We glance particular poems We may separate
those which distinctly light and sporiive in their
vein from those which are serious OF the first class
VIII speak only OF Fanny tine longest and most elab-
crate production OF his pen, and those local fugitive ana
halfimvToIuitu pieces with which IIallcck and Drake
delighted tie public under the mcognitO Of Croakcr
CO Every citizen or son OF Ncw-Yori duly jealous cf
itS fame must claim these as the chief, II mol the sole.
classics of i.s early metropolitan prime What tbe
charming rrosc of Irvpgs Knckc1hocker" did for te
colonial infancy o. New fork Fanny ana the 'I"iho,
al ada
that d1y whcn the poet slu. ONO was ms " sunset
iu5 was nonpdad nv very narrow limits; hat II there
stars than now ia the spheres Of nu>h or
society politics, they shon" win luStefa the lctt
for Tie narrow orbit in which ,hey revoyti, ana the
shafts Of the satst found an easy mark folics the
range Ot whose nisht was. Tor The most part tiCrtu
10 the rsg0n between the Battery and Cantlst. The
whole hs Of the time is reproduced aud perptuacd III
these famous verses which paint IN VlNu cools jile
celebrities Of Church ana state, of The bench ard tGo
the poets the politicians, inc local 1dgiHiitS; the
Yatr ainusciici,t The names which are thus immortal
led were familiar 70 our fathers and are SIN ir'sh III
tht memories o' some WHO liFr' DGt Ior ue t."u
OF distant future they "a, I've only as ne WIS al3
srcs ~ Juytu3l or of Pope. Bu mono the les. VIII
tai. f. letter written To- me III IS'S, H1iiech' III
response 10 an aDusion / had made to "ranny',
RGaaS @i ne Poem as nv ' .o thread M i'' to
string the beads Of my nonsense upon,
OF Saint Immany may tell htir beads IN p'nient
retrcaprc, Of TINT era OF comparative innocence "hcn
tbcr atI,d to The tliptn.aps ana never turned their
tomanaHk5 against each other our EiIlnt ~" seventh
r,,rir, 9lietatrd by SNartWOu,'s Iron GIays,' who
are mado BY HaleckS must the peers OF The Roman
OF ua mes ilu,ji7ous and obscure M GA! he Tcced,
where coscUOUs virtues or ocS, good fortune or bad
fortune are uadc Che hcWp Of these sparkling stzdS.
No cOf.mpurary cS lyCd; mark was M ei, no hhJ
t.ca o b., ana whether winged ut tde loitcst the
oyylest al what was permanent transient from TIE
n 4 utr civic rIler Cf The day 20 tine ucicss French
ac.ouau whose unuaua-'a5o balloon With Us attend
him q uouDc .inn. .Ttay, ciHI=!ml.7 nm y .lrct
FlHuy and lhptlBg ui ID a ~ mon ~ Cie,-'Hr'l.
sutlg.r u4iutiN tlur the iclCiC