The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1886-10-07
NUMBER 40.
Literature.

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and as the author of some novels, but this we be-
lieve is his first book of poems. The Boston
Herald says This little volume of poetry has
a strong individual character. The verses are
not always pleasing, but they compel one to 90
back to them again and again. They are un-
conventional in their thought and expression.
| They are not exactly objective in tone, nor
| quite personal in the impression which they
| leave upon the mind. 1t is not easy to place
| them. They remind one of the verses of Mr..
George Meredith They are written, so to
speak, after the emotion has subsided, and yet
in its wake. They are the reflection of inn
| pressions. They are also at times almost per-
feet in their pictures of nature. Such is ''IThe
Brown Lichen," such also is 'Metempsychosis,"
and such are the 'McmorieS of Cuba,' There
is another class of poems that grow upon one
They deal with the affections. They are not
gushing love poems. They hold the passion in
reserve, and for this very reason should have
the greater acceptance. The piece entitled
'One' is a favorable specimen. 1t runs thus:
''The world is nau@ht till one is come
Who is the worlds then beauty wakes
! And voices sing that have been dumb
| The world is naught when one is gone
Who is the world then the heart breaks
| That this is lost which once was won.
Dear love, this life, so passion fraught,
From you its bliss or sorrow takes;
| With you is all without you naught."
This is an example of the average tone and
character of these poems They are not want
Ing in exquisite touch and delicate expression.
The lyric beauty of TO the Phoebe Bird is
like the work of the best poets and is gem of
its kind. The Ballad of the Spinner is full
Of weird and strange interest and is exquisite
| ly told Without making any claims for them
selves, it may be said of Mr.. Bates poems that
| the collection is one of the choicest and best
that has appeared since Miss Thomas sent out
her collected pieces under the title of "a New
Years Masquc." Mr.. Bates has succeeded in
writing poetry that is not only severe in its
| simplicity but is true to life and expresses
| genuine emotion. All the pieces are short, but
they are all good. Not even the very bits of
verse could willingly be spared. Those who
like choice and true work will possess this vol
ume and find in it the echo of much that passes
within the reserve Of their own lives. BY Ar
! 10 Bates, Boston: Roberts Bros.
| NOTES.
Ioughton, Mitflin 4 Go. announce for publi-
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and Other Poems" 1t is the competent judg-
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is "the strongest among all the female poets of
America"
The Century will soon publish two of Mr..
| 4 f,,l.
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