The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-14

"Abssnt- Minded Resgar" has carntd some
thing like $4,000 for the widows and orphans
'Topmy Atkins left bchlnd him" suppose
tbnt Il took Mr.. kinling a day TO write. and
certainly Il ought 70 have taken so long
Il remains a pretty good days work Even
IN. stock broker might 10 proud Of II.
OF course. IL didnt make that twenty
thousand merely as poetry II was really the
netlonal sentiment behind & that insde tho
money. SilM when the sun wants TO burn
holes into peoples POCKETS az you can imas-
Inc such thlrgl Il needs burning glass.
Great causes need loud voices. II Is no use
sending hat around in the form OF Mil
tonic sonnet In short. poetry to be ''prac-
ti,al'' At the moment mustn't be too good
or Il must be great, indeed
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As facts there is. literally speaking. no com
psrison between Mr.. ISipling and Mr.. Phil
lips. Tbey do quite different things, To
compare the poet OF 'Marpessa" tths hrst
poem OF AS kind since Keats discovered the
buried marbles OF Greece somewhere iear
Finsbury circus) with the poet Of "the Bar
rack room Ballads" would be TO compare
Apollo with nIgger-minstrel Each .oet
does his own work. and each will have his
own reward Mr.. Kipnns ls the chosen OF
the multt,-.- Mr. Phillips may come TO be
imposed on It. az such poets as Keats have
been imposed on e. He belongs to ",hc
classical music OF poetry. The natural mrn
prefers sulllvsn--and why notl
He praised the thing he understood.
'Twere we'll II every critic would
says Austin pohson in one OF his neat spo-
iosues. Personally am OF Bottoms opinion,
and have an Unsuitable love for 'the tonss
and the bones'--till. may AZ well add. am
offered something better.
This week. for no good OF my own. the
mysterious invisible power that snins the
liberty silk worms and weayes the Morris
tapestries OF eve, mean tho wonderful lover
81 hsaatS soint where at the back OF the world
who gladdens our slaughter house of planet
With the occasional slit Of his dreamsi thai
mysterious benehcient power. say, has
thrown down into my November days .
wonderful poem, stephen Phillips Francesca
and Psolo" C.anol. know OF nothing
have ever done that entities me to buy Sc
much beauty for three shllllnss and ala
pence-''net." Hut SUCH occasionally. ia III,
blessed ordering Of the world.
| No doubt you think l write fancifully
Maybe Old habit Is strong. But there Is
meaning in my fancy. mean simply nov
/ good it is TO be alive, when one eau wake NJ
| dun and dim some November morning M,
md that tho post. riding through tho night
has brought one such gift OF noble pootr!
as "Paolo and Francesca. Nunc dimittis
| know now something of what IT must hsv
meant to 20 TO sleep one night with, say, NJ
swinburnc in the world, and next morning 4
rub ones eyes and md Atlanta In caly
don" shining on the breakfast table
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Yes. YOU may laugh. But read "Paolo on
Francesca and see II 1t isn't true. OF course
you mayn't agree. Tastes differ. pqrhap
you didn't think the quotation made frtn
Mr.. Philips play few weeks aso so fine
all that. Suppose. then. we try another
Take this terrible yearnips cry OF barre
woman;
iMcretia sister to Giovanni. tTrtut
Rlmini. brother OF Paolos
l.. MY husband dead and childless LEI
My thwarted woman thoughts have inNar
turned, st
And that vain milkliko seld in me eats
To venture, and taught litns lip. TO move,
Until they shaped the wonder q Wor ,a
| NhA iVAh PAHNNfNNNf
minel
N Nine doubly mine, ana YET eau hoN ''"e
them
II can not see them, hear them. Does grea
Expect shall clasp or and kiss the wind
ForeyerG And the bdddiag cometh on
rhe burgeoping inc cruel towering;
Al night the .Gsickening splash OF rain
dawn 80.
That mun}sd call OF papes nov nNe a. V ~,
And amid these s'Ehs an" o'"'"' NV
siaDfe-- ,, -, ,h-i,
with SO much 10 give, PERISH VI 'p''
tJJntted by Ills casual de"'
Answers Gloyanni'
4 Wen, we'll
A Lucretia again;
cs, ~. h. sn,rca what was horn
, "phrep, 20 'S
nn !, -,onan md This very nesh
Demands rs naIurs' n sbeensn rn hese pains
Al pnow thai thai children wound US, and surpri
Even to t,o Ss'er a saes to nowers but this
heart co. mos. nanrs and had toresee
Oh sS nv, ! prudse Inc mother her last look
H. H. Canned form-that pang is rch--
, Upon the sbpYar,na Nv when gravel falls
IN iIe tSasn mnimed wants and thwatt,
AZ, n, 81
,. ,houk", 49,, answered nv ,be wind,
iIaIs dr;ed IN me- bslioi ana love and fear