The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-11-11

Kings" out Of . selection Of Mas 0uinsy's
wonderfully moving verse. even n It does
contain by way OF reparation that Irish
peasant song which vibrates with the
very spirit Of the Celtic isle.
4 knead and spin. but my life is low
And l long to Be alone ana walk abroad
= mile.
Yet II walk alone ana think OF nausht
At all.
why from me that's young should the
Wild tears fall,
The sky-stricken earth. the earth-colored
streams,
They breathe on me awake, and moan to
me In dreams:
And yonder ivy fondiing the broke castle
wall,
II pulls upon my heart till the Wild tears
fall.
The cabin door looks down furxe-lighted
hill,
And far as Leighiin. cross the fields are
green and still:
But once hear the blackbird In Ieighlin
hedges call,
tears fall"
Or why should not Miss Katharine Lee
Bates be represented by her poem The
lQd dis Which CdIBt Jul the ScUtuty
a Oxen years ago. has never appeared
elsewhere in print. but has. as the present
reviewer can attest from observation
gone Into the notebooks and thence been
committed to memory by at least every
second student and lover OF poetry the
country over.
But II is trivial to find fault with q
task so we'll performed. Concerning In
- "A
ference of taste, but what Mr.. Stedman
and his associates have done most admir-
ably is to- convey sense Of the INFINITE
riches OF our last thirty years in tho
shape Of exquisite pitts" Of poetry. There
has been no great poet save Sidney
Lanier, who died with his work but just
begun, and IN whose death. ms Stedman
Justly says, mot only the South that
bore him. but the country and our Eng
lish rhythm underwent the loss of rare
being. one who was seeking out the abso-
lutte harmony and whose experiments
were along the pathways of discovery"
The only other name which stands out
conspicuously Is that Of T. b. AldricA.
who has wrougfx upon slight themes. in
deed. but has puf into them whole life
time of devotion to art an exquisite fancy
and wonderful technical skill.
or those who come after. Miss Quincy
IL the most remarkable. both In beauty Of
rhythm and elevation OF thought But
there are hundred others singing half
unnoticed. yet how boldly and sweetly.
That they do so means the wide diffusion
of that poetic insight. that deep ideaiity
which Is even more valuable to tho world
when II Is spent upon life itself than whom
5u frat al ma civ arf lett f<evv
and substance. There is no corruption nor
decadence in a nation whose minor poets
are SO numerous, SO sane. so sweet. as
ours.
But In emphasizing the moral value Of
their work II Is not necessary to UNDER
rate II from the artistic standpoint. ThArs
is no exagseration In saying that there
are as many minor poets OF high rank
represented in this Anthology as any sim
thar collection from the Ellxabethan ere
can show. and. poem for poem. they are
Of equal status. Consider for moment
the case OF Miss Lzette Nyoodworth
Reese. whose '-Darodiis' 10 as charming
and more subtle than anything that Her
rick ever wrote. And IL the following
poem OF hers were signed George Her
bert should we not consider II one OF
that worthy's best titles 70 Immortality
TRUST"
Il am thy grass, Lardi
| grow up sweet and tall
But for a day. beneath thy sword
To lie at evenfat
Yet have not enough
In that brief day OF rainef
The wind. the bees. the wholesome stur
The sGn pours out like wine.
behold This 10 my crown
Love viii not lot me be;
Love holds me here; Love cuts me down,
Ans u IL well with me.
Lori Love keep IL bat 50:
Thy purpose 10 fuli plain.
I die that after I may grow
A. tall as sweet. again"
Truly. 40 the editor observes, ~ fair
equivalent Of the Ode 70 a ~irhstn.
gale were new 20 come into print. a
reviewer Of the magazine containing It
doubtless Nigh, content himself with say
tag. There 10 also a poem by Mr. -"
Yet " this means that We accept branty
ana sxcsiiencs as q ccmmonpi2ce ana
nothing more thar cur right. n Is rot %
1isooasssinx a token a. Il seems. Ana
n the steernan Anthology serves tho pur-
pose Of revealing In any degree TO the
average reader tho wealth az b~auty ana