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to greater things than she has yet achieved , —to a fuller and freer expression of feeling and discrimination of sentiment . Her poetry at present consists of description and narrative . When she shall have
learned to impart to it the deeper and richer charm which we are sure she has to bestow , she will be disposed to confine her efforts within narrower limits , and to make the beauties of her verse relieve each other by a cheater force both of contrast and concentration .
We extract the descriptive opening of the principal poem of the volume , and a passage which we are sorry to perceive is the only one of its kind -. " Bathing his golden glories in the main , The setting sun shines o ' er romantic Spain ;
The Pyrenean mountains * loftiest height , The peak , the passing cloud impending o ' er , Where scarce the venturous eagle dares to soar , Is circled with a crown of crimson light .
On the smooth slope of yonder beetling rock The lonely goatherd tends his browzing flock , And siugs his simple Andalusian lay ; How musically falls the clear cascade , Bubbling and brawling through the sylvan shade , That spreads its coolness o ' er the craggy way 1
In full fertility below expand The undulary beauties of the land ; Vineyards and valleys rich with rip ' ning grain ; The picturesque and endless interchange Of chesnut wood , Sierra ' s frowuing range , The drear ravine and olive-teeming plain .
The citron groves , the cork-tree shaded dells , Whence the soft echo of the vesper bells Proclaims the peaceful hour of ev ' ning prayer , Seem floating in the twilight ' s purple haze That half obscures their charms and half displays , As the thin veil conceals the blushing fair .
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Now onward glides the bright and balmy night , The season consecrated to delight , Welcome to all in Spain ' s voluptuous clime , Where , in the gay saloon or garden glade , Love breathes his most impassioned serenade , And hails with song and dance Ins chosen time .
More grateful than the dazzling light ofnooD , Serenely smiling gleams the crescent moon . With what a silv ' ry sheen doth she surround Yon cloister'd convent on the distant
steep , Where hooded nuns their weary vigils keep , By holy vow irrevocable bound !"
" 'Tis charming , from the trifling crowd apart , To ope the hidden treasure of the heart , TV exhaustless store Imagination yields Of lustrous , gemlike thoughts , and feelings free , That cast a gloss upon reality—Tis bliss to range her rich Utopian fields !
To follow where the smiling sibyl , Hope , Points to the future as a flow ' ry slope , Making its hazardous ascent appear Sun-bright and smooth ; or on the twilight track Of the dim past , by Mem ' ry ' s lamp look back , Illumin'd by its mellow'd rays and clear .
In moments sad the sweet beguilers pour A healing balm upon the fleeting hour , The heart relieving of its brief distress ; Or in the full fruition of desire , The visionary sisters then inspire Chimeras fair , to crowu our happiness . *'—P . 63 .
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282 Critical Notices . —Miscellaneous .
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Art . VII . — Poetical Ditties / br Children . Compiled from various Authors . London . 1831 . John Mardon . Pretty ditties these ; and such as bring back childish voices upon our ear
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1831, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2596/page/66/
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