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like and so loyely iti its likeness , even with less shade of difference than any of his own ' dualisms . ' * Two bees within a crystal flower-bell rocked , Hum a love-lay to the west wind at noontide , — Both alike they buzz together , Both alike they hum together Through and through the flowered heather : Where in a creeping cove the wave , unshocke'd ,
Lays itself calm and wide , Over a stream two birds of glancing feather Do woo each other , carolling together , — Both alike they glide together , Side by side ; Both alike they sing together , Arching blue-glossed necks beneath the purple weather . Two children , lovelier than Love , adown the lea are singing . As they gambol , lily garlands erer stringing , — Both in blosm-vvhite silk are frocke'd , Like , unlike , they roam together , Under a summer vault of golden weather 5
Like , unlike , they sing together , Side by side , Mid May ' s darling golden-locked , Summer ' s tanling diamond-eyed . *—Vol . i . p * 145 . With the exception of the above lines , we shall confine our quotations to the volume just published . Our remarks on the author , and our reference to his poems , will apply , and be made indiscriminately to both volumes .
A § fruit hath its inner core and its outer rind , and , in the perfection of its ripeness , when the one is become most rich and mellow for the taste , the other is most soft to the touch and lovely to the sight ; and , as in man , there are the organs of sense without , and the faculties of intellect and feeling within ; the one the eye that beams in light , the voice that speaks in music , and the other the brain that works and the heart that throbs : so has
perfect poetry its inner spirit of deep and rich significance , and its outer shell of melody and varied loveliness . The true poet is compounded of the philosopher and the artiste . His nervous organization should have internally the tenacity which will weave into the firmest web of solid thought , and in his sense , externall y , be tremulous as the strings of an ^ Eolian harp , that quiver in every breeze , but ever tremble tunefully . The author has a
large endowment of both these qualities , yielding , perhaps , among poets of modern fame , only to Wordsworth in the one , and only to Coleridge in the other ; and affording , by their combinatipn , a proinise , which the world requires and needs of him—pot to dopm to the bitterness of disappointment . Xbe music pf poetry U $ s f ^ r fro ^ haying been <;\ ilti Y ^ 4 * $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1833, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2606/page/31/
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