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< SHELL *? AN 1 > KEATS , Atiti TttEIR ^^ EVffiW ^ R . ^ * Two heavenly dovete I saw , which were , indeed , Sweet birds and gentle—like the immortal pair That waft the Cyprian chariot through the air ;'
And with their songs made music , to exceed All thought of what rich poesy might be : At which a crow , perched on a sullen tree / Dingy and hoarse , made baser by their brightness /] Would fain be judge of melody and whiteness . And cawed dire sentence on these sweet-throat turtles ;
To which his fellow flock of carrion things Croaked clamorous assent ; but still the wings Of those pure birds are white amid the myrtles Of every grove , where culled they nectared seed , Whilst still on cold dead flesh these carrion creatures feed . 'j p . 121
In the * Adyta Cordis' there is a redolence of beauty which must place the author high amongst erotic bards ; yet with something too much of mere sensation , and too little of thfat true power of love which he professes to celebrate . It seems as if , with the author , love had been the offspring of poetry , rather
than poetry the offspring of love . His descriptions are of the phenomena of sense , passion , and the general perception of beauty , rather than of that strong and permanent individualization of them , in which consist the power and purity of love ; of that love which refines and elevates the best natures , and is the
motive and the recompense of the noblest actions . In Lord Brougham ' s ' Natural Theology / we are taught that the final cause of the passion of love is the perpetuation of the species , and such would probably have been the purpose assigned to it in the calculations of Jeremy Bentham ; yet may the Utilitarian philosophy and the theology of nature yield a better
orable'Jo the inquirer , and indicate its proper and noble agency in thbse impulses to the exertions of the poet or the patriot , which no ^ her stimulus can so wel l supply . The author ' s perception of this agency , and his want of an entire , consistent , and uniform recognition of the power which exercises it , may perhaps both be illustrated by the poem entitled c Pain and Solace , a Vision . '
' PAIN AND SOLACK , 'A VUion . * With her I love I enter ed a proud chamber , Festooned with golden lamps , ot many diep , Illumed , with pendants of rich pearl and amber ; And on the walls hung ancient tapestries , Storied with fnan y tales Of smiles and sighs , j There , in the rnidatj on a low ottoman , Sate ? Vtik I loWtL rafcinfr with weeping eyes U ] ian' # to ^«<^ And Syrinx , piteous nymph ! transformed as she ran
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 456, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/20/
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