s: Are pictures which Muskoka twilights frame.


s: And Night, star-crested, wanders up the mere


s: The owl's uncanny cry, the wild loon's laugh.


s: Sing to us, cedars; the twilight is creeping


s: With shadowy garments, the wilderness through;


s: All day we have carolled, and now would be sleeping,


s: And we drowse to your dreamy whispering.


s: Sing to us, cedars; the night-wind is sighing,


s: Is wooing, is pleading, to hear you reply;


s: And here in your arms we are restfully lying,


s: And longing to dream to your soft lullaby;


s: Sing to us, cedars; your voice is so lowly,


s: Your breathing so fragrant, your branches so strong;


s: Our little nest-cradles are swaying so slowly,


s: While zephyrs are breathing their slumberous song.


s: Sleep, with her tender balm, her touch so kind,


s: O! Sleep, my tired eyes had need of thee!


s: Is thy sweet kiss not meant to-night for me?


s: Peace, with the blessings that I longed for so,


s: Where'er she folds her holy wings I know


s: O! Peace, my tired soul had need of thee!


s: Love, with her heated touches, passion-stirred,


s: I called, "O stay thy flight," but all unheard


s: O! Love, my tired heart had need of thee!


s: Is thy sweet kiss withheld alone from me?


s: Sleep, sister-twin of Peace, my waking eyes


s: How oft my lonely heart has cried to thee?


s: But Thou, and Sleep, and Peace, come not to me.


s: Look out while darkness overspreads the way,


s: Calm peace is frighted with my mood to-night,


s: Nor visits my dull chamber with her light,


s: Long hours since the city rocked and sung


s: Aloft their torches in the midnight skies


s: No sound awakes; I, even, breathe no sigh,


s: The sweetest guest that courts humanity;


s: With subtle, slow enchantment draws she near,


s: What care I for the olive branch of Peace?


s: Kind Sleep will bring a thrice-distilled release,


s: And so she bends, this welcome sorceress,


s: To crown my fasting with her light caress.


s: Ah, sure my pain will vanish at the bliss


s: I must refuse sweet Sleep, although the trial


s: With more than sorrow, silently I stand,


s: "Go, Sleep," I say, "before the darkness die,


s: "His poor tired eyes in vain have sought relief,


s: His heart more tired still, with all its grief;


s: His pain is deep, while mine is vague and dim,


s: "When thou hast fanned him with thy drowsy wings,


s: And laid thy lips upon the pulsing strings


s: That in his soul with fret and fever burn,


s: She goes. The air within the quiet street


s: Reverberates to the passing of her feet;


s: I watch her take her passage through the gloom


s: I pray that Sleep may lift you to her breast,


s: Would that my heart could comfort you the same,


s: But in the censer Sleep is swinging high,


s: Wane at the thought of your calm sleeping eyes--


s: And so, dear heart, still silently I stand,


s: The long, long night has bitter been and lone,


s: Dawn lights her candles in the East once more,


s: The Lenten morning breaks with holy ray,


s: Nor follow star-directed ways, nor tread


s: The paths wherein the shepherds walked, that led


s: To Christ, and peace, and God's good will to men.


s: Peal through the Oriental skies, nor see


s: Announce the King the world had waited long.


s: The manger throne I may not kneel before,


s: Through pure St. Mary's purer, holier child;


s: The human Christ these eyes may not adore.


s: Nor gold have I to give the Perfect Son,


s: To be with those wise kings a worshipper.


s: Not mine the joy that Heaven sent to them,


s: For ages since Time swung and locked his gates,


s: But I may kneel without--the star still waits


s: So near at hand (our eyes o'erlooked its nearness


s: A dear dream lay--perchance to grow in dearness


s: Astir. The air our very breathing fanned


s: But our shut eyes saw not, and fate dispelled it


s: To flame, and errant fortune bade us stand


s: I sometimes think had we two been discerning,


s: From others' eyes had then revealed its turning


s: Our footsteps, guiding us into love's land


s: So near at hand, dear heart, could we have known it!


s: Had either loved, or loving had we shown it,


s: We did not know that heart could heart command,


s: What then availed the red wine's subtle glisten?


s: And now what profit that we wait and listen


s: Each for the other's heart beat? Ah! the cry


s: Of love o'erlooked still lingers, you and I


s: Sought heaven afar, we did not understand


s: And in this landward-lying shade we let our paddles rest.


s: Are days that only come in a Canadian July.


s: Nor fate, nor fortune matters to us now:


s: The breeze may die, the sail may droop, we care not when or how.


s: And all too near my arm your temple bends.


s: Is one of ease and art, in which a perfect languor blends.


s: Of muscle, half suspected, half defined;


s: Above your splendid sunburnt throat that pulses unconfined.


s: Your arm superb is lying, brown and bare;


s: (I kiss the very wind that blows about your tumbled hair).


s: Whene'er they leave their far-off gaze, and turn


s: Is servile to your cloud-grey eyes, wherein cloud shadows burn.


s: So perfect is the single kiss your lips lay on my hand.


s: Has dropped to slumber, with no after-blow;


s: More than the homeward blowing wind that died an hour ago.


s: To-night the west o'er-brims with warmest dyes;


s: With pools of purple colouring the skies,


s: And some hot soul seems throbbing close to mine,


s: As sinks the sun within that world of wine.


s: My ear can scarcely catch the whispered note,


s: Blends with that strain, till both accord in one,


s: As cloud and colour blend at set of sun.


s: And twilight comes with grey and restful eyes,


s: But O! I heard a voice from those rich skies


s: It was as if some priestly fingers stole


s: My heart outreached its arms, all passion thronged


s: Near to a heart that loves and leans to me.


s: Alone, alone with God's grey earth that seems


s: Pulse of my pulse and consort of my dreams.


s: Thro' space on space, till flesh no more can bind,


s: Let me but feel athwart my cheek the lash


s: Of whipping wind, but hear the torrent dash


s: Adown the mountain steep, 'twere more my choice


s: Than touch of human hand, than human voice.


s: Let me but wander on the shore night-stilled,


s: Drinking its darkness till my soul is filled;


s: The breathing of the salt sea on my hair,


s: My outstretched hands but grasping empty air.


s: Let me but feel the pulse of Nature's soul


s: Athrob on mine, let seas and thunders roll


s: O'er night and me; sands whirl; winds, waters beat;


s: For God's grey earth has no cheap counterfeit.


s: What of the days when we two dreamed together?


s: As lightsome as a skyward floating feather


s: Summer, summer, that came drifting through


s: What of the days, my dear? I sometimes wonder


s: Could be the blue we sailed so softly under,


s: Sailed in the warm and yellow afternoon,


s: Have you no longing to re-live the dreaming,


s: To watch my paddle blade all wet and gleaming


s: To lie wind-blown and wave-caressed, until


s: Do you not long to listen to the purling


s: To hear the nearing rapids softly swirling


s: What need of question, what of your replying?


s: Would toss the world away to be but lying


s: In listless indolence entranced and lost,


s: Ah me! my paddle failed me in the steering


s: All reckless, I had ne'er a thought of fearing


s: When through the self-same rapids we dash by,


s: Because, dear Christ, your tender, wounded arm


s: Bends back the brier that edges life's long way,


s: That no hurt comes to heart, to soul no harm,


s: I do not feel the thorns so much to-day.


s: Because you walk before and crush the brier,


s: It does not pierce my feet so much to-night.


s: My selfish prayers, I ask but one thing now,


s: That these harsh hands of mine add not unto


s: The crown of thorns upon your bleeding brow.


s: Afloat within that light and lonely shell,


s: The moon had cast across the river's breast,


s: So still your upturned face, so calm your breath,


s: From boulder unto boulder, till they dashed themselves to death.


s: Your god-like head so near my lap was laid--


s: As sweeping to the rapids verge, I changed my paddle blade.


s: And swept beneath a shore of shade, beneath a velvet moon.


s: Is listening to the rapids purling past?


s: To idolize the perfect world, to taste of love at last.


s: Into the rose gold westland, its yellow prairies roll,


s: World of the bison's freedom, home of the Indian's soul.


s: Your plains wind-tossed, and grass enswathed.


s: Farther than vision ranges, farther than eagles fly,


s: Stretches the land of beauty, arches the perfect sky,


s: Fringing the prairie billows, fretting horizon's line,


s: Darkly green are slumb'ring wildernesses of pine,


s: Whispers freighted with odour swinging into the air,


s: Russet needles as censers swing to an altar, where


s: Laughing into the forest, dimples a mountain stream,


s: Pure as the airs above it, soft as a summer dream,


s: Surely the great Hereafter cannot be more than this,


s: Surely we'll see that country after Time's farewell kiss.


s: Sailing into the cloud land, sailing into the sun,


s: Into the crimson portals ajar when life is done?


s: Night of Mid-June, in heavy vapours dying,


s: Like priestly hands thy holy touch is lying


s: God-like and grand all nature is commanding


s: The "peace that passes human understanding";


s: What matters it to-night, if one life treasure


s: For some far gift, where many gifts are thronging,


s: Am I to learn that longing, lifted higher,


s: Perhaps will catch the gleam of sacred fire


s: That underneath this cross--however lowly,


s: Like to a scene I watched one day in wonder:--


s: The sun outbreaking in his farewell hour,


s: With brief hot touch, so marvellous and shining,


s: A hundred steeples on the sky out-lining,


s: Above them all, with halo far outspreading,


s: Against the clouds of grey to seaward drifting,


s: Beneath the seen, a great unseen is resting,


s: For while the cross that pinnacle is cresting,


s: Night of Mid-June, so slumberous and tender,


s: Night of Mid-June, transcendent in thy splendour


s: All colour fades from round that far-off spire,


s: When each white moon, her lantern idly swinging,


s: Comes out to join the star night-watching band,


s: Across the grey-green sea, a ship is bringing


s: Naught would I care to live in quaint old Britain,


s: These wilder shores are dearer far to me,


s: Yet when I read the words that hand has written,


s: The parent sod more precious seems to be.


s: Within that folded note I catch the savour


s: Of climes that make the Motherland so fair,


s: Although I never knew the blessed favour


s: That surely lies in breathing English air.


s: Paints English pictures, though my longing eyes


s: Have never known the blessedness of seeing


s: The blue that lines the arch of English skies.


s: And yet my letter brings the scenes I covet,


s: Framed in the salt sea winds, aye more in dreams


s: I almost see the face that bent above it,


s: I almost touch that hand, so near it seems.


s: Near, for the very grey-green sea that dashes


s: 'Round these Canadian coasts, rolls out once more


s: To Eastward, and the same Atlantic splashes


s: Her wild white spray on England's distant shore.


s: Near, for the same young moon so idly swinging


s: Her threadlike crescent bends the selfsame smile


s: On that old land from whence a ship is bringing


s: Thus loves my heart that far old country better,


s: Because of those dear words that always come,


s: With love enfolded in each English letter


s: That drifts into my sun-kissed Western home.


s: (The following poems are from the author's second book, "Canadian


s: We first saw light in Canada, the land beloved of God;


s: We are the pulse of Canada, its marrow and its blood:


s: And we, the men of Canada, can face the world and brag


s: That we were born in Canada beneath the British flag.


s: Few of us have the blood of kings, few are of courtly birth,


s: But few are vagabonds or rogues of doubtful name and worth;


s: And all have one credential that entitles us to brag--


s: We've yet to make our money, we've yet to make our fame,


s: But we have gold and glory in our clean colonial name;


s: And every man's a millionaire if only he can brag


s: That he was born in Canada beneath the British flag.


s: No title and no coronet is half so proudly worn


s: As that which we inherited as men Canadian born.


s: We count no man so noble as the one who makes the brag


s: The Dutch may have their Holland, the Spaniard have his Spain,


s: The Yankee to the south of us must south of us remain;


s: For not a man dare lift a hand against the men who brag


s: That they were born in Canada beneath the British flag.


s: Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain,


s: Where winds come sweet from the wild-rose briers


s: And the smoke of the far-off prairie fires;


s: And brown her cheeks as the prairie sod;


s: At the edge of some laggard sun-drowned stream;


s: Then sleeps and dreams for a year again.


s: The rare old lace and the subtle scents,


s: The slender foot and the fingers frail,--


s: I may act till the world grows wild and tense,


s: But never a flush on your features pale.


s: The footlights glimmer between us two,--


s: For you are the belle of the smartest set,


s: Your midnight hair and your piquant chin,


s: Drive men to madness and saints to sin,--


s: Your throat is burning, and brown, and bare,


s: You lean, and listen, and pulse, and throb;


s: For you called me your king but yester eve,


s: The long red flats stretch open to the sky,


s: Breathing their moisture on the August air.


s: The seaweeds cling with flesh-like fingers where


s: The rocks give shelter that the sands deny;


s: St. Andrews sleeps beside her sleeping seas.


s: The far-off shores swim blue and indistinct,


s: Like half-lost memories of some old dream.


s: The listless waves that catch each sunny gleam


s: Are idling up the waterways land-linked,


s: And, yellowing along the harbour's breast,


s: The light is leaping shoreward from the west.


s: And naked-footed children, tripping down,


s: Light with young laughter, daily come at eve


s: To gather dulse and sea clams and then heave


s: Their loads, returning laden to the town,


s: Leaving a strange grey silence when they go,--


s: The silence of the sands when tides are low.


s: Speak of you, sir? You bet he did. Ben Fields was far too sound


s: To go back on a fellow just because he weren't around.


s: Why, sir, he thought a lot of you, and only three months back


s: Says he, "The Squire will some time come a-snuffing out our track


s: That any day you might drop down on Rove, and me, and Ben.


s: And now you've come for nothing, for the lad has left us two,


s: And six long weeks ago, sir, he went up beyond the blue.


s: Who's Rove? Oh, he's the collie, and the only thing on earth


s: That I will ever love again. Why, Squire, that dog is worth


s: More than you ever handled, and that's quite a piece, I know.


s: Ah, there the beggar is!--come here, you scalawag! and show


s: Your broken leg all bandaged up. Yes, sir, it's pretty sore;


s: I did it,--curse me,--and I think I feel the pain far more


s: Than him, for somehow I just feel as if I'd been untrue


s: To what my brother said before he went beyond the blue.


s: You see, the day before he died he says to me, "Say, Ned,


s: Be sure you take good care of poor old Rover when I'm dead,


s: And maybe he will cheer your lonesome hours up a bit,


s: And when he takes to you just see that you're deserving it."


s: Well, Squire, it wasn't any use. I tried, but couldn't get


s: The friendship of that collie, for I needed it, you bet.


s: I might as well have tried to get the moon to help me through,


s: For Rover's heart had gone with Ben, 'way up beyond the blue.


s: He never seemed to take to me nor follow me about,


s: For all I coaxed and petted, for my heart was starving out


s: For want of some companionship,--I thought, if only he


s: Would lick my hand or come and put his head aside my knee,


s: Perhaps his touch would scatter something of the gloom away.


s: But all alone I had to live until there came a day


s: When, tired of the battle, as you'd have tired too,


s: I wished to heaven I'd gone with Ben, 'way up beyond the blue.


s: One morning I took out Ben's gun, and thought I'd hunt all day,


s: And started through the clearing for the bush that forward lay,


s: When something made me look around--I scarce believed my mind--


s: But, sure enough, the dog was following right close behind.


s: A feeling first of joy, and than a sharper, greater one


s: Of anger came, at knowing 'twas not me, but Ben's old gun,


s: That Rove was after,--well, sir, I just don't mind telling you,


s: But I forgot that moment Ben was up beyond the blue.


s: Perhaps it was but jealousy--perhaps it was despair,


s: With pain--God knows how tenderly I took that dog of mine


s: Up in my arms, and tore my old red necktie into bands


s: To bind the broken leg, while there he lay and licked my hands;


s: And though I cursed my soul, it was the brightest day I knew,


s: Or even cared to live, since Ben went up beyond the blue.


s: I tell you, Squire, I nursed him just as gently as could be,


s: And now I'm all the world to him, and he's the world to me.


s: Look, sir, at that big, noble soul, right in his faithful eyes,


s: The square, forgiving honesty that deep down in them lies.


s: And I guess he stands a better chance than many of us do


s: Of seeing Ben some day again, 'way up beyond the blue.


s: "Wreck and stray and castaway."--SWINBURNE.


s: Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest,


s: Your straight little cradle-board rocks you to rest;


s: It swings from the down-bending branch of the oak;


s: You watch the camp flame, and the curling grey smoke;


s: But, oh, for your pretty black eyes sleep is best,--


s: Little brown baby-bird swinging to sleep,


s: Your wonder-black eyes that so wide open keep,


s: The heron is homing, the plover is still,


s: The night-owl calls from his haunt on the hill,


s: Afar the fox barks, afar the stars peep,--


s: Hard by the Indian lodges, where the bush


s: Breaks in a clearing, through ill-fashioned fields,


s: She comes to labour, when the first still hush


s: Of autumn follows large and recent yields.


s: Her shoulders stooped with weight of work and years,


s: But rich in tawny colouring of her race,


s: She comes a-field to strip the purple ears.


s: And all her thoughts are with the days gone by,


s: Ere might's injustice banished from their lands


s: Like the dead husks that rustle through her hands.


s: The world of prairie, the world of plain,


s: The world of gold, and the world of grain,


s: The one who works for the nation's bread,


s: The one whose past is a thing that's dead,


s: The grey old east with its grey old seas,


s: The land of flowers and fruits and trees,


s: As my twin that swings to the western marts,


s: And they tell a tale that is strange and wild--


s: And the days count not, nor the weeks avail;


s: For the child that went up the mountain trail


s: And the watchers wept in the midnight gloom,


s: Where the canyons yawn and the Selkirks loom,


s: And the eagles wheeled and the vultures came


s: Guard the dead while the vulture seeks!--


s: Where the mountain holly above her grows,


s: No harp with its dulcet golden string,--


s: He swells his voice on the drinking ear,


s: The west lifts to the sun her longing lips,


s: Her blushes stain with gold and garnet dye


s: The shore, the river and the wide far sky;


s: Like floods of wine the waters filter through


s: The reeds that brush our indolent canoe.


s: I beach the bow where sands in shadows lie;


s: You hold my hand a space, then speak good-bye.


s: Upwinds your pathway through the yellow plumes


s: And o'er its tossing sprays you toss a kiss;


s: The empty bow your pliant wrist propelled,


s: Their blossoms with a thousand thorns afret,


s: Far floats their down--far drifts my dream away.


s: Who is it lacks the knowledge? Who are the curs that dare


s: A woman has painted a picture,--'tis a neat little bit of art


s: With its blaze of colour, and courage, its daring in every fold,


s: And underneath is the title, "What we have we'll hold."


s: 'Tis a picture plain as a mirror, but the reflex it contains


s: These are the fearless fighters, whose life in the open lies,


s: Who never fail on the prairie trail 'neath the Territorial skies,


s: These are the men of action, who need not the world's renown,


s: The above is the Territorial pet name for the North-West Mounted


s: The sky-line melts from russet into blue,


s: A wreath of smoke curls up the far, thin air,


s: And points the distant lodges of the Sioux.


s: Etched where the lands and cloudlands touch and die


s: That roll their magnitude from sky to sky.


s: The tent poles lift and loom in thin relief,


s: The upward floating smoke ascends between,


s: And near the open doorway, gaunt and lean,


s: And shadow-like, there stands an Indian Chief.


s: With eyes that lost their lustre long ago,


s: With visage fixed and stern as fate's decree,


s: Only the bones that bleach upon the plains,


s: Out mutely that naught else to him remains.


s: My heart forgot its God for love of you,


s: And you forgot me, other loves to learn;


s: Now through a wilderness of thorn and rue


s: And just because my God forgets the past,


s: Why I once left His arms for yours, at last


s: Unknown to you, I walk the cheerless shore.


s: The cutting blast, the hurl of biting brine


s: May freeze, and still, and bind the waves at war,


s: Ere you will ever know, O! Heart of mine,


s: That I have sought, reflected in the blue


s: Of these sea depths, some shadow of your eyes;


s: Have hoped the laughing waves would sing of you,


s: But this is all my starving sight descries--


s: For this title the author is indebted to Mr. Charles G. D.


s: Roberts. It occurs in his sonnet, "Rain."


s: You didn't know Billy, did you? Well, Bill was one of the boys,


s: The greatest fellow you ever seen to racket an' raise a noise,--


s: A robin's whistle in springtime from a barnyard rooster's crow.


s: The last time that I seen him was the day he rode away;


s: Or sing, an' kick up a rumpus an' racket around, and chaff,


s: For he'd got a letter from his folks that said for to hurry home,


s: When did you sink to your dreamless sleep


s: Were you lying there on your couch alone


s: The winds screech down from the open west,


s: You have locked your past, and you keep the key


s: Never a bit of woodland, never a rill that flows,


s: Only a stretch of cactus beds, and the wild, sweet prairie rose;


s: Never a habitation, save where in the far south-west


s: A solitary tepee lifts its solitary crest,


s: Where Neykia in the doorway, crouched in the red sunshine,


s: Broiders her buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine.


s: Neykia, the Sioux chief's daughter, she with the foot that flies,


s: She with the deft brown fingers, she with the soft, slow smile,


s: What is beyond the border of the prairie and the sky?


s: Does the maid in the Land of Morning sit in the red sunshine,


s: Broidering her buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine?"


s: So Neykia, in the westland, wonders and works away,


s: Far from the fret and folly of the "Land of Waking Day."


s: And many the pale-faced trader who stops at the tepee door


s: To right and to left of her, battlements rear


s: While she sits on her throne without favour or fear


s: Coast guard and sentinel, watch of the weal


s: But her hand is encased in a gauntlet of steel,


s: That one should suffer for the people, while


s: Pilate made answer to the mob, "The choice


s: Is yours; I wash my hands of this, and you,


s: Do as you will." With one vast ribald voice


s: The populace arose and, shrieking, cried,


s: "Give us Barabbas, we condone his deeds!"


s: Misjudged, condemned, dishonoured for their needs.


s: Comes the hoarse-throated, brutalized refrain,


s: Once more a man must bear a nation's stain,--


s: And that in France, the chivalrous, whose lore


s: Made her the flower of knightly age gone by.


s: Now she lies hideous with a leprous sore


s: And an indignant world, transfixed with hate


s: Of such disease, cries, as in Herod's time,


s: Pointing its finger at her festering state,


s: "Room for the leper, and her leprous crime!"


s: And France, writhing from years of torment, cries


s: Damned and disgraced, vicarious sacrifice.


s: And, vampire-like, that army sucks the blood


s: From out a martyr's veins, and strips his crown


s: Flings in the dust, and cuts his manhood down.


s: Hide from your God, O! ye that did this act!


s: With lesser crimes the halls of Hell are paved.


s: Unstained, unsoiled, unspotted,--but unsaved.


s: Purse-proud and scornful, on her heights she stands,


s: And at her feet the great white moaning sea


s: Shoulders incessantly the grey-gold sands,--


s: One the Almighty's child since time began,


s: And one the might of Mammon, born of clods;


s: And she--between the ocean and the town--


s: Lies cursed of one and by the other blest:


s: Her staring eyes, her long drenched hair, her gown,


s: Sea-laved and soiled and dank above her breast.


s: She, but the child of Mammon, born of clods,


s: Her broken body spoiled and spurned of man,


s: And only where the forest fires have sped,


s: Scorching relentlessly the cool north lands,


s: A sweet wild flower lifts its purple head,


s: And, like some gentle spirit sorrow-fed,


s: It hides the scars with almost human hands.


s: And only to the heart that knows of grief,


s: There comes some purifying sweet belief,


s: Some fellow-feeling beautiful, if brief.


s: And life revives, and blossoms once again.


s: While I drink to your health, your youth, and your wealth,


s: Fill the glass to the edge, while I stand up to pledge


s: Then here's a Ho! Vancouver, in wine of the bonniest hue,


s: With a hand on my hip and the cup at my lip,


s: For you are a jolly good fellow, with a great, big heart, I know;


s: And here's to your gold and your spirit bold,


s: And here's to the speed of the day decreed


s: Little Lady Icicle is dreaming in the north-land


s: And gleaming in the north-land, her pillow all a-glow;


s: Where little Lady Icicle lies dreaming in the snow.


s: Little Lady Icicle is waking in the north-land,


s: And shaking in the north-land her pillow to and fro;


s: Where little Lady Icicle is waking in the snow.


s: Little Lady Icicle is laughing in the north-land,


s: And quaffing in the north-land her wines that overflow;


s: Where little Lady Icicle is laughing in the snow.


s: Little Lady Icicle is singing in the north-land,


s: And bringing from the north-land a music wild and low;


s: As little Lady Icicle goes singing through the snow.


s: Little Lady Icicle is coming from the north-land,


s: Benumbing all the north-land where'er her feet may go;


s: Little Lady Icicle is coming with the snow.


s: Had watched her grow to sweet young womanhood;


s: Won the dear privilege to call her wife,


s: And found the world, because of her, was good.


s: I am the one who heard the spirit voice,


s: Of which the paleface settlers love to tell;


s: From whose strange story they have made their choice


s: Of naming this fair valley the "Qu'Appelle."


s: "When Indian summer smiles with dusky lip,


s: Come to the lakes, I will be first to hear


s: I will be first to lay in thine my hand,


s: To whisper words of greeting on the shore;


s: And when thou would'st return to thine own land,


s: I'll go with thee, thy wife for evermore."


s: Of frost upon the plain ere I set forth,


s: This queen of all the women of the North.


s: But journeyed all the dark and daylight through--


s: Until I reached the Lakes, and, hurrying on,


s: But hastened o'er their leagues of waterways;


s: But my hot heart outstripped my paddle's speed


s: And waited not for distance or for days,


s: But flew before me swifter than the blade


s: And watch the lovelight in her eyes awake.


s: So the long days went slowly drifting past;


s: It seemed that half my life must intervene


s: Before the morrow, when I said at last--


s: "One more day's journey and I win my queen!"


s: I rested then, and, drifting, dreamed the more


s: When suddenly from out the shadowed shore,


s: "Who calls?" I answered; no reply; and long


s: I stilled my paddle blade and listened. Then


s: I heard distinctly that strange voice again--


s: A woman's voice, that through the twilight came


s: I leaned and listened--yes, she spoke my name,


s: And then I answered in the quaint French tongue,


s: "Qu'Appelle? Qu'Appelle?" No answer, and the night


s: Seemed stiller for the sound, till round me fell


s: The far-off echoes from the far-off height--


s: "Qu'Appelle?" my voice came back, "Qu'Appelle? Qu'Appelle?"


s: I shuddered as the gloom of night increased,


s: And, like a pallid spectre wan and chill,


s: My boat I beached beside her tepee door;


s: I saw the death-fires lighted on the shore.


s: No language tells the torture or the pain,


s: The bitterness that flooded all my life,--


s: That queen of women pledged to be my wife.


s: The still closed eyes, the lips that knew no breath;


s: Had been usurped by my one rival--Death.


s: A storm of wrecking sorrow beat and broke


s: About my heart, and life shut out its light


s: Till through my anguish some one gently spoke,


s: And said, "Twice did she call for thee last night."


s: Asked when did her sweet lips in silence close.


s: "She called thy name--then passed away," they said,


s: "Just on the hour whereat the moon arose."


s: For she who made their beauty is not there;


s: The paleface rears his tepee on the shore


s: And says the vale is fairest of the fair.


s: Full many years have vanished since, but still


s: How, when the moonrise tips the distant hill,


s: They hear strange voices through the silence swell.


s: The paleface loves the haunted lakes they say,


s: And journeys far to watch their beauty spread


s: The night, the hour, the seasons are all dead.


s: I listen heartsick, while the hunters tell


s: Why white men named the valley The Qu'Appelle.


s: There is no song his colours cannot sing,


s: For all his art breathes melody, and tunes


s: The fine, keen beauty that his brushes bring


s: To murmuring marbles and to golden Junes.


s: In every crevice, where the deep green stains


s: Have sunken when the grey days of the year


s: Spilled leisurely their warm, incessant rains


s: That, lingering, forget to leave the ledge,


s: But drenched into the seams, amid the hush


s: And at the Master's touch the marbles leap


s: Of copper-coloured leopards, and the deep,


s: Cool basins where the whispering water wins


s: Reflections from the gold and glowing sun,


s: And tints from warm, sweet human flesh, for fair


s: And subtly lithe and beautiful, leans one--


s: (These miscellaneous poems are all of later date.)


s: Nuggets of gold are her acres, yielding and yellow with spoil,


s: Dream of the hungry millions, dawn of the food-filled age,


s: Over the starving tale of want her fingers have turned the page;


s: He needs must leave the trapping and the chase,


s: For mating game his arrows ne'er despoil,


s: And from the hunter's heaven turn his face,


s: To wring some promise from the dormant soil.


s: He needs must leave the lodge that wintered him,


s: So goes he forth beneath the planter's moon


s: With sack of seed that pledges large increase,


s: His simple pagan faith knows night and noon,


s: Heat, cold, seedtime and harvest shall not cease.


s: And yielding to his needs, this honest sod,


s: Brown as the hand that tills it, moist with rain,


s: Teeming with ripe fulfilment, true as God,


s: With fostering richness, mothers every grain.


s: Know by the thread of music woven through


s: That I have only caught these songs since you


s: The northern forest with its thousand strings,


s: The Golden-rod-- The baton that he swings.


s: There is a lonely minor chord that sings


s: When the firs finger faintly on the strings


s: Of that rare violin the night wind plays,


s: Beneath the English pines beyond the sea.


s: The lost wind wandering, forever grieves


s: And through the lonely night sweeps their refrain


s: Like Chopin's prelude, sobbing 'neath the rain.


s: The wild grape mantling the trail and tree,


s: Its tendrils cling, as clings the memory stirred


s: By some evasive haunting tune, twice heard.


s: It is the blood-hued maple straight and strong,


s: Its daring colours bravely flinging forth


s: And then the sound of marching armies 'woke


s: The lashing storms that muttered, overcome,


s: Choked by the heralding of battle smoke,


s: When these gnarled branches beat their martial drum.


s: A sweet high treble threads its silvery song,


s: Voice of the restless aspen, fine and thin


s: It trills its pure soprano, light and long--


s: The cedar trees have sung their vesper hymn,


s: Mute grows the great concerto--and the light


s: Of day is darkening, Good-night, Good-night.


s: But through the night time I shall hear within


s: And waking wind, and star-reflected light


s: Shall voice my answering. Good-night, Good-night.


s: Sob of fall, and song of forest, come you here on haunting quest,


s: You are singing there together through the God-begotten nights,


s: And the leaning stars are listening above the distant heights


s: That lift like points of opal in the crescent coronet


s: About whose golden setting sweeps the trail to Lillooet.


s: Where the Fraser River canyon yawns its pathway to the sea,


s: But half the world has shouldered up between its song and me.


s: Here, the placid English August, and the sea-encircled miles,


s: And call across the canyon on the trail to Lillooet.


s: Crown of her, young Vancouver; crest of her, old Quebec;


s: Atlantic and far Pacific sweeping her, keel to deck.


s: North of her, ice and arctics; southward a rival's stealth;


s: Aloft, her Empire's pennant; below, her nation's wealth.


s: Daughter of men and markets, bearing within her hold,


s: Appraised at highest value, cargoes of grain and gold.


s: The sunbeams, as they wound their sheets


s: 'Twixt earth and where the sunlight beats.


s: You are belted with gold, little brother of mine,


s: That spills in the west, as a chalice of wine


s: You are gossamer-winged, little brother of mine,


s: That broods where the marshes melt into a line


s: You are laden with sweets, little brother of mine,


s: Of hands we have longed for, of arms that entwine,


s: You are better than I, little brother of mine,


s: For you bring from the blossoms and red summer shine,


s: And gone are the depths of haunting blue,


s: The singing firs, and the dusk and--you,


s: The purple shade where the seaweed stirs,


s: Shaggy and swift comes the yelping band,


s: Freighters of fur from the voiceless land


s: Urging the pack through the pathless snow,


s: They scent the trail through their wild red blood,


s: Love, was it yesternoon, or years agone,


s: And placed me close beside you on the throne


s: The truant hour came back at dawn to-day,


s: And bade my sleeping soul retrace its way


s: And all my wild young life returned, and ceased


s: I feel again the lengths of silken gossamer enfold


s: My body and my limbs in robes of emerald and gold.


s: I feel the heavy sunshine, and the weight of languid heat


s: And centuries have failed to cool the memory of your hands


s: That bound about my arms those massive, pliant golden bands.


s: You wreathed around my wrists long ropes of coral and of jade,


s: And beaten gold that clung like coils of kisses love-inlaid;


s: About my naked ankles tawny topaz chains you wound,


s: With clasps of carven onyx, ruby-rimmed and golden bound.


s: But not for me the Royal Pearls to bind about my hair,


s: "Pearls were too passionless," you said, for one like me to wear,


s: But pearls so pale and cold were meant for other flesh than mine.


s: But all the blood-warm beauty of the gems you thought my due


s: Were pallid as a pearl beside the love I gave to you;


s: O! Love of mine come back across the years that lie between,


s: All yesterday the thought of you was resting in my soul,


s: Awakened, my beloved, to the morning of your eyes,


s: Your splendid eyes, so full of clouds, wherein a shadow tries


s: To overcome the flame that melts into the world of grey,


s: As coming suns dissolve the dark that veils the edge of day.


s: Cool drifts the air at dawn of day, cool lies the sleeping dew,


s: But all my heart is burning, for it woke from dreams of you;


s: And O! these longing eyes of mine look out and only see


s: A dying night, a waking day, and calm on all but me.


s: So gently creeps the morning through the heavy air,


s: The dawn grey-garbed and velvet-shod is wandering everywhere


s: To wake the slumber-laden hours that leave their dreamless rest,


s: With outspread, laggard wings to court the pillows of the west.


s: Up from the earth a moisture steals with odours fresh and soft,


s: A smell of moss and grasses warm with dew, and far aloft


s: The stars are growing colourless, while drooping in the west,


s: A late, wan moon is paling in a sky of amethyst.


s: The passing of the shadows, as they waft their pinions near,


s: Has stirred a tender wind within the night-hushed atmosphere,


s: That in its homeless wanderings sobs in an undertone


s: An echo to my heart that sobbing calls for you alone.


s: The night is gone, beloved, and another day set free,


s: Another day of hunger for the one I may not see.


s: What care I for the perfect dawn? the blue and empty skies?


s: The night is always mine without the morning of your eyes.


s: Stripped to the waist, his copper-coloured skin


s: Red from the smouldering heat of hate within,


s: Lean as a wolf in winter, fierce of mood--


s: As all wild things that hunt for foes, or food--


s: War paint adorning breast and thigh and face,


s: Armed with the ancient weapons of his race,


s: And flint-tipped arrow each with poisoned tongue,--


s: Thus does the Red man stalk to death his foe,


s: And sighting him strings silently his bow,


s: Takes his unerring aim, and straight and true


s: The arrow cuts in flight the forest through,


s: A flint which never made for mark and missed,


s: Thus has he warred and won since time began,


s: Thus does the Indian bring to earth his man.


s: On mischief, which is his especial bent.


s: Across his shoulder lies a quiver, filled


s: With arrows dipped in honey, thrice distilled


s: From all the roses brides have ever worn


s: Since that first wedding out of Eden born.


s: This youthful hunter hides a heart of guile;


s: Of lodging-place within some blameless breast.


s: Blame not young Cupid with his dart and bow:


s: Transporting into Heaven both maid and man.


s: Like a grey shadow lurking in the light,


s: He ventures forth along the edge of night;


s: With silent foot he scouts the coulie's rim


s: Seen but in unfed beasts which leave their lair


s: To wrangle with their fellows for a meal


s: Of bones ill-covered. Sets he forth to steal,


s: To search and snarl and forage hungrily;


s: Luckless the settler's heifer which astray


s: Useless her blatant calling when his teeth


s: Are fast upon her quivering flank--beneath


s: To be devoured with savage greed and haste.


s: Sneaking and satisfied his lair he gains


s: And leaves her bones to bleach upon the plains.


s: And he's showing the world what he's worth.


s: Near the house that the little man keeps,


s: Not of the seething cities with their swarming human hives,


s: The glory and the gateway of the yellow West is she.


s: Along her level lands the fitful southern breezes sweep,


s: And beyond her western windows the sublime old mountains sleep.


s: Of phantom herds of bison lurking on her midnight trails.


s: Not hers the lore of olden lands, their laurels and their bays;


s: But what are these, compared to one of all her perfect days?


s: The cloudless sapphire Heaven of her territorial skies.


s: There are fires on Lulu Island, and the sky is opalescent


s: With the pearl and purple tinting from the smouldering of peat.


s: There are fires on Lulu Island, and the smoke, uplifting, lingers


s: And the Inlet and the Narrows blur beneath its silent fingers,


s: But the sun its face is veiling like a cloistered nun at vespers;


s: And the echo of tradition wakes from slumbering and whispers,


s: Where the Capilano river sobs and sings.


s: That the lips of lovers sing for evermore.


s: She, a winsome basket weaver, daintiest of Haida daughters,


s: Made him captive to her singing and her smiles.


s: And the women of the Haidas plied in vain their magic power,


s: But she faded, ever faded, and her eyes were ever turning


s: And the soul within the river, though centuries had slumbered,


s: For her little, lonely spirit sought the Capilano canyon,


s: When she died among the Haidas in the land of Totem Poles,


s: And you yet may hear her singing to her lover-like companion,


s: But 'tis only when the pearl and purple smoke is idly swinging


s: From the fires on Lulu Island to the hazy mountain crest,


s: That the undertone of sobbing echoes through the river's singing,


s: "The Ballad of Yaada" is the last complete poem written by the


s: Have massed their armies, and on battle bent


s: But though I fight alone, and fall, and die,


s: They war upon my fortress, and their guns


s: My army plays the cowards' part, and runs,


s: They've shot my flag to ribbons, but in rents


s: Their ensign shall not crown my battlements


s: E. Pauline Johnson died March 7th, 1913. Shortly after the


s: doctors told her that her illness would be her final one, she


s: wrote the above poem, taking a line from Tennyson as her theme.


s: Look left, look right, the hills are bright,


s: Now, when the flame they watch not towers


s: To skies that knit their heartstrings right,


s: What flowers to-day may flower to-morrow,


s: Oh, look in my eyes, then, can you doubt?


s: "I wish you strength to bring you pride,


s: There sleeps in Shrewsbury jail to-night,


s: (1) Hanging in chains was called keeping sheep by moonlight.


s: There, when the turf in springtime flowers,


s: We chaired you through the market-place;


s: Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,


s: The street sounds to the soldiers' tread,


s: Such leagues apart the world's ends are,


s: The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair,


s: And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old.


s: And many the handsome of face and the handsome of heart,


s: And few that will carry their looks or their truth to the grave.


s: I wish one could know them, I wish there were tokens to tell


s: The fortunate fellows that now you can never discern;


s: And then one could talk with them friendly and wish them farewell


s: But now you may stare as you like and there's nothing to scan;


s: And brushing your elbow unguessed-at and not to be told


s: They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,


s: The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.


s: Fred keeps the house all kinds of weather,


s: Have willed more mischief than they durst:


s: 'Twould blow like this through holt and hanger


s: The thoughts that hurt him, they were there.


s: There, like the wind through woods in riot,


s: _ "Oh, sick I am to see you, will you never let me be?


s: You may be good for something, but you are not good for me.


s: Oh, go where you are wanted, for you are not wanted here." _


s: And that was all the farewell when I parted from my dear.


s: "I will go where I am wanted, to a lady born and bred


s: Who will dress me free for nothing in a uniform of red;


s: She will not be sick to see me if I only keep it clean:


s: I will go where I am wanted for a soldier of the Queen."


s: "I will go where I am wanted, for the sergeant does not mind;


s: He may be sick to see me but he treats me very kind:


s: He gives me beer and breakfast and a ribbon for my cap,


s: And I never knew a sweetheart spend her money on a chap."


s: "I will go where I am wanted, where there's room for one or two,


s: And the men are none too many for the work there is to do;


s: Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well,


s: From strangers' faces, strangers' lands,-


s: Hand, you have held true fellows' hands.


s: It fanned their temples, filled their lungs,


s: My friends made words of it with tongues


s: Now through the friendless world we fare


s: Spring will not wait the loiterer's time


s: Shared their short-lived comrade's pain.


s: And till they drop they needs must still


s: "When shall this slough of sense be cast,


s: "This tongue that talks, these lungs that shout,


s: This brain that fills the skull with schemes,


s: And flesh and soul, now both are strong,


s: Oh you had forethought, you could reason,


s: The soul that should not have been born.


s: You would not live to wrong your brothers:


s: Now to your grave shall friend and stranger


s: Turn safe to rest, no dreams, no waking;


s: And here, man, here's the wreath I've made:


s: 'Tis not a gift that's worth the taking,


s: 'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you,


s: Or shrivelled flax, whose flower is blue


s: -Oh, bring from hill and stream and plain


s: Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,


s: Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.


s: Think rather,-call to thought, if now you grieve a little,


s: The days when we had rest, O soul, for they were long.


s: Men loved unkindness then, but lightless in the quarry


s: I slept and saw not; tears fell down, I did not mourn;


s: Sweat ran and blood sprang out and I was never sorry:


s: Then it was well with me, in days ere I was born.


s: Now, and I muse for why and never find the reason,


s: I pace the earth, and drink the air, and feel the sun.


s: Be still, be still, my soul; it is but for a season:


s: Let us endure an hour and see injustice done.


s: Ay, look: high heaven and earth ail from the prime foundation;


s: All thoughts to rive the heart are here, and all are vain:


s: Horror and scorn and hate and fear and indignation-


s: Oh why did I awake? when shall I sleep again?


s: "Well met," I thought the look would say,


s: "Oh do you breathe, lad, that your breast


s: The star-filled seas are smooth to-night


s: And faith, 'tis pleasant till 'tis past:


s: They shook, they stared as white's their shirt:


s: My San Francisco on her seven hills is smiling,


s: There is a magic in her bracing air beguiling,


s: The tingling tang of open sea the breeze is giving;


s: The fog rolls in and drives heat languors out,


s: And thrills her loyal subjects with the joy of living,


s: When in the valleys, fervent summer heat oppresses,


s: There is a City that the cooling fog caresses,


s: When winter rains and sun have wrought in fragrant flowers


s: A charm is in her circling hills and redwood bowers


s: She has a mystic charm in all the changing seasons--


s: A lure that brings the stranger to her door,


s: And in these pages I will give the Indian's reasons


s: For charms and lures, never told before.


s: The legends of the hills, the fog, the gulls, the waters


s: Allow me, therefore, California's Native Daughters,


s: Some with scales, or shells, or bristles.


s: Dressed the furs and tanned the buckskin,


s: And the flames and sparks leaped upward,


s: Seize your strong bows, fill your quivers


s: Stamped and shouted, waved their war clubs,


s: All the rocks were stained with crimson.


s: No more would her strong young shoulders


s: Bind the wounds nor stanch the bleeding.


s: 'We are lost,' they moaned, 'Their number


s: And the young Chief spoke, and answered,


s: Strike the mountain! Strike the mountain!'


s: Rose and fell, and swayed and shuddered;


s: Through the steam and sulphurous vapors,


s: Roam the hillsides, tread the wildwoods,


s: Waits with outstretched arms, to greet me.


s: Would you know what brings the westwind,


s: Turned their eyes from Maids to Chieftain.


s: Shrieked their warning, 'They are coming!'


s: Long bows, strong bows, wrapped with sinews,


s: Stone head war clubs, wrapped with rawhide;


s: Through the changing clouds, and lighting


s: Through the night they watched and waited--


s: Bring the west-wind! Bring the fogbanks!'


s: Draw your mantles around your shoulders,


s: Furs they are, but flowers they shall be.


s: Then he said, "They still are searching,


s: Seethed and boiled in whirlpool currents.


s: Thus they mourned, and prayed the Father,


s: Where the Sea King could not reach them.


s: 'Give us wings,' they prayed 'On pinions


s: And their children changed to Sea Gulls.


s: Through the lightning of the storm-clouds,


s: Then a voice spoke from the storm-clouds,


s: And the sun-rays, piercing through them,


s: I said , "Tell me, friend, by what magic


s: Are wild creatures called to your camp-fire.


s: Of birds that made nests in the oak trees,


s: They came from afar when she called them,


s: She bound up their wounds and caressed them,


s: The ancient and widespreading live oaks,


s: And called to the wild forest creatures,


s: The frightened fawn crept for protection.


s: Will draw the wild creatures around you.


s: The charm that the Great Spirit gives you.


s: Zarando, their chief ruled with justice;


s: Their village grew up where the oak trees


s: The judgments she gave in their quarrels.


s: And that water-birds come at their calling,


s: I  Motives to the present work--Reception of the Author's first


s: publication--Discipline of his taste at school--Effect of


s: contemporary writers on youthful minds--Bowles's Sonnets-


s: Comparison between the poets before and since


s: II   Supposed irritability of genius brought to the test of


s: facts--Causes and occasions of the charge--Its injustice


s: III  The Author's obligations to Critics, and the probable


s: occasion--Principles of modern criticism--Mr. Southey's


s: IV  The Lyrical Ballads with the Preface--Mr. Wordsworth's


s: earlier poems--On Fancy and Imagination--The investigation


s: of the distinction important to the Fine Arts


s: V  On the law of Association--Its history traced from Aristotle


s: VI  That Hartley's system, as far as it differs from that of


s: Aristotle, is neither tenable in theory, nor founded


s: VII  Of the necessary consequences of the Hartleian Theory--Of


s: the original mistake or equivocation which procured its


s: VIII  The system of Dualism introduced by Des Cartes--Refined


s: first by Spinoza and afterwards by Leibnitz into the


s: doctrine of Harmonia praestabilita--Hylozoism--Materialism


s: --None of these systems, or any possible theory of


s: Association, supplies or supersedes a theory of


s: Perception, or explains the formation of the Associable


s: XI  Is Philosophy possible as a science, and what are its


s: conditions?--Giordano Bruno--Literary Aristocracy, or the


s: existence of a tacit compact among the learned as a


s: privileged order--The Author's obligations to the Mystics-


s: To Immanuel Kant--The difference between the letter and


s: The spirit of Kant's writings, and a vindication of


s: Prudence in the teaching of Philosophy--Fichte's attempt


s: to complete the Critical system-Its partial success and


s: ultimate failure--Obligations to Schelling; and among


s: X  A Chapter of digression and anecdotes, as an interlude


s: preceding that on the nature and genesis of the Imagination


s: or Plastic Power--On Pedantry and pedantic expressions--


s: Advice to young authors respecting publication--Various


s: anecdotes of the Author's literary life, and the progress


s: of his opinions in Religion and Politics


s: XI  An affectionate exhortation to those who in early life feel


s: XIII  On the Imagination, or Esemplastic power


s: XIV  Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally


s: proposed--Preface to the second edition--The ensuing


s: controversy, its causes and acrimony--Philosophic


s: definitions of a Poem and Poetry with scholia


s: XV  The specific symptoms of poetic power elucidated in a


s: Critical analysis of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, and


s: XVI  Striking points of difference between the Poets of the


s: present age and those of the fifteenth and sixteenth


s: centuries--Wish expressed for the union of the


s: XVII  Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth--


s: Rustic life (above all, low and rustic life) especially


s: unfavourable to the formation of a human diction-The


s: best parts of language the product of philosophers, not of


s: clowns or shepherds--Poetry essentially ideal and generic--


s: The language of Milton as much the language of real life,


s: yea, incomparably more so than that of the cottager


s: --Its necessary consequences, and the conditions thereby


s: imposed on the metrical writer in the choice of his diction


s: XIX  Continuation--Concerning the real object, which, it is


s: probable, Mr. Wordsworth had before him in his critical


s: preface--Elucidation and application of this


s: XX  The former subject continued--The neutral style, or that


s: common to Prose and Poetry, exemplified by specimens from


s: XXI  Remarks on the present mode of conducting critical journals


s: XXII  The characteristic defects of Wordsworth's poetry, with the


s: is deduced--Their proportion to the beauties--For the


s: greatest part characteristic of his theory only


s: Motives to the present work--Reception of the Author's first


s: It has been my lot to have had my name introduced both in


s: In the spring of 1796, when I had but little passed the verge of


s: manhood, I published a small volume of juvenile poems. They were


s: insinuated themselves into my longer poems with such intricacy of


s: Be this as it may, there was one custom of our master's, which I


s: discipline, my mind had undergone, Ne falleretur rotundo sono et


s: versuum cursu, cincinnis, et floribus; sed ut inspiceret quidnam


s: subesset, quae, sedes, quod firmamentum, quis fundus verbis; an


s: figures essent mera ornatura et orationis fucus; vel sanguinis e


s: disciplined by the same manners, possess a reality for him, and


s: inspire an actual friendship as of a man for a man. His very


s: admiration is the wind which fans and feeds his hope. The poems


s: There are indeed modes of teaching which have produced, and are


s: Armoury of the invincible knights of old--


s: storing the memory, during the period when the memory is the


s: predominant faculty, with facts for the after exercise of the


s: Ingenium celebrare meum, calamumque solebat,


s: Calcar agens animo validum. Non omnia terra


s: Obruta; vivit amor, vivit dolor; ora negatur


s: Dulcia conspicere; at fiere et meminisse relictum est.


s: It was a double pleasure to me, and still remains a tender


s: Poetry--(though for a school-boy of that age, I was above par in


s: English versification, and had already produced two or three


s: Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate,


s: Fixed fate, free will, fore-knowledge absolute,


s: And found no end in wandering mazes lost.


s: This preposterous pursuit was, beyond doubt, injurious both to my


s: doubtless undervalued the kind, and with the presumption of youth


s: translated into the language of poetry. On this last point, I had


s: The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,


s: Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind!


s: With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails,


s: Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!


s: Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows


s: While proudly riding o'er the azure realm


s: Youth at the prow and pleasure at the helm;


s: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway,


s: That hush'd in grim repose, expects it's evening prey.


s: imitation it depended wholly on the compositor's putting, or not


s: Before my fancy's eye shall memory bring,--


s: The reader must make himself acquainted with the general style of


s: imagery. The reader will find them in the note  below, and will I


s: I have often thought, that it would be neither uninstructive nor


s: A debility and dimness of the imaginative power, and a consequent


s: Tho' that may burn, and this may freeze,


s: imagination the ever-varying form; the latter must impress their


s: benevolence of nature to sheltered navies; or in aqueducts that,


s: Your name from hence immortal life shall have,


s: Tho' I once gone to all the world must die;


s: The earth can yield me but a common grave,


s: When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie.


s: Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read;


s: And tongues to be your being shall rehearse,


s: When all the breathers of this world are dead:


s: You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen,


s: Where breath most breathes, e'en in the mouth of men.


s: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,


s: Bound for the praise of all-too-precious you,


s: That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,


s: Making their tomb, the womb wherein they grew?


s: Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write


s: Above a mortal pitch that struck me dead?


s: No, neither he, nor his compeers by night


s: Which nightly gulls him with intelligence,


s: But when your countenance fill'd up his line,


s: Then lack'd I matter, that enfeebled mine.


s: Darkness before, and danger's voice behind,--


s: listening to the music of his own thoughts, or if additionally


s: cheered, yet cheered only by the prophetic faith of two or three


s: solitary individuals, he did nevertheless


s: Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot


s: Of heart or hope; but still bore up and steer'd


s: analogon of genius, which, in certain states of society, may even


s: conformation of body, obtuse pain, or constitutional defect of


s: But, alas! the multitude of books and the general diffusion of


s: their guard. And hence individuals below mediocrity not less in


s: natural power than in acquired knowledge; nay, bunglers who have


s: passions of mankind . But as it is the nature of scorn, envy, and


s: circumstances, such considerations must needs be. Yet it never


s: Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier


s: unintermitting as that of poetry; and indeed as that of literary


s: experience. I have laid too many eggs in the hot sands of this


s: The Author's obligations to critics, and the probable occasion--


s: To anonymous critics in reviews, magazines, and news-journals of


s: various name and rank, and to satirists with or without a name in


s: Whatever may have been the case with others, I certainly cannot


s: attribute this persecution to personal dislike, or to envy, or to


s: before they were known as authors, I have had little other


s: grounds of my belief, rather than the belief itself; and not to


s: express dissent, till I could establish some points of complete


s: Lastly, with as little semblance of reason, could I suspect any


s: Harrington, Machiavel, and Spinoza, are not read, because Hume,


s: transfers, rather than removes the difficulty. Be it, that, by an


s: preceding, but by greater splendour, a deeper pathos, profounder


s: interest:" or from dedication to Monarch or Pontiff, in which the


s: -si d'alloi megaloi: to d'eschaton kory-


s: there was a gradual sinking in the etiquette or allowed style of


s: Poets and Philosophers, rendered diffident by their very number,


s: qualifications which adapt their oriental brethren for the


s: "A Book was writ of late called Tetrachordon;"


s: and, as characteristic of his rhythm and metre, cite his literal


s: translation of the first and second Psalm! In order to justify


s: yourself, you need only assert, that had you dwelt chiefly on the


s: information, such as experience would not have authorized me in


s: anticipating. And as to compositions which the authors themselves


s: why should we judge by a different rule two printed works, only


s: because the one author is alive, and the other in his grave? What


s: conceive by what perversity of judgment, these relaxations of his


s: finished pictures in one splendid fancy piece, in which,


s: notwithstanding, the moral grandeur rises gradually above the


s: brilliance of the colouring and the boldness and novelty of the


s: controversial writings, Milton, claiming the privilege of self-


s: defence, asserts of himself, and challenges his calumniators to


s: I have wandered far from the object in view, but as I fancied to


s: volumes altogether. Others more catholic in their taste, and yet


s: proportion to the elevation of his style and subject. Not a few,


s: In the critical remarks, therefore, prefixed and annexed to the


s: possessed both genius and a powerful intellect, they felt very


s: That this conjecture is not wide from the mark, I am induced to


s: believe from the noticeable fact, which I can state on my own


s: However this may be, it was assuredly hard and unjust to fix the


s: and that this bare and bald counterfeit of poetry, which is


s: continue as undecided as  that between Bacchus and the frogs in


s: During the last year of my residence at Cambridge, 1794, I became


s: 'Tis storm; and hid in mist from hour to hour,


s: All day the floods a deepening murmur pour;


s: The sky is veiled, and every cheerful sight


s: Dark is the region as with coming night;


s: Yet what a sudden burst of overpowering light!


s: Glances the fire-clad eagle's wheeling form;


s: Eastward, in long perspective glittering, shine


s: The wood-crowned cliffs that o'er the lake recline;


s: Those Eastern cliffs a hundred streams unfold,


s: At once to pillars turned that flame with gold;


s: Behind his sail the peasant strives to shun


s: The west, that burns like one dilated sun,


s: The mountains, glowing hot, like coals of fire.


s: heterogeneous elements, which had only a temporary use, they


s: reflection and human associations had given both variety, and an


s: additional interest to natural objects, which, in the passion and


s: illogical phrases, at once hackneyed and fantastic, which hold so


s: incongruity . I did not perceive anything particular in the mere


s: collective, unconscious good sense working progressively to


s: desynonymize  those words originally of the same meaning, which


s: succeed in establishing the actual existence of two faculties


s: Lutes, laurels, seas of milk, and ships of amber,


s: What! have his daughters brought him to this pass?


s: Wordsworth has himself given, will be found to differ from mine,


s: chiefly, perhaps as our objects are different. It could scarcely


s: themselves above ground, and are visible to the naked eye of our


s: miscellany as this can authorize; when in such a work (the


s: conveyed in such a form, as is calculated either to effect a


s: On the law of Association--Its history traced from Aristotle to


s: There have been men in all ages, who have been impelled as by an


s: instinct to propose their own nature as a problem, and who devote


s: established between the voluntary and the spontaneous. In our


s: determining cause, and sometimes our nature seemed to act by a


s: First, then, I deny Hobbes's claim in toto: for he had been


s: importance, Hobbes builds nothing on the principle which he had


s: impressions that are left, (or in the language of Mr. Hume, the


s: ideas,) are linked together. Whenever therefore any one of the


s: representare." To time therefore he subordinates all the other


s: exciting causes of association. The soul proceeds "a causa ad


s: Hobbes; nor of nervous or animal spirits, where inanimate and


s: irrational solids are thawed down, and distilled, or filtrated by


s: operations of thought, whether representations or volitions, as


s: attributes utterly and absurdly heterogeneous.


s: The general law of association, or, more accurately, the common


s: successive; second, vicinity or connection in space; third,


s: remainder seemed to be in the Rabbinical dialect. All trick or


s: possession. She added, that he was a very learned man and a great


s: This authenticated case furnishes both proof and instance, that


s: comprehensive, it would require only a different and apportioned


s: Hartleian process has been rejected by his followers, and the


s: ourselves to have surmounted, and "at one bound high overleap all


s: That goes with screws, the notion of a notion;


s: That counterfeits all pantomimic tricks,


s: And turns the eyes, like an old crucifix;


s: By another name, and makes it true or false;


s: Turns truth to falsehood, falsehood into truth,


s: The inventor of the watch, if this doctrine be true, did not in


s: sensation of proceeding life (nisus vitalis) associated with the


s: Far, very far am I from burthening with the odium of these


s: proceeded from the heart. But whether they be such, no man can be


s: When they within this gross and visible sphere


s: Chain down the winged thought, scoffing ascent,


s: Proud in their meanness; and themselves they cheat


s: Self-working tools, uncaus'd effects, and all


s: Those blind omniscients, those almighty slaves,


s: The attention will be more profitably employed in attempting to


s: discover and expose the paralogisms, by the magic of which such a


s: The system of Dualism introduced by Des Cartes--Refined first by


s: Spinoza and afterwards by Leibnitz into the doctrine of Harmonia


s: systematizer of the Leibnitzian doctrine, contents himself with


s: answers no purpose; unless, indeed, a difficulty can be solved by


s: materialism; a system which could not but be patronized by the


s: deducing and concluding would equally demand an explanation; and


s: Thus, as materialism has been generally taught, it is utterly


s: unintelligible, and owes all its proselytes to the propensity so


s: intelligible as far as my present subject requires, it will be


s: associated.--2. That the hypothesis of an external world exactly


s: inexplicable swarm and equivocal generation of motions in our own


s: pusillanimity, which lifts up the idol of a mortal's fancy and


s: Obligations to Schelling; and among English writers to Saumarez.


s: observe, to collect, and to classify. But I soon felt, that human


s: consequences and cleared of all inconsistencies, was not less


s: impracticable than contranatural. Assume in its full extent the


s: position, nihil in intellectu quod non prius in sensu, assume it


s: Innumerabili and the "De la causa, principio et uno," of the


s: Cogito; a philosophy of seeming hardihood, but certainly the most


s: intellectual powers were never stimulated into feverous energy by


s: transgressor. The few men of genius among the learned class, who


s: penetration to the inmost centre, from which all the lines of


s: money-changers were suffered to make a den of thieves.


s: contention,--I love peace: the souls of men are dear unto me: yet


s: And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek?


s: --a sophism, which I fully agree with Warburton, is unworthy of


s: commentator, the pious and fervid William Law.


s: opinions, would have seemed to me like the denial of a debt, the


s: degenerated into a crude  egoismus, a boastful and hyperstoic


s: hostility to Nature, as lifeless, godless, and altogether unholy:


s: ordinans, which we were permitted exoterice to call GOD; and his


s: I have introduced this statement, as appropriate to the narrative


s: learnt from him. In this instance, as in the dramatic lectures of


s: public. Nor is this coincidence at all to be wondered at. We had


s: obligations to the polar logic and dynamic philosophy of Giordano


s: introduced (in a more philosophical form, and freed from all its


s: however, on whom (for the greater part) their master's cloak had


s: fallen without, or with a very scanty portion of, his spirit, had


s: mechanics. With exception of one or two fundamental ideas, which


s: reference to dates. For readers in general, let whatever shall be


s: references to his books, which I could not at all times make with


s: superfluous; be not charged on me as an ungenerous concealment or


s: propositum studiorum, nisi mature corrigitur, tam magnum rebus


s: audience for abstrusest themes, and truths that can neither be


s: communicated nor received without effort of thought, as well as


s: "Che s'io non erro al calcolar de' punti,


s: E'l Somaro e'l Castron si sian congiunti.


s: Che se allora un sol huom sembrava un Asino,


s: Mille Asini a' miei di rassembran huomini!"


s: "Esemplastic. The word is not in Johnson, nor have I met with it


s: Sinensis the oxyd of hydrogen saturated with caloric. To use the


s: authority of our genuine divines and philosophers, before the


s: Fancy and understanding; whence the soul


s: Reason receives, and reason is her bring,


s: Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours,


s: Differing but in degree, in kind the same.


s: I say, that I was confirmed by authority so venerable: for I had


s: Secondly, I warn all others from the attempt to deviate from the


s: necessaries of life had been furnished, in buying books, or in


s: REDEMPTION. The work was most severely handled in THE MONTHLY or


s: advertisements, carriage, and so forth, so much."--Still nothing


s: amiss. Selleridge (for orthography is no necessary part of a


s: bookseller's literary acquirements) L3. 3s. "Bless me! only three


s: warehouse-room in our book cellar." The work was in consequence


s: gentleman used to tell the anecdote with great humour and still


s: With equal lack of worldly knowledge, I was a far more than equal


s: preaching by the way in most of the great towns, as an hireless


s: believed to be the truth, and the will of my Maker. I cannot even


s: My campaign commenced at Birmingham; and my first attack was on a


s: pathetic to the indignant. I argued, I described, I promised, I


s: The massive gates of Paradise are thrown


s: Wide open, and forth come in fragments wild


s: And odours snatched from beds of amaranth,


s: And they, that from the crystal river of life


s: Spring up on freshened wing, ambrosial gales!


s: My taper man of lights listened with perseverant and praiseworthy


s: This, I have said, was my second and last attempt. On returning


s: piece. At the ninth number I dropt the work. But from the London


s: I now devoted myself to poetry and to the study of ethics and


s: psychology; and so profound was my admiration at this time of


s: Hartley's ESSAY ON MAN, that I gave his name to my first-born. In


s: Now that the hand of Providence has disciplined all Europe into


s: enthusiasts who, flattered by the morning rainbow of the French


s: If in Spain too disappointment has nipped our too forward


s: principle contains in itself the germs of a prophecy; and, as the


s: fulfilment of its oracles supplies the outward and, (to men in


s: general,) the only test of its claim to the title. Wearisome as


s: And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining.


s: Our very sign-boards, (said an illustrious friend to me,) give


s: journals at present, and for some years past.


s: Whether the spirit of jacobinism, which the writings of Burke


s: surveillance of myself and friend. There must have been not only


s: reflections on men, nature, and society, yet supply in itself a


s: natural connection to the parts, and unity to the whole. Such a


s: cathedrals into stables, destroyed the rarest trophies of art and


s: A long interval of quiet succeeded; or rather, the exhaustion had


s: indifference among the many, and a tendency to infidelity or


s: scepticism in the educated classes. At length those feelings of


s: philosophy, once more rose triumphant and effected the French


s: Slaves by their own compulsion! In mad game


s: They break their manacles, to wear the name


s: But thou nor swell'st the victor's pomp, nor ever


s: Didst breathe thy soul in forms of human power!


s: Alike from all, howe'er they praise thee,


s: (Nor prayer nor boastful name delays thee)


s: And factious Blasphemy's obscener slaves,


s: The guide of homeless winds and playmate of the waves!


s: distinguished from the FATE of certain ancient philosophers in no


s: Bringeth the ore out of the earth, and darkness into light.


s: We have heard the rumour thereof from afar!


s: He surveyeth what is beneath the heavens!


s: And as he weighed out the winds, and measured the sea,


s: And with a line did he compass it round!


s: The fear of the Lord is wisdom for thee!


s: The understanding meantime suggests, the analogy of experience


s: facilitates, the belief. Nature excites and recalls it, as by a


s: philosophy. The admission of the Logos, as hypostasized (that is,


s: according to his own confession the books of certain Platonic


s: Heidelberg. But my chief efforts were directed towards a grounded


s: Tychsen I received as many lessons in the Gothic of Ulphilas as


s: paraphrase of the gospel, and the most important remains of the


s: Within less than a century after Luther's death the German was


s: qualified approbation of the opposition, and with far greater


s: pledge, that genuine impartiality with a respectable portion of


s: notorious of these mob-sycophants! From the commencement of the


s: Things of this nature scarce survive that night


s: That gives them birth; they perish in the sight;


s: Cast by so far from after-life, that there


s: Can scarcely aught be said, but that they were!


s: appetite was omnivorous, and preyed equally on a Duc d'Enghien ,


s: and the writer of a newspaper paragraph. Like a true vulture ,


s: practical results of such principles, we owe to that fortunate


s: recantation even from the Morning Chronicle, which had previously


s: To have lived in vain must be a painful thought to any man, and


s: laboured altogether in vain, that from the articles written by me


s: though the least flattering to an author's self-love, had been


s: But are books the only channel through which the stream of


s: intellectual usefulness can flow? Is the diffusion of truth to be


s: feelings, or the gratification they derive from thinking


s: comparatively, and in proportion to the claims, which others are


s: And fears self-willed that shunned the eye of hope;


s: And hope that scarce would know itself from fear;


s: Sense of past youth, and manhood come in vain,


s: And genius given and knowledge won in vain;


s: And all which I had culled in wood-walks wild,


s: And all which patient toil had reared, and all,


s: Commune with thee had opened out--but flowers


s: Strewed on my corpse, and borne upon my bier,


s: In the same coffin, for the self-same grave!


s: Affectus animi varios, bellumque sequacis


s: Perlegis invidiae, curasque revolvis inanes,


s: Quas humilis tenero stylus olim effudit in aevo.


s: Perlegis et lacrymas, et quod pharetratus acuta


s: Ille puer puero fecit mihi cuspide vulnus.


s: Vivendoque simul morimur, rapimurque manendo.


s: Ipse mihi collatus enim non ille videbor;


s: Frons alia est, moresque alii, nova mentis imago,


s: Vox aliudque sonat--Jamque observatio vitae


s: Multa dedit--lugere nihil, ferre omnia; jamque


s: Paulatim lacrymas rerum experientia tersit.


s: beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: never pursue


s: manufactory or counting house, from the law-court, or from having


s: Dear tranquil time, when the sweet sense of Home


s: to your family, prepared for its social enjoyments, with the very


s: Roscoe, are at once decisive of the question."


s: strictest performance of professional duties. Among the numerous


s: conspired with the freedom of the government to double all its


s: salutary powers by the removal of its abuses.


s: Of moral prudence, with delight received


s: department of human knowledge without some bearing on the various


s: relate the origin or first excitement of all the literature and


s: Et Pater Aeneas et avunculus excitat Hector.


s: sympathize. He learns to manage his genius more prudently and


s: permit, but require such ample documents from the biography of


s: faithful discharge, but with the highest honours and honourable


s: gaebe. Ein Mensch, der nur lieset um zu druecken, lieset


s: A chapter of requests and premonitions concerning the perusal or


s: penetration. Therefore, utterly baffled in all my attempts to


s: In lieu of the various requests which the anxiety of authorship


s: videlicet, to preserve themselves uniformly tranquil and in good


s: spirits. Till I had discovered the art of destroying the memory a


s: subordination and apt arrangement: to such a mind I would as


s: Vir bonus es, doctus, prudens; ast haud tibi spiro.


s: Still less dare a favourable perusal be anticipated from the


s: encircles the scanty vale of human life, is the horizon for the


s: supply . How and whence to these thoughts, these strong


s: Likewise in the fifth book of the fifth Ennead, speaking of the


s: contemplate the man of simple and disinterested goodness with


s: fulfilment; for man must either rise or sink.


s: intuitive of the spiritual in man (i.e. of that which lies on the


s: understanding itself is but the shadowy abstraction of living and


s: element of their being, the tremulous reciprocations of which


s: The history of philosophy (the same writer observes) contains


s: interpreted, however, they have not produced the effect, which


s: Leibnitz himself, in a most instructive passage, describes as the


s: regularity and a coincidence of all the parts in the very object,


s: question will be, by what right is it demanded? On this account I


s: introduction of Postulates in philosophy. The word postulate is


s: But here an important distinction presents itself. Philosophy is


s: philosophic energy. To theoroun mou, theoraema poiei, osper oi


s: geometrai theorountes graphousin; all' emon mae graphousaes,


s: contemplating describe lines correspondent; but I not describing


s: The postulate of philosophy and at the same time the test of


s: philosophic capacity, is no other than the heaven-descended KNOW


s: THYSELF! (E coelo descendit, Gnothi seauton). And this at once


s: representation with the object represented.


s: unconscious. Our problem is to explain this concurrence, its


s: intelligence can supervene to it, or how itself can grow into


s: philosophy, the one of the two poles of fundamental science.


s: and final aim, than in its proper objects, which are not as in


s: principles of knowledge, and the final test of truth.


s: Now these essential prejudices are all reducible to the one


s: The other position, which not only claims but necessitates the


s: admission of its immediate certainty, equally for the scientific


s: identity is the office and object of his philosophy.


s: It is to the true and original realism, that I would direct the


s: application, and for the particular purpose may be sufficiently


s: authenticated by the result, before it has itself been fully


s: Truth is correlative to being. Knowledge without a correspondent


s: power, which renders the movement harmonious and cyclical.


s: We are to seek therefore for some absolute truth capable of


s: SCHOLIUM. If we affirm of a board that it is blue, the predicate


s: thing, is no less a contradiction, than an infinite circle or a


s: But neither can the principle be found in a subject as a subject,


s: SCHOLIUM. If a man be asked how he knows that he is? he can only


s: answer, sum quia sum. But if (the absoluteness of this certainty


s: having been admitted) he be again asked, how he, the individual


s: But if we elevate our conception to the absolute self, the great


s: If then I know myself only through myself, it is contradictory to


s: identity of object and of representation; for herein consists the


s: principle of the ultimate science alone, i.e. of transcendental


s: natural philosophy, which is its opposite pole. In its very idea


s: therefore as a systematic knowledge of our collective KNOWING,


s: consciousness. We are not investigating an absolute principium


s: principle of a total and undivided philosophy, as, for prudential


s: consciousness may be the modification of a higher form of being,


s: agency, and application of which form the contents of the ensuing


s: plurimis rejiciantur, quippe quorum, secundum leges cognitionis


s: abstractas, illas in concreto exsequi et in intuitus commutare


s: Critics, who are most ready to bring this charge of pedantry and


s: philosophy, may furnish an equal, and (caeteris paribus) even a


s: stronger presumption against their own philosophic talent.


s: tenets defended by Hume, Priestley, and the French fatalists or


s: But the worst and widest impediment still remains. It is the


s: reason, vis theoretica et scientifica, or the power by which we


s: general. To aggregate and to associate, to evoke and to combine,


s: different. But it will probably appear in the next chapter, that


s: On the imagination, or esemplastic power


s: All things proceed, and up to him return,


s: Such to perfection, one first matter all,


s: Endued with various forms, various degrees


s: Of substance, and, in things that live, of life;


s: But more refin'd, more spiritous and pure,


s: As nearer to him plac'd, or nearer tending,


s: Each in their several active spheres assigu'd,


s: Proportion'd to each kind. So from the root


s: Springs lighter the green stalk, from thence the leaves


s: More aery: last the bright consummate flower


s: Spirits odorous breathes: flowers and their fruit,


s: Man's nourishment, by gradual scale sublim'd,


s: To intellectual!--give both life and sense,


s: Fancy and understanding; whence the soul


s: REASON receives, and reason is her being,


s: The venerable sage of Koenigsberg has preceded the march of this


s: master-thought as an effective pioneer in his essay on the


s: mathematics by metaphysics, as Berkeley did in his ANALYST, or of


s: establishing and pacifying the unsettled, warring, and embroiled


s: domain of philosophy. An imitation of the mathematical method had


s: infinite, both alike indestructible. The problem will then be to


s: reasoning, it will then remain for us to elevate the thesis from


s: "You ask my opinion concerning your Chapter on the Imagination,


s: "As to myself, and stating in the first place the effect on my


s: "The effect on my feelings, on the other hand, I cannot better


s: shadows, while everywhere shadows were deepened into substances:


s: If substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd,


s: A tale obscure of high and passionate thoughts


s: winding steps of an old ruined tower. Secondly, a still stronger


s: FANCY, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but


s: attempt. But Mr. Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more


s: successful, and the number of his poems so much greater, that my


s: compositions, instead of forming a balance, appeared rather an


s: length; in which, notwithstanding some passages of apparently a


s: opinions, and of alarm at their consequences, produced an eddy of


s: philosophy. But having so done, we must then restore them in our


s: proposed. According to the difference of the object will be the


s: demonstrable, as in works of science; or of facts experienced and


s: species of composition, which is opposed to works of science, by


s: likewise entertaining or affecting, as a tale, or as a series of


s: interesting reflections; I of course admit this as another fit


s: collects rapidly the general result unattracted by the component


s: concrete; the idea with the image; the individual with the


s: representative; the sense of novelty and freshness with old and


s: Doubtless this could not be, but that she turns


s: Bodies to spirit by sublimation strange,


s: As fire converts to fire the things it burns,


s: From their gross matter she abstracts their forms,


s: And draws a kind of quintessence from things;


s: Which to her proper nature she transforms


s: To bear them light on her celestial wings.


s: Thus does she, when from individual states


s: Which then re-clothed in divers names and fates


s: Steal access through the senses to our minds.


s: The specific symptoms of poetic power elucidated in a critical


s: analysis of Shakespeare's VENUS AND ADONIS, and RAPE of LUCRECE.


s: In the application of these principles to purposes of practical


s: criticism, as employed in the appraisement of works more or less


s: characteristics of original poetic genius in general.


s: indifferently with ideal beauty; till his wife, elated by her


s: husband's praises, modestly acknowledged that she had been his


s: characters themselves, and the whole representation of those


s: thousand outward images, and now beautiful, now fanciful


s: Which shoots its being through earth, sea, and air.


s: In the two following lines for instance, there is nothing


s: objectionable, nothing which would preclude them from forming, in


s: Behold yon row of pines, that shorn and bow'd


s: Bend from the sea-blast, seen at twilight eve.


s: By twilight glimpse discerned, mark! how they flee


s: From the fierce sea-blast, all their tresses wild


s: "Full many a glorious morning have I seen


s: Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye."


s: "Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul


s: Of the wide world dreaming on things to come--


s: The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured,


s: And the sad augurs mock their own presage;


s: Incertainties now crown themselves assur'd,


s: And Peace proclaims olives of endless age.


s: Now with the drops of this most balmy time


s: My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes,


s: Since spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme,


s: While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes.


s: And thou in this shalt find thy monument,


s: When tyrants' crests, and tombs of brass are spent."


s: From you have I been absent in the spring,


s: When proud-pied April drest in all its trim,


s: Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing;


s: That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him.


s: Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell


s: Of different flowers in odour and in hue,


s: Or from their proud lap pluck them, where they grew


s: Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;


s: They were, tho' sweet, but figures of delight,


s: Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.


s: Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away,


s: As with your shadow, I with these did play!"


s: will the imagery supply, when, with more than the power of the


s: With this, he breaketh from the sweet embrace


s: Of those fair arms, which bound him to her breast,


s: And homeward through the dark laund runs apace;--


s: Look! how a bright star shooteth from the sky,


s: So glides he in the night from Venus' eye.


s: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue,


s: Which Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold,


s: Which Milton held. In everything we are sprung


s: Of earth's first blood, have titles manifold.


s: difference between the poetry of the fifteenth and sixteenth


s: centuries, and that of the present age. The remark may perhaps be


s: portraiture. In his diction and metre, on the other hand, he is


s: comparatively careless. The measure is either constructed on no


s: intelligent purpose. And the language from Pope's translation of


s: Homer, to Darwin's Temple of Nature , may, notwithstanding some


s: contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future


s: conquests. Animadverte, says Hobbes, quam sit ab improprietate


s: verborum pronum hominihus prolabi in errores circa ipsas res! Sat


s: Egregie vero J. C. Scaliger, in Lib. I. de Plantis: Est primum,


s: perfect simplicity. This their prime object they attained by the


s: Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth--Rustic life


s: language of impassioned feeling; he undertook a useful task, and


s: exceptions, from the mouths of men in real life, a language which


s: passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent


s: particular places or employments, the poet owes the show of


s: excellent remark of Dr. Henry More's, that "a man of confined


s: particularly unfortunate, as well as that of the many respectable


s: mountaineers, whose manners have been so often eulogized, are in


s: An old man stout of heart, and strong of limb.


s: His bodily frame had been from youth to age


s: Of an unusual strength: his mind was keen,


s: Intense, and frugal, apt for all affairs,


s: And in his shepherd's calling he was prompt


s: Hence he had learned the meaning of all winds,


s: When others heeded not, He heard the South


s: Make subterraneous music, like the noise


s: The Shepherd, at such warning, of his flock


s: Bethought him, and he to himself would say,


s: `The winds are now devising work for me!'


s: And truly, at all times, the storm, that drives


s: The traveller to a shelter, summoned him


s: That came to him and left him on the heights.


s: So lived he, until his eightieth year was past.


s: And grossly that man errs, who should suppose


s: That the green valleys, and the streams and rocks,


s: Were things indifferent to the Shepherd's thoughts.


s: Fields, where with cheerful spirits he had breathed


s: The common air; the hills, which he so oft


s: Had climbed with vigorous steps; which had impressed


s: Of hardship, skill or courage, joy or fear;


s: Which, like a book, preserved the memory


s: Had fed or sheltered, linking to such acts,


s: So grateful in themselves, the certainty


s: Of honourable gain; these fields, these hills


s: Than his own blood--what could they less? had laid


s: Strong hold on his affections, were to him


s: The pleasure which there is in life itself.


s: ; and the five following stanzas, with the exception of the four


s: justly said to form the best part of language. It is more than


s: probable, that many classes of the brute creation possess


s: capricious habits of expression;" it may be answered, that the


s: rustic, but for that of good sense and natural feeling.


s: Language of metrical composition, why and wherein essentially


s: different from that of prose--Origin and elements of metre--Its


s: necessary consequences, and the conditions thereby imposed on the


s: exclusively, as that class would use, or at least understand; but


s: subordinate and arrange the different parts according to their


s: relative importance, as to convey it at once, and as an organized


s: public road; a grown man I mean, that was neither sick nor hurt,"


s: One point then alone remains, but that the most important; its


s: subordinate importance. The number of such words would be small


s: indeed, in our language; and even in the Italian and Greek, they


s: accidentally appropriated to poetry by the general admiration of


s: certain master intellects, the first established lights of


s: inspiration, to whom that dialect happened to be native.


s: Essence, in its primary signification, means the principle of


s: thing, which really exists, is mathematically circular. Thus too,


s: supporters of the common belief. Mr. Wordsworth, in consequence,


s: "In vain to me the smiling mornings shine,


s: And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire;


s: The birds in vain their amorous descant join,


s: Or cheerful fields resume their green attire.


s: These ears, alas! for other notes repine;


s: _A different object do these eyes require;


s: My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine;


s: And in my breast the imperfect joys expire._


s: Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer,


s: And new-born pleasure brings to happier men;


s: The fields to all their wonted tribute bear;


s: To warm their little loves the birds complain:


s: _I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear,


s: And weep the more, because I weep in vain."_


s: An idealist defending his system by the fact, that when asleep we


s: heterogeneous in metrical poetry; and, vice versa, whether in the


s: present. There must be not only a partnership, but a union; an


s: expect, and the former bound to supply this species and degree of


s: "There is an art, which, in their piedness, shares


s: But nature makes that mean; so, o'er that art,


s: Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art,


s: That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry


s: Which does mend nature,--change it rather; but


s: The discussion on the powers of metre in the preface is highly


s: "Tell me, thou son of great Cadwallader!


s: Hast sent the hare? or hast thou swallow'd her?"


s: recollection, and consequently the preservation, of any series of


s: What clothes he might have left, or other property.


s: When last he sailed he left the Bird behind;


s: As it might be, perhaps, from bodings of his mind.


s: I trail it with me, Sir! he took so much delight in it."


s: "The simplest, and the most familiar things


s: Gain a strange power of spreading awe around them,")


s: Old times, thought I, are breathing there;


s: She begged an alms, like one in poor estate;


s: I looked at her again, nor did my pride abate."


s: technical chemistry), of mordaunt between it and the super-added


s: passion has its proper pulse, so will it likewise have its


s: objection, or rather on his objection to this reply, as already


s: Fourthly, and as intimately connected with this, if not the same


s: "A different object do these eyes require;


s: My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine;


s: And in my breast the imperfect joys expire."


s: thing, would be noticed as giving a poetic cast to a man's


s: conversation. Should the sportsman exclaim, "Come boys! the rosy


s: "And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire;--"


s: supernatural in nature, which had given them such dear delight in


s: His sevenfold teme behind the stedfast starre,


s: But firme is fixt and sendeth light from farre


s: To all that in the wild deep wandering arre


s: And chearfull chaunticlere with his note shrill


s: Had warned once that Phoebus' fiery carre


s: In hast was climbing up the easterne hill,


s: Full envious that night so long his roome did fill."


s: And Phoebus fresh, as brydegrome to his mate,


s: Came dauncing forth, shaking his deawie hayre,


s: And hurl'd his glist'ring beams through gloomy ayre:


s: Which when the wakeful elfe perceived, streightway


s: He started up, and did him selfe prepayre


s: In sun-bright armes and battailous array;


s: For with that pagan proud he combat will that day."


s: instructive, and even interesting work; but take the following


s: Discern the true discourse, vouchsafe to shew


s: What were the times foregoing near to these,


s: That these we may with better profit know.


s: Tell how the world fell into this disease;


s: And how so great distemperature did grow;


s: So shall we see with what degrees it came;


s: How things at full do soon wax out of frame."


s: "Ten kings had from the Norman Conqu'ror reign'd


s: When England to her greatest height attain'd


s: Of power, dominion, glory, wealth, and state;


s: "For first, the Norman, conqu'ring all by might,


s: By might was forc'd to keep what he had got;


s: Mixing our customs and the form of right


s: With foreign constitutions, he had brought;


s: Mast'ring the mighty, humbling the poorer wight,


s: By all severest means that could be wrought;


s: And, making the succession doubtful, rent


s: His new-got state, and left it turbulent."


s: "well-languaged Daniel;" but likewise, and by the consent of his


s: equally appropriate, dignified and euphonic.


s: poetic diction, arbitrary, and subject to infinite caprices, upon


s: differences of style it at once inspires and justifies; what


s: ornament or connection. For, even as truth is its own light and


s: evidence, discovering at once itself and falsehood, so is it the


s: present only the outlines and external appearance of the fruit. A


s: "Thee, eye of heaven! this great Soul envies not;


s: By thy male force is all, we have, begot.


s: In the first East thou now beginn'st to shine,


s: Suck'st early balm and island spices there,


s: And wilt anon in thy loose-rein'd career


s: At Tagus, Po, Seine, Thames, and Danow dine,


s: And see at night this western world of mine:


s: Yet hast thou not more nations seen than she,


s: And, thy frail light being quench'd, shall long, long outlive


s: For every thing! Who, where we offspring took,


s: Our ways and ends see'st at one instant: thou


s: Knot of all causes! Thou, whose changeless brow


s: Ne'er smiles nor frowns! O! vouchsafe thou to look,


s: And shew my story in thy eternal book," etc.


s: As little difficulty do we find in excluding from the honours of


s: And let the hills around reflect the image of thy voice.


s: The fair first-fruits of war, th' Olympic games,


s: But, oh! what man to join with these can worthy prove?


s: Join Theron boldly to their sacred names;


s: Is first in Pisa's and in Virtue's race;


s: Ev'n his own swift forefathers has outgone."


s: But the Olympiad (or the Olympic games) did Hercules establish,


s: Who preserves his native city erect and safe."


s: impressive or delightful forms to the inward vision, nor by any


s: condemnation of which no reason can be assigned, except that it


s: practicable, or capable of furnishing either rule, guidance, or


s: It might appear from some passages in the former part of Mr.


s: overwhelming  in its consequences, that I cannot, and I do not,


s: suffered himself to express, in terms at once too large and too


s: possible, that this predilection, at first merely comparative,


s: fables made on their first publication, or conduces more to their


s: colloquial language of elegant and unaffected women, (who are the


s: "And after this forth to the gate he wente,


s: Ther as Creseide out rode a ful gode pass,


s: And up and doun there made he many' a wente,


s: For sorow of whiche mine hert shall to-cleve;


s: And here I dwel, out-cast from ally joie,


s: And steal, til I maie sene her efte in Troie.


s: Than he was wonte, and that men saidin softe,


s: What may it be? who can the sothe gesse,


s: That every wight, that past him by the wey,


s: Had of him routhe, and that thei saien should,


s: And thus he drove a daie yet forth or twey,