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With what lucidity had Michel Chrestien read into that soul, that heart, illumined by the fires of love! Thus the princess acquired, in d'Arthez's eyes, another charm; a halo of poesy surrounded her. As the dinner proceeded, Daniel called to mind the various confidences of his friend, his despair, his hopes, the noble poems of a true sentiment sung to his ear alone, in honor of this woman.
Going onwards in a kind of abstract reverie, he came to a halt again on reaching the shore, enchanted by the dreamy loveliness of the scene. In an open stretch of dazzling brilliancy the sea presented itself to his eyes like a delicate network of jewels finely strung on swaying threads of silver, and he gazed upon it as one might gaze on the "fairy lands forlorn" of Keats in his enchanting poesy.
"Tell me, young men," said the emperor, "have you no lines to read us you that have youth and beauty and sweethearts? How is it with you, good Vergilius?" The young man shook his head. "No," said he; "I have youth and a sweetheart, but not the gift of poesy." "No lines! What are we coming to in this Rome of ours? Are there no more poets?
"Hear then a mortal Muse thy praise rehearse In no ignoble verse, But such as thy own voice did practise here, When thy first fruits of poesy were given, To make thyself a welcome inmate there; While yet a young probationer And candidate of heaven." The ode was addressed to Anne, daughter of Dr.
So carefully equable, his mind nevertheless was stored with, and delighted in, incidents, personalities, of barbarous strength Esau, in all his phases the very rudest children or "our great and powerful mother, nature." As Plato had said, "'twas to no purpose for a sober-minded man to knock at the door of poesy," or, if truth were spoken, of any other high matter of doing or making.
Great has been the measure of thine inspiration, yet thou hast missed its true teaching, and of all the golden threads of poesy placed freely in thy hands thou hast not woven one clew whereby thou shouldst find God! Alas, Sah-lum! Bright soul unconscious of thy fate! ... Thou shalt be suddenly and roughly slain, and THERE sits thy destroyer!"
From that time we do not meet any more with Clement Marot in war or politics; to Marguerite de Valois, to adventures of gallantry, and to success in his mundane line of poesy his life was thenceforth devoted.
I would have talked with her; I would have suggested images of poesy, and thoughts of beauty; I would have whispered the word of sentiment the delicate allusion the breathing of the soul that longs to find a congenial heart the sorrows and aspirations of the wounded spirit, stricken and sad, yet not QUITE despairing; still knowing that the hope-plant lurked in its crushed ruins still able to gaze on the stars and the ocean, and love their blazing sheen, their boundless azure.
The Brownings were already at Casa Guidi, still noted in the annals of English poesy, and called upon the Hawthornes at the first notice of their arrival. Alacrity or readiness would seem to have been one of Robert Browning's prominent characteristics.
Out upon these vandals, I say out upon the barbarians who would rob angling of its poesy, and reduce it to the level of the butcher's trade!
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