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Then, I sang both versions to the disconsolate poet. And what a miracle! He was altogether reconciled, approved both versions, and did not know which one to choose. We ended with a patchwork. The two quatrains are in verses of ten feet, and the two tiercets in Alexandrine metre. Outside of our work, too, our relations were delightful.
In the thoroughly pagan poem, The Voyage of Bran, which such authorities as Zimmer and Kuno Meyer both consider to have been committed to parchment in the seventh century, we find it stated that Bran wrote the fifty or sixty quatrains of the poem in Ogam.
Read next another strictly Petrarchan sonnet, where the thought divisions of quatrains and tercets are marked with exceptional clearness, Eugene Lee-Hamilton's disillusioned "Sea-Shell Murmurs": "The hollow sea-shell that for years hath stood On dusty shelves, when held against the ear Proclaims its stormy parent; and we hear The faint far murmur of the breaking flood. "We hear the sea. The sea?
Dear Dr. Johnson had his doubts about Shakespeare, but here at least was poetry! This is one of the quatrains which he pronounces "worthy of our author." But Dryden himself has said that "a man who is resolved to praise an author with any appearance of justice must be sure to take him on the strongest side, and where he is least liable to exceptions."
"Nay, nay, but wait," she cried, with a gulp of laughter; "I have done that to Messer Cino, or can if I choose." She turned over the delicate pen-work in a hurry. "Here," she said eagerly, "read this!" Ugolino scampered through a couple of quatrains. "There's nothing out of common here," said he. "Go on, go on," said the girl, and nudged him to attend. Ugolino read the sestett:
'There are twenty-six more quatrains, said Merton. The bard went on, 'A beautiful game, most delightful They play 'Ping-pong? murmured Merton. 'Hush! said Lady Bude. Miss Macrae turned to the poet. 'They play, sitting at the luxurious wine, Men and gentle women under a bush, Without sin, without crime. 'They are playing still, Blake added. 'Unbeheld, undisturbed!
"O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing;" and "I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Has oftener left me mourning;" or in a still higher strain the six beautiful quatrains, page 134.
"Love, Hallo!" is a headlong springtime passion. Two of his latest songs are "Forever and a Day," with many original touches, and a "Song from Omar Khayyám," which is made of some of the most cynical of the tent-maker's quatrains. Harris has given them all their power and bitterness till the last line, "The flower that once has blown forever dies," which is written with rare beauty.
The Adirondacs. Occasional and Miscellaneous Pieces. Nature and Life. Elements. Quatrains. Translations. Some of these poems, which were written at long intervals, have been referred to in previous pages. "The Adirondacs" is a pleasant narrative, but not to be compared for its poetical character with "May-Day," one passage from which, beginning, "I saw the bud-crowned Spring go forth,"
He did not doubt that in a few weeks we should have her up and about again, but he warned me against letting her begin work too soon. "I would not," he said, "permit her to undertake any effort until she can inspire within one day of twelve hours at least eighteen quatrains, and those lucid, grammatical, and moving.
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