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Updated: May 29, 2025
She had tried to read Mrs. Sigourney's "Poems" and Pollok's "Course of Time," but had not enjoyed them much. She was not imaginative. She had plenty of feeling, but no sentiment, for sentiment is feeling that has been thought over; and her life was too entirely objective to allow her to think of her own feelings.
Yes, continued he, seating himself upon the sofa by her side, and passing his arm about her throbbing waist, 'yes, you are my muse my only volume. You are the inspiration of the poetical trifles that I send to the weekly newspapers, and which I may say, without vanity, are considered equal to Mrs. Sigourney's.
Amelia B. Welby's poems are distinguished for sentiment and melody. The "Passion Flowers" and other poems of Julia Ward Howe are full of ardor and earnestness. Mrs. Sigourney's metrical writings are cherished by a large class of readers. Hannah F. Gould has written many pretty and fanciful poems, and Grace Greenwood's "Ariadne" is a fine burst of womanly pride and indignation.
R. W. Griswold. Bryant's Complete Poetical Works, With Life by Griswold, and Preface by F.W.N. Bayley, Esq. Royal 24mo., cloth extra, gilt edges, 2s. Sigourney's Poetical Works, With introductory Preface by F. W. N. Bayley, Esq. Royal 24mo., cloth extra, gilt edges, 2s.
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