The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 87, Issue 9Herrick & Noyes, 1922 |
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Page 314 - To get at the eternal strength of things, And fearlessly to make strong songs of it, Is, to my mind, the mission of that man The world would call a poet. He may sing But roughly, and withal ungraciously; But if he touch to life the one right chord Wherein God's music slumbers, and awake To truth one drowsed ambition, he sings well.
Page 310 - ... That green one mostly wrops around the bread; "Tennessee Lace" I take to ride behind. Hither and yon right smart of them have fled. Inside the chest I keep my choicest kind — "Pine-Bloom" and "St. Ann's Robe" (of hickory brown), "Star of the East" (that yaller's fading down!). The Rose? I wove hit courting, long ago— Not Simon, though he's proper kind of heart — His name was Hugh — the fever laid him low— I allus keep that kiver set apart. "Rose of the Valley," he would laugh and say,...
Page 313 - What are the peculiarities of this residue? What special sense does Wordsworth exercise, and what instincts does he satisfy? What are the subjects and the motives which in him excite the imaginative faculty?