"This is the golden chain of love whereby the whole
creation
is bound
to the throne of the Creator.
to the throne of the Creator.
Tennyson
:
"Then Sir Bedivere cried: 'Ah, my Lord Arthur, what shall become of me
now ye go from me and leave me here alone among mine enemies? '
'Comfort thyself,' said the king, 'and do as well as thou mayest, for
in me is no trust to trust in. For I will unto the vale of Avilion to
heal me of my grievous wound. And if thou never hear more of me, pray
for my soul. '"]
[Footnote 14: With this 'cf>/i>. Greene, 'James IV'. , v. , 4:--
"Should all things still remain in one estate
Should not in greatest arts some scars be found
Were all upright nor chang'd what world were this?
A chaos made of quiet, yet no world. "
And 'cf'. Shakespeare, 'Coriolanus', ii. , iii. :--
What custom wills in all things should we do it,
The dust on antique Time would be unswept,
And mountainous error too highly heaped
For Truth to overpeer. ]
[Footnote 15: 'Cf. ' Archdeacon Hare's "Sermon on the Law of
Self-Sacrifice".
"This is the golden chain of love whereby the whole creation is bound
to the throne of the Creator. "
For further illustrations see 'Illust. of Tennyson', p. 158. ]
[Footnote 16: Paraphrased from 'Odyssey', vi. , 42-5, or 'Lucretius',
iii. , 18-22. ]
[Footnote 17: The expression "'crowned' with summer 'sea'" from
'Odyssey', x. , 195: [Greek: naeson taen peri pontos apeiritos
estaphan_otai. ]]
THE GARDENER'S DAUGHTER; OR, THE PICTURES
First published in 1842.
In the 'Gardener's Daughter' we have the first of that delightful series
of poems dealing with scenes and characters from ordinary English life,
and named appropriately 'English Idylls'. The originator of this species
of poetry in England was Southey, in his 'English Eclogues', written
before 1799. In the preface to these eclogues, which are in blank verse,
Southey says: "The following eclogues, I believe, bear no resemblance to
any poems in our language. This species of composition has become
popular in Germany, and I was induced to attempt it by an account of the
German idylls given me in conversation. " Southey's eclogues are eight in
number: 'The Old Mansion House', 'The Grandmother's Tale', 'Hannah',
'The Sailor's Mother', 'The Witch', 'The Ruined Cottage', 'The Last of
the Family' and 'The Alderman's Funeral'. Southey was followed by
Wordsworth in 'The Brothers' and 'Michael'.
"Then Sir Bedivere cried: 'Ah, my Lord Arthur, what shall become of me
now ye go from me and leave me here alone among mine enemies? '
'Comfort thyself,' said the king, 'and do as well as thou mayest, for
in me is no trust to trust in. For I will unto the vale of Avilion to
heal me of my grievous wound. And if thou never hear more of me, pray
for my soul. '"]
[Footnote 14: With this 'cf>/i>. Greene, 'James IV'. , v. , 4:--
"Should all things still remain in one estate
Should not in greatest arts some scars be found
Were all upright nor chang'd what world were this?
A chaos made of quiet, yet no world. "
And 'cf'. Shakespeare, 'Coriolanus', ii. , iii. :--
What custom wills in all things should we do it,
The dust on antique Time would be unswept,
And mountainous error too highly heaped
For Truth to overpeer. ]
[Footnote 15: 'Cf. ' Archdeacon Hare's "Sermon on the Law of
Self-Sacrifice".
"This is the golden chain of love whereby the whole creation is bound
to the throne of the Creator. "
For further illustrations see 'Illust. of Tennyson', p. 158. ]
[Footnote 16: Paraphrased from 'Odyssey', vi. , 42-5, or 'Lucretius',
iii. , 18-22. ]
[Footnote 17: The expression "'crowned' with summer 'sea'" from
'Odyssey', x. , 195: [Greek: naeson taen peri pontos apeiritos
estaphan_otai. ]]
THE GARDENER'S DAUGHTER; OR, THE PICTURES
First published in 1842.
In the 'Gardener's Daughter' we have the first of that delightful series
of poems dealing with scenes and characters from ordinary English life,
and named appropriately 'English Idylls'. The originator of this species
of poetry in England was Southey, in his 'English Eclogues', written
before 1799. In the preface to these eclogues, which are in blank verse,
Southey says: "The following eclogues, I believe, bear no resemblance to
any poems in our language. This species of composition has become
popular in Germany, and I was induced to attempt it by an account of the
German idylls given me in conversation. " Southey's eclogues are eight in
number: 'The Old Mansion House', 'The Grandmother's Tale', 'Hannah',
'The Sailor's Mother', 'The Witch', 'The Ruined Cottage', 'The Last of
the Family' and 'The Alderman's Funeral'. Southey was followed by
Wordsworth in 'The Brothers' and 'Michael'.
