Birket Foster's pictures of English landscape . 29 XXX. AT SEA AND ON SHORE. Now a blessing on the moonlight, Prayed one who lone and longBy a watchful lamp at midnight Had crooned a cradle the cliff-perched cottage The surf-beat rose and fell,As babys breath and mothers song, AYent with its sink and swell. For in yon silvery shimmer That falls across the sea,I see his boat-sails glimmer, And I know he thinks of me. Now a blessing on the lamplight, Prayed one who watched the lineOf float on float, from a sailing boat That tracked the mackerels the yawls black quarter T
Birket Foster's pictures of English landscape . 29 XXX. AT SEA AND ON SHORE. Now a blessing on the moonlight, Prayed one who lone and longBy a watchful lamp at midnight Had crooned a cradle the cliff-perched cottage The surf-beat rose and fell,As babys breath and mothers song, AYent with its sink and swell. For in yon silvery shimmer That falls across the sea,I see his boat-sails glimmer, And I know he thinks of me. Now a blessing on the lamplight, Prayed one who watched the lineOf float on float, from a sailing boat That tracked the mackerels the yawls black quarter The sea-thud went and came,And ebon fell her shadow On the moons white wake of flame.£ For in yon lamplight, fleeting And faint although it be,A wifes and babys greeting Eeach to me oer the NEW EDITION. PRICE HALE A GUINEA, IN HANDSOME CLOTH BINDING, ODES AND SONNETS, SELECT RT) EH OAT OUR BEST AUTHORS, ILLUSTRATED WITH TINTED PICTURES BY BIRKET FOSTER, AND ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS BY J. SLIEGH. ENGRAVED AND PRINTED BY THE BROTHERS DALZIEL. TIMES. The Book is a remarkable specimen, not only of the Engraving-, but of the Printingof the Brothers Dalziel. EXAMINER. There are initital letters and tail-pieces printed in colours, and there are large tintedwood-cuts from delightful rustic sketches by Birket Poster. The text of the Volume isa collection of some of the best Odes and Sonnets of our literature, of those little workswhich yield, in fact, ;the most refined expression of the character of English poetry. ABT JOURNAL. The illustrations are, of course, all landscapes, being from the pencil of BirketPoster. The name of the artist would, in ordinary cases, be sufficient testimony to theirbeauty and truthfulness; but he appears to have taxed his imaginative and executivepowers to
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