Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . Cut him a better man was foundBy the crier on his round Through the town. 512 HOLMES. 3. But now he walks the streets,And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan; 15 And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, They are gone. 4. The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed 20 In their bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for man
Studies in English literatureBeing typical selections of British and American authorship, from Shakespeare to the present time ..with definitions, notes, analyses, and glossary as an aid to systematic literary study .. . Cut him a better man was foundBy the crier on his round Through the town. 512 HOLMES. 3. But now he walks the streets,And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan; 15 And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, They are gone. 4. The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed 20 In their bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb. / 5- My grandmamma has said—Poor old lady she is dead 25 Long ago— That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. 30 6, But now his riose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff; V And a crook is in his back. And a melancholy crack 35 In his laugh. 7. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, 40 And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer! 8, And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring. 45 Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. XXXV. ALFRED TENNYSON. y>A^4/>K^ CHARACTERIZATION BY BAYARD TAYLOR. I. No English poet, with the possible exception of Byron, hasso ministered to the natural appetite for poetry in the people asTennyson. Byron did this—unintentionally, as all genius does—by warming and arousing their dormant sentiment: Tennyson 23 ci^ TENNYSON. by surprising them into the recognition of a new luxury in theharmony and movement of poetic speech. I use the word lux-ury purposely ; for no other word will express the glow andrichness and fulness of his technical qualities. It was scarcelya wonder that a generation accustomed to look for compact andpalpable intellectual forms in poetry—a generation which wasstill hostile to Keats and Shelley, and had not yet caught upwith Wordsworth—should at first r
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