Poet Lore/Volume 4/Number 8-9

Poet-lore

Vol. IV.

Nos.
8 and 9.

⁠——wilt thou not haply saie
⁠Truth needs no collour with his collour fixt,
⁠Beautie no pensell, beauties truth to lay:
⁠But best is best, if neuer intermixt
Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
Excuse not silence so, for’t lies in thee,
To make him much out-liue a gilded tombe:
⁠And to be praised of ages yet to be.
⁠Then do thy office ——

 

 

Contents of numbers 8–9 (not included in the original text)

• Karen by Alexander Kielland, translated by Thyge Sógård
• A Boston Criticism of Whitman by John Burroughs
• Discouragement by Nathan Haskell Dole
• Shelley's Faith: its Development and Relativity by Kineton Parkes
• The Celtic Element in Tenyson's 'Lady of Shalott' by Anna Robertson Brown
• The Religious Teachings of Aeschylus by Mary Taylor Blauvelt
• Browning's 'Childe Roland' and its Danish Source by M. Sears Brooks
• Newton's Brain by Jakub Arbes, translated by Josef Jiří Král
• Shakespeare's Compliment to Brantôme by Charles Hugh Hunton
• The Tailed Sonnet by E. B. Brownlow
• Notes and News
• Societies