...' first kindled the dead coals of war,' many a poet has been inspired to prove, if it may be, that The song that nerves a nation's heart Is in itself a deed ; but in this volume will be found little that has not stood the test of time or criticism, and to...

...greatly hastened on by the personal efforts and soul-stirring poetry of our own Byron and Shelley ? And here the singer for his Art Not all in vain may...that nerves a nation's heart Is in itself a deed. Our own island-kingdom is fortunate in its records of native-born national poets. Taking " Piers Plowman...

...law courts." In the Nineteenth Century Mr. Tennyson inscribes " To Virgil," a poem of ten stanzas, written at the request of the Mantuans for the nineteenth centenary of Virgil's death. The last stanza in— " I salute thee, Mantovano, I that loved thee since my day began, Wielder of...

...Nineteenth Century, November 1881. In the same periodical (September 1882) he published an apostrophe "To Virgil," written at the request of the Mantuans for the nineteenth centenary of Virgil's death. In the poetic invitation to the Rev. FD Maurice, " Come to the Isle of Wight," etc., Tennyson has made...

...a verse from me, I, wearing but the garland of a day, Cast at thy feet one flower that fades away. TO VIRGIL. WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF THE MANTUANS FOR THE NINETEENTH CENTENARY OF VIRGIL'S DEATH. ROMAN VIRGIL, thou that singest Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire, llion falling, Rome arising, wars,...

...reached. WAI/ГЖЕК GERHARDI (in " Neue Jahrb. f. Phil. u. Paed."). TO VIRGIL. [Alfred Tennyson.] [Written at the request of the Mantuans for the nineteenth centenary of Virgil's death. From " The Nineteenth Century."] L Roman Virgil, thou that singest Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire,...

...lean age forlorn, Too many a voice may cry That man can have no after-morn, Not yet of these am I. The man remains, and whatsoe'er He wrought of good...heart, Is in itself a deed." TO VIRGIL. WRITTEN AT THE KEQÜEST OF THE MANTUANS FOR THE NINETEENTH CENTENARY OF VIRGIL'S DEATH. I. ROMAN VIRGIL, thou that...

...in the predecessor of this volume. The most charming of the later poems is the one written to Virgil at the request of the Mantuans for the nineteenth centenary of Virgil's death, to which may perhaps be added the last sonnet on the last page in the book, especially the first half....

...this lean age forlorn, Too many a voice may cry That man can have no after-mom, Not yet of these am I. The man remains, and whatsoe'er He wrought of good...MANTUANS FOR THE NINETEENTH CENTENARY OF VIRGIL'S DEATH. ROMAN VIRGIL, thou that singest Dion's lofty temples robed in fire. Ilion falling, Rome arising, wars,...

...contributes to the happiness of life, it will do so even more effectively in the future. CHAPTER VI POETRY " And here the singer for his Art Not all in vain may...that nerves a nation's heart Is in itself a deed." TENNYSON. CHAPTEK VI POETRY AFTER the disastrous defeat of the Athenians before Syracuse, Plutarch...