289 CCCLXIV The singular beauty of the view from the ancient Taurominium near Etna, often noticed, called forth from the writer (Ap. 26, 1833), during his journey in Sicily, this deeply-felt expression of one among the divers morals that Nature can teach. The Messina Ideals with an analogous moral, as the motto given in the author's Verses (1868) shows: Homo sum: humani nihil à me alienum puto. 290 CCCLXVI The text prefixed is From His mouth came out a sharp two-edged sword. 293 CCCLXXII Originally prefaced by the words of Sophocles, Antigone, 332: πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ, κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει Many are the wondrous things of Nature, and none is more wondrous than Man. 294 CCCLXXIV Written after the death of Miss Mary Newman. Dr. Pusey (Jan. 1828) says of the author that he had 'lost,.. after only 24 hours' cessation of apparently strong health, his youngest sister. Every consolation, which a brother can have, he has most richly-her whole life having been a preparation for that hour.' It is dated Oxford, April, 1828:-CCCLXXV, Horsepath, September 29, 1829. 296 CCCLXXVI Dated, The Oratory, 1856. 300 CCCLXXXI This and the next following are 'from S. Gregory Nazianzen,' CCCLXXXIII Written At Sea, in the Straits of Bonifazio, between 303 CCCLXXXVII St. vi Whither we rush: Refers to the real motion of the Sun and his planets through celestial space. The distance thus annually traversed has been calcu lated at 154 millions of miles: (Struve). 304 CCCLXXXVIII From Poems and Hymns (1880) by John Sharp, now for more than fifty years the much-respected Vicar of Horbury, near Wakefield. 309 CCCXCV Arthur Penrhyn Stanley: son to Edward, Bishop of Norwich at Rugby under Dr. Arnold: Scholar of Balliol, Fellow of University, Oxford: Canon of Canterbury, Dean of Westminster, 1863. Best known by his Life of Dr. Arnold and works on the history of the Jewish and the Eastern Church. 311 CCCXCVIII Christopher Wordsworth: nephew to the Poet: educated at Winchester; Fellow of Trinity, Cam bridge. Master of Harrow: Bishop of Lincoln, 1869. Eminent for scholarship and integrity of life. Frederick William Faber: of Harrow School and 318 ccccvii The poetry of Mr. Richard Wilton, (of S. Catherine's, Cambridge Rector of Londesborough), Woodnotes, 1873, and Lyrics, 1878, deserves wider acceptance than it has hitherto received. 319 CCCCX CCCCXI 'The East window of Kirkby Wharfe or Grimston Church is filled with stained glass, . . . the subject being the Crucifixion,' From Days and Hours by Frederick Tennyson, 1854:-another noteworthy and too-neglected book. 320 CCCCXII Charles Tennyson, born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, next brother to Frederick and senior to Alfred, was educated at Louth and Trinity, Cambridge: ordained 1835; married a sister of Emily, Lady Tennyson, and spent most of his life as Vicar of Grasby in the Wolds,-taking the surname of Turner under the will of a relation. His, as his nephew Hallam Tennyson truly writes, was an alma beata e bella:—a man of noble simplicity, tenderness, purity of heart,' at once childlike and heroic.' The devoted love of his brother Alfred is expressed in the beautiful stanzas dated Midnight, June 30, 1879. These This poet was master of what may be termed the Idyllic sonnet; under which form he gave many pictures of his country and its indwellers, with his thoughts upon this and the other life. Sonnets, (published collectively in 1880), have the charm of a singular humanity; of an originality which sometimes touches upon quaintness. No verse more sincere, more tender, more worthy of study, is contained in our Anthology. 321 CCCCXIV scroll of prayer: The extract from the Book of the Dead, which was put into the hands of the deceased.' 322 CCCCXVI Thou shalt not lose so Petrarch, in one of those passages whose ethereal beauty reminds us of the Paradise scenes by Fra Angelico, speaking of the Tanti volti che 'l Tempo e Morte han guasti 325 ccccxx11 L. 10 oorali: a drug extracted from Strychnos toxifera; It acts by paralysing the nerves of motion, whilst those of sensation are left unimpaired. Readers should remember that this poem forms in truth a little drama, wherein it is not the Poet, but the Hospital Nurse, who speaks throughout. The two little girls, whose story was published in a magazine, are the only characters here drawn from actual life. INDEX OF WRITERS WITH DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH ADDISON, Joseph (1672-1719) CLXXIV-CLXXVI ALEXANDER, Cecil Frances (- ALEXANDER, William: Bishop (- ALFORD, Henry (1810-1871) CCXCIX -) cccxcvii -) CCCXCVI AUSTIN, John (1613—1669) CLXII-CLXVI BARBAULD, Anna Laetitia (1743—1825) CCXLIV, CCXLV BARNES, William (1801-1886) cccxxxi-ccCXXXVI BAXTER, Richard (1615-1691) CLIX BEAUMONT, Joseph (1615-1699) CXLII-CXLVI -) cccxci, cсCXCIV BROWNE, Thomas (1605-1682) LXXXVII BURNS, Robert (1759—1796) ccxxxiv BYROM, John (1691-1763) CCII CAMPION, Thomas (c. 1567—1620) XXI—XXV COWLEY, Abraham (1618-1667) CLXXII COWPER, William (1731-1800) CCXXVIII-CCXXXIII CRASHAW, Richard (1612-3-1649) cxxxix-CXLI CROSSMAN, Samuel (1624 ?-1684) CLX, CLXI DAVENANT, William (1605-1668) LXXXVI DODDRIDGE, Philip (1702-1751) CXCVIII-CCI DONNE, John (1573-1631) XVII-XX DRUMMOND, William (1585-1649) xxx-xxxv DRYDEN, John (1631—1700) CLXXIII DUNBAR, William (c. 1460-d. bef. 1530) 1 FABER, Frederick William (1814-1863) cccci-ccccvii CCCLXXXIV-CCCLXXXVII FROUDE, Richard Hurrell (1803-1836) CCCLI GIFFORD, Humfrey (16th Century) vii GRANT, Robert (1785-1838) CCXLII, CCXLIII HABINGTON, William (1605-1654) LXXII-LXXVI HARVEY, Christopher (c. 1597-1663) LXXI HEBER, Reginald: Bishop (1783–1826) CCXLVI—CCLV HERRICK, Robert (1591—1674) xc—xcv JONSON, Ben (1574—1637) xxviii, xxix KEBLE, John (1792-1866) CCLXVII-CCLXXXIX: CCCXII-cccxxx LYTE, Henry Francis (1793-1847) Ccciv-cccx1 MARVELL, Andrew (1621-1678) xcix, c MASON, John (— 1694) CLXVII-CLXIX MILMAN, Henry Hart (1791-1868) CCLVI-CCLVII MILTON, John (1608—1674) LXXXI-LXXXV MONTGOMERY, James (1771-1854) ccxxxix-ccXLI NAIRN, Carolina: Baroness (1766—1845) ccc -) CCCLII-CCCLXXXIII NEWTON, John (1725-1807) CCXXIV-CCXXVII OLIVERS, Thomas (1725-1799) ccvii PATMORE, Coventry -) CCCXLV PESTEL, Thomas (17th Century) LXXXVIII, LXXXIX PROCTER, Adelaide Anne (1835-1864) cccxxxviI QUARLES, Francis (1592—1644) CLI-CLIV ROSSETTI, Christina G. (- CCCXXXVIII-CCCXLI SHAIRP, John Campbell (1819-1885) CCCXLVII-CCCL |