Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848Various
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Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848
Various
Literature -- Periodicals; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals
LOVE.
BY R. H. STODDARD.
Oh Love! thou art a fallen child of light,
A ruined seraph in a world of care--
Tortured and wrung by sorrow and despair,
And longings for the beautiful and bright:
Thy brow is deeply scarred, and bleeds beneath
A spiked coronet, a thorny wreath;
Thy rainbow wings are rent and torn with chains,
Sullied and drooping in extremest wo;
Thy dower, to those who love thee best below,
Is tears and torture, agony and pains,
Coldness and scorn and doubt which often parts;--
"The course of true love never does run smooth,"
Old histories show it, and a thousand hearts,
Breaking from day to day, attest the solemn truth.
[Illustration: Beauty's Bath
Painted by E. Landseer Engraved by J. Sartain
Engraved Expressly for Graham's Magazine]
BEAUTY'S BATH.
[ILLUSTRATING AN ENGRAVING.]
The fair one stands beside the plashing brim,
Her pet, her Beauty, gathered to her breast;
A doubt hath crossed her: "can he surely swim?"
And in her sweet face is that fear exprest.
Alas! how often, for thyself, in years
Fast coming, wilt thou pause and doubt and shrink
O'er some fair project! Then, be all thy fears
False as this first one by the water's brink!
REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.
_Poems of Early and After Years. By N. P. Willis. Illustrated by E.
Leutze. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart. 1 vol. 8vo._
This is a complete edition of one of America's most popular poets,
with the old poems carefully revised, and many new pieces added. It is
got up in a similar style with the editions of Longfellow and Bryant,
by the same publishers, and is one of the most splendid volumes of the
season. The portrait of the author, engraved by Cheney, is the most
accurate we have seen. The illustrations, from designs by Leutze, and
engraved by Humphrys, Tucker, and Pease, are sixteen in number, and in
their character and execution are honorable to American art. They are
truly embellishments. Fertile as has been the house of Carey & Hart in
beautiful books, they have published nothing more elegant and tasteful
than the present edition of Willis.
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