Ye Nymphs of the woodlands! I come to your bowers, Where the wild roses grow And the eglantine flowers: Where the trees and wild vines In their spring-dress arrayed, Entwine their green foliage And weave the cool shade. Oh! I come o'er the hills By the moon's dewy light-- I come where the waters Gush sparkling and bright-- Where the green woods are fresh, And the cool valleys cheered With the sweet mellow strains Of the wild forest bird. {112} I come where the fountains Their freshness diffuse, And the flowers smile the sweetest, Impearled with the dews. In thy wild forest home, Oh! I come to inhale The pure balmy air And the health-breathing gale. Ye Nymphs of the woodlands! Then dress your green bowers: Bid vines spread their foliage, And Spring wake her flowers. Oh! bid your bright waters Gush sparkling along, And the wild forest bird Charm the valleys with song; For I come o'er the hills To thy cool shady courts, To quaff at thy fountains And join in thy sports. CRITICAL NOTICES. MRS. SIGOURNEY--MISS GOULD--MRS. ELLET. _Zinzendorff, and other Poems. By Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, New York: Published by Leavitt, Lord & Co._ 1836. _Poems--By Miss H. F. Gould, Third Edition. Boston: Hilliard, Gray & Co._ 1835. _Poems; Translated and Original. By Mrs. E. F. Ellet. Philadelphia: Key and Biddle._ 1835. Mrs. Sigourney has been long known as an author. Her earliest publication was reviewed about twenty years ago, in the North American. She was then Miss Huntley. The fame which she has since acquired is extensive; and we, who so much admire her virtues and her talents, and who have so frequently expressed our admiration of both in this Journal--we, of all persons--are the least inclined to call in question the justice or the accuracy of the public opinion, by which has been adjudged to her so high a station among the _literati_ of our land. Some things, however, we cannot pass over in silence. There are two kinds of popular reputation,--or rather there are two roads by which such reputation may be attained: and it appears to us an idiosyncrasy which distinguishes mere fame from most, or perhaps from _all_ other human ends, that, in regarding the intrinsic value of the object, we must not fail to introduce, as a portion of our estimate, the means by which the object is acquired. To speak less abstractedly. Let us suppose two writers having a reputation apparently equal--that is to say, their names _being equally in the mouths of the people_--for we take this to be the most practicable test of what we choose to term _apparent popular reputation_. Their names then are equally in the mouths of the people. The one has written a great work--let it be either an Epic of high rank, or something which, although of seeming littleness in itself, is yet, like the