...the golden isles.' Perhaps the best passage of the same extent in this poem, ia the following, — ' The lark is singing in the blinding sky, (Hedges are...joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retires a space, to see how fair she looks, Then, proud, runs up to kiss her. All is fair ! All glad from grass...

...picture — quite Turner-like in vivid coloring : The lark is singing in the blinding sky, Hedges arc white with May. The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And, in the fullness^of his marriugc joy, He decorates her tawnv brow with shells, Retires a space, to see how...

...asleep in unknown sens. The next extract is exquisite in its word painting and beauty of thought: — The lark is singing in the blinding sky, Hedges are...Joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells. Retires a space to see how fair she looks, Then proud, runs up to kiss her. All is fair — All glad, from...

...— you shall be wearier yet. SCENE VII. A Balcony overlooking the Sea — EDWARD and WALTER seated. THE lark is singing in the blinding sky, Hedges are...joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retires a space, to see how fair she looks, Then proud runs up to kiss her. All is fair — All glad, from...

...pen of one who could write a passage like the following, which can never be too often quoted :— " The lark is singing in the blinding sky, Hedges are...marriage joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Ketires a space, to see how fair she looks, Then, proud, runs up to kiss her. All is fair— All glad,...

...is contained in the following passage, which introduces scene VII. [A balcony overlooking the sea.'] The lark is singing in the blinding sky, — Hedges...fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny front with shells — Retires a space to see how fair she looks, Then proud, runs up to kiss her. All...

...hurrying up the world's great side with light" Here is a shell for the next edition of •"Thalatta." " The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded...He decorates her tawny brow with shells, •Retires a space, to see now fair she looks, Then proud, runs up to kl«s her." A convent-portrait : " No thin-smiled...

...laughter, and his pride Ever seem'd well placed, like a castle set Upon a mountain. BEDDOES. A SEA BEACH. The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded...joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retires a space, to see how fair she looks, Then, proud, runs up to kiss her. THE MORNING MOON. You've sat...

...move, As in a little wind, thou'lt know 'tis I." The following simile is exquisitely beautiful : — " The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded...joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retires n space, to see how fair she looks, Then proud, runs up to kiss her." As an instance of the bad taste...

...Or, again, in a passage which has been already often quoted as exquisite, and in its way is so :— The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded...marriage joy He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retiree a pace, to see how fair she looks, Then proud, runs up to kiss her. Exquisite ? Yes ; but only...