< Poet Lore < Volume 4
Poet-lore
Nos.
8 and 9.
wilt thou not haply saie
Truth needs no collour with his collour fixt,
Beautie no pensell, beauties truth to lay:
But best is best, if neuer intermixt
Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
Excuse not silence so, for’t lies in thee,
To make him much out-liue a gilded tombe:
And to be praised of ages yet to be.
Then do thy office
Contents of numbers 8–9 (not included in the original text)
- Karen by Alexander Kielland, translated by Thyge Sógård
- A Boston Criticism of Whitman by John Burroughs
- Discouragement by Nathan Haskell Dole
- Shelley's Faith: its Development and Relativity by Kineton Parkes
- The Celtic Element in Tenyson's 'Lady of Shalott' by Anna Robertson Brown
- The Religious Teachings of Aeschylus by Mary Taylor Blauvelt
- Browning's 'Childe Roland' and its Danish Source by M. Sears Brooks
- Newton's Brain by Jakub Arbes, translated by Josef Jiří Král
- Shakespeare's Compliment to Brantôme by Charles Hugh Hunton
- The Tailed Sonnet by E. B. Brownlow
- Notes and News
- Societies
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