...the head of this article. Mr. Robert Bridges may not be a poet of great force or originality, but be possesses a delicate taste and a devotion to artistic...the pool Eddies away, are tangled mass on mass The water- weeds, that net the fishes cool, And scarce allow a narrow stream to pass ; Where spreading...

...take a few verses from a piece in quite a different style, a style nearer Keats than Wordsworth : — There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with...branches trail their foliage fine Upon his watery face. Swift from the sweltering pasturage he flows. His stream alert to seek the pleasant shade, Pictures...

...I faw her ftart And^turn afide and tremble ;— ['7] *~pHERE is a hill befide the filver Thames, A Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine : And brilliant underfoot with thoufand gems Steeply the thickets to his floods decline. Straight trees in every place Their thick...

...Stream,' and all the other verses in which, like a true Etonian, he celebrates the beautiful Thames : • There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine And brilliant under foot with thousand gems Steeply the thickets to his floods decline. I 26 LETTERS ON LITERATURE...

...more in the melody of the River, than Mr. Bridges does here ; we only give a fragment of the piece : There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with...thickets to his floods decline. Straight trees in eveiy place Their thick tops interlace, And pendant branches trail their foliage fine Upon his watery...

...parks, the silent woods, the luxuriant hop-gardens, and the sweetsmelling country lanes, where — " Straight trees in every place Their thick tops interlace, And pendant branches trail their foliage fine." Much of the contemplated work was written ; nevertheless more pressing avocations interfered with its...

...hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine, And brilliant under foot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods...trees in every place Their thick tops interlace And penJent branches hail their foliage fine Upon his watery face.' The third characteristic of the poetry...

...Along thy wild and willow'd shore. m. Scorr — Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto IV. St. 1. Thames. us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,...Sc. 1. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself n. ROB'T BRIDGES — There is a Hill beside the Silver Thames. Slow let us trace the matchless vale...

...saw her start And turn aside and tremble ; — Ah ! she was true, her heart I knew did not dissemble. THERE is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with...branches trail their foliage fine Upon his watery face. Swift from the sweltering pasturage he flows : His stream, alert to seek the pleasant shade, Pictures...

...indeed, have dealt more lovingly with the Thames than Mr. Bridges. One of the happiest of his poems — There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine, with its many beautiful descriptive touches, carries but one disappointment for the reader • —...