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       I  have   followed    the  usual   practice  in  omitting    the  last  and  less 

beautiful stanza。 

       FOLLOW 

       Campion's ;airs�察─�for which he wrote his words�察�laid rules too urgent 

upon what would have been a delicate genius in poetry。 The airs demanded 

so many stanzas�察�but they gave his imagination leave to be away�察�and they 

depressed and even confused his metrical play�察�hurting thus the two vital 

spots of poetry。 Many of the stanzas for music make an unlucky repeating 

pattern with the poor variety that a repeating wall´paper does not attempt。 

And   yet   Campion   began   again   and   again   with   the   onset   of   a   true   poet。 

Take�察   �for  example�察   �the  poem   beginning     with   the  vitality  of  this  line�察�

;touching in its majesty;´ 

     ;Awake�察�thou spring of speaking grace�察�mute rest becomes not thee� ─�

    Who   would   have   guessed   that   the   piece   was   to   close   in   a   jogging 

stanza containing a reflection on the fact that brutes are speechless�察�with 



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these two final lines ´ 

     ;If speech be then the best of graces�察�Doe it not in slumber smother� ─�

     Campion yields a curious collection of beautiful first lines。 

     ;Sleep�察�angry beauty�察�sleep and fear not me; 

     is far finer than anything that follows。 So is there a single gloom in this 

´ 

     ;Follow thy fair sun�察�unhappy shadow� ─�

     And a single joy in this ´ 

     ;Oh�察�what unhoped´for sweet supply� ─�

     Another solitary line is one that by its splendour proves Campion the 

author of Cherry Ripe ´ 

     ;A thousand cherubim fly in her looks。; 

     And yet ;a thousand cherubim; is a line of a poem full of the dullest 

kind of reasoningcurious matter for musicand of the intricate knotting 

of what is a very simple thread of thought。 It was therefore no easy matter 

to choose something of Campion's for a collection of the finest work。 For 

an   historical   book   of   representative   poetry   the   question   would   be   easy 

enough�察  �for   there   Campion   should   appear   by   his   glorious   lyric�察  �Cherry 

Ripe�察    �by   one    or   two   poems      of   profounder     imagination      ��however 

imperfect���察�and by a madrigal written for the music ��however the stanzas 

may flag in their quibbling��。 But the work of choosing among his lyrics for 

the   sake   of   beauty   shows   too   clearly   the   inequality�察  �the   brevity   of   the 

inspiration�察  �and   the poet's   absolute   disregard of the   moment   of its   flight 

and departure。 A few splendid lines may be reason enough for extracting a 

short poem�察�but must not be made to bear too great a burden。 

       WHEN THOU MUST HOME 

       Of   the   quality  of   this   imaginative   lyric   there   is   no   doubt。   It   is   fine 

throughout�察�as we confess even after the greatness of the opening�此� 

     ;When thou must home to shades of underground�察�And there arrived�察�a 

new admired guest; 

     It is as solemn and fantastic at the close as at this dark and splendid 

opening�察�and throughout�察�past description�察�Elizabethan。 This single poem 

must bind Campion to that period without question�察�and as he lived thirty´ 

six years in the actual reign of Elizabeth�察�and printed his Book of Airs with 



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Rosseter two years before her death�察�it is by no violence that we give him 

the name that covers our earlier poets of the great age。 When thou must 

Home is of the day of Marlowe。 It has the qualities of great poetry�察�and 

especially the quality of keeping its simplicity�察�and it has a quality of great 

simplicity   not   at   all   child´like�察  �but   adult�察  �large�察  �gay�察  �credulous�察  �tragic�察�

sombre�察�and amorous。 

       THE FUNERAL 

       Donne�察�too�察�is a poet of fine onsets。 It was with some hesitation that I 

admitted a poem having the middle stanza of this Funeral�察�but the earlier 

lines of the last are fine。 

       CHARIS' TRIUMPH 

       The freshest of Ben Jonson's lyrics have been chosen。 Obviously it is 

freshness that he generally lacks�察�for all his vigour�察�his emphatic initiative�察�

and his overbearing and impulsive voice in verse。 There is a stale breath in 

that hearty shout。 Doubtless it is to the credit of his honesty that he did not 

adopt the country´ phrases in vogue�察�but when he takes landscape as a task 

the effect is ill enough。 I have already had the temerity to find fault for a 

blunder of meaning�察�with the passage of a most famous lyric�察�where it says 

the contrary of what it would say ´ 

     ;But might I of Jove's nectar sup I would not change for thine�察─�

     and for doing so have encountered the anger rather than the argument 

of those who cannot admire a pretty lyric but they must hold reason itself 

to be in error rather than allow that a line of it has chanced to get turned in 

the rhyming。 

       IN EARTH 

       ;I   ever   saw   anything�察─  �says   Charles   Lamb�察   �like   this   funeral   dirge�察�

except   the   ditty   which   reminds   Ferdinand   of   his   drowned   father   in   the 

Tempest。 As   that   is   of   the   water�察  �watery�察  �so   this   is   of   the   earth�察  �earthy。 

Both have that intentness of feeling which seems to resolve itself into the 

element which it contemplates。; 

       SONG ��Phoebus�察�arise�。� 

       All Drummond's poems seem to be minor poems�察�even at their finest�察�

except only this。 He must have known�察�for the creation of that poem�察�some 

more impassioned and less restless hour。 It is�察�from the outset to the close�察�



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the   sigh   of   a   profound   expectation。   There   is   no   division   into   stanzas�察�

because its metre is the breath of life。 One might wish that the English ode 

��roughly called ;Pindaric;�� had never been written but with passion�察�for so 

written it is the most immediate of all metres�察�the shock of the heart and 

the breath of elation or grief are the law of the lines。 It has passed out of 

the   gates   of   the   garden   of   stanzas�察  �and   walks   ��not   astray��   in   the   further 

freedom   where   all   is   interior   law。   Cowley�察  �long   afterwards�察  �wrote   this 

Pindaric ode�察�and wrote it coldly。 But Drummond's ��he calls it a song�� can 

never   again   be   forgotten。   With   admirable   judgment   it   was   set   up   at   the 

very   gate   of   that   Golden   Treasury   we   all   know   so   well�察  �and�察  �therefore�察�

generation       after   generation      of   readers�察    �who     have    never     opened 

Drummond's poems�察�know this fine ode as well as they know any single 

poem in the whole of English literature。 There was a generation that had 

not been taught by the Golden Treasury�察�and Cardinal Newman was of it。 

Writing to Coventry  Patmore of   his great odes�察�he   called them  beautiful 

but fragmentary�察�was inclined to wish that they might some day be made 

complete。 There is nothing in all poetry more complete。 Seldom is a poem 

in   stanzas   so   complete   but   that   another   stanza   might   have   made   a   final 

close�察�but a master's ode has the unity of life�察�and when it ends it ends for 

ever。 

     A poem of Drummond's has this auroral image of a blush�此�Anthea has 

blushed to hear her eyes likened to stars ��habit might have caused her�察�one 

would think�察�to bear the flattery with a front as cool as the very daybreak���察�

and the lover tells her that the sudden increase of her beauty is futile�察�for 

he cannot admire more�此 �For naught thy cheeks that morn do raise。; What 

sweet�察�nay�察�what solemn roses� �

     Again�此�

     ;Me   here   she   first   perceived�察  �and   here   a   morn   Of   bright   carnations 

overspread her face。; 

     The   seventeenth   century   has   possession   of   that   ;morn;   caught   once 

upon its uplands�察�nor   can any  custom of   aftertime touch   its freshness   to 

wither it。 

       TO MY INCONSTANT MISTRESS 

       The solemn vengeance of this poem has a strange tonenot unique�察�



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for   it  had   sounded    somewhere       in  mediaeval     poetry   in  Italybut    in  a 

dreadful      sense    divine。   At    the   first  reading�察   �this   sentence     against 

inconstancy�察�spoken by one more than inconstant�察�moves something  like 

indignation�察  �nevertheless�察  �it   is   menacingly   and   obscurely   justified�察  �on   a 

ground as it were beyond the common region of tolerance and pardon。 

       THE PULLEY 

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