EARTH’S MARTYRS.         Many have hymned Thy Martyrs, Earth, of old,        Who fell on red flames, as on flowers cold;        But we, Thy poets, in a different fire,        And…

THE MERCHANT KNIGHT. A Romance translated from the Portuguese of Gonsalo Fernandez Trancoso. (1585).     Scarcely anything appears to be known of the life of Gonsalo…

BLINDNESS.         Since I have learned Love’s shining alphabet,        And spelled in ink what’s writ in me in flame,        And borne her sacred image richly set        Here in my…

POOR LITTLE MRS. VILLIERS.     “Where is little Mrs. Villiers” demanded Miss Hooley. The question was prefaced by a disconcerting gaze directed towards the new-comer in…

THE GENIUS OF POPE.     It can be easily shown that although the Restoration inaugurated in England an age of prose, yet the position of poetry…