Louisa Sarah Bevington
POEMS, LYRICS, AND SONNETS
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About the print version:
POEMS, LYRICS, AND SONNETS.
BY
L.S. BEVINGTON,
author of "Key-Notes," etc.
London:
Elliot Stock,
62, Paternoster Row, E.C. 1882.
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"It is not style or rhymes or a new image more or less that imports, but
sanity.... When life is true to the poles of nature, the streams of truth will
roll through us in song.... In good society, nay, among the angels in heaven, is
not everything spoken in fine parable, and not so servilely as it befell to the
sense?....
The solid men complain that the idealist leaves out the fundamental facts; the
poet complains that the solid men leave out the sky. To every plant there are
two powers; one shoots down as rootlet, and one upward as tree. You must have
eyes of science to see in the seed its nodes; you must have the vivacity of the
poet to perceive in the thought its futurities."
--EMERSON.
"BUT now I let the aching splendour go,
I dare not call the crownèd angels peers,
Henceforth! I am content to dwell below,
'Mid common joys, with humble smiles and tears,
Delighted in the sun and breeze to grow,
A child of human hopes and human fears."WATHEN MARK WILKS CALL.
"LEBEN ist jedoch des Lebens höchstes ZielUnd immer ist die arme Kunst gezwungen
Zu bettlen von des Lebens Ueberfluss."
(dedication)
Dedication.
TO C.A.V.
Not that the theme is worthy, nor the lay
Such as your heart would have, one time in three;
Yet, battling, I would chaunt of victory
All life's night through: though dubious dream of day
Scarcely suffices me to shed one ray
O'er the fierce field where you must fighting be;--
Yet you have brought a little sword ...
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