The Poetry of the Period

admirers Alfred Austin Algernon Charles Swinburne angel Anthony Trollope Arnold assertion bards beautiful blank verse Browning Browning's Byron child compositions confess creed critic divine doubt Dream Dream of Gerontius E. S. Dallas earth English ESSAYS feel feminine muse garden genius golden half-words Harris Harris's heart heaven Homer Idylls imagination Lady of Pain Leaves of Grass less light literary literature living Lyric masculine matter Matthew Arnold mean mind Morning Land Morris mountain natural never o'er once opinion Paracelsus passage perhaps period poem poet poet's poetical poetry produce prose quoted reader remarkable Roman Catholic Rossetti scarcely sense Shakespeare Shelley sing singer song Sordello soul speak spirit strain strong sublime supposed sweet Swinburne Swinburne's synthesist Tennyson thee theological things thou thought tion to-day truth turn utter verse voice Walt Whitman whilst words Wordsworth write written