The tearless grief of the young wife when her dead

warrior is brought home is another example of extreme emo

tion, so characteristic of the Victorian poetry.

HOME THEY BROUGHT HER WARRIOR TEAD.

From "THE PRINCESS."

By Tennyson.

"Ilome they brought her warrior dead:
She nor swooned, nor uttered cry;
All her maidens, watching, said,

'She must weep or she will die.

Then they praised him, soft and low,
Called him worthy to be loved,
Truest friend and noblest foe;

Yet she neither spoke nor moved.

Stole a maiden from her place,
Lightly to the warrior stept,
Took the face-cloth from the face,
Yet she neither moved nor wept.

Like a summer tempest came her tears,
'Sweet my child, I live for thee.

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The story of angelic ministry told by the Eliza

bethans is beautiful and shows a spirit of faith and love.

"ANGELIC MINISTRY" by Edmund penser. Songs of Three

Centuries page 7.

With this compare a sad poem which tells

of the absence of angelic ministry.

See the touching

little poem called "THE LITTLE FAIR SOUL" by Menella B.

Smedley. (Vic. An. page 219.)

In the Elizabethan Are it was not uncommon to iden

tify real persons with fictitious characters. This is

seen in the poem on the death of Robert Earl of Huntingt on.

ROBIN WOOD'S DIRGE

By Munday and Chettle.

(Schelling pare 92)

"Veep, weep, ye woodmen, wail,
Your hands with sorrow wring;
Your master Robin Hood lies dead,
There fore sigh as you sing.

Here lies his primer and his beads,
His bent bow and his arrows keen,
His good sword and his holy cross:
Now cast on flowers fresh and green.

And, as they fall, shed tears and say
Well-a well-a-day, well-a, well-a-day:
Thus cast ye flowers fresh, and sing,

And on to Wakefield take your way.

In the above song we have a ballad stanza with its

que int refrain "Well-a, well-a-day, " which is peculiarly