Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), April 12, 1845, vol. 1, no. 15, p. ???-???


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SHELLEY’A GRAVE AND OTHER POEMS. By John Tomlin.

A very neat and unpretending volume, containing much of the truest poetry. We have space only to give an extract from the leading piece of the collection:

What a silence fills the sky

As they build that altar high, —

Silence, wraps the deep;

Night is solemnn, earth is still

Echo, on the lonely hilt,

Yields herself to sleep.

With a never-caving strain

Murmurs drowsily the main;

And the sea-birds there,

Have a chaunt o’er him that died

In his beauty and his pride,

Child of Genius — child of Care!


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Notes:

This review was attributed as being by Poe by W. D. Hull.

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