His elegiac poetry is strewn with this mannerism "as thickly
as daisies in April grass : —

On the Md street /freaks the flank day.*

The breaker, freaking on the foach.f

And east and west, without a breath,
Mixt their dim /ights, /ike life and death,
To broaden into foundless day.+

Here she brought her harp, and flung
A oallad to the frightening moon. §

Ere childhood's flaxen ringlet turned
To flack and flown on kindred flow. |I

and elsewhere : —

The »zoan of doves in i#zwze»20rial elms,
And ffrar»zurings of innumerable bees. IT

The sea.,
The jilent sapphire jpangled marriage ring of the land.**

The jhrill edged shriek of a mother divide the
shuddering night. +t

Zive /oyal to the /east wish of the Queen. ++

The river sloped
To plunge in cataract, shattering on flack flocks
A fleadth of thunder. §§

* " In Memoriam," vii. 1T " The Princess. "

t "The Princess." ** "Maud."

+ " In Memoriam,'' xciv. tf Ibid.
§ Ibid., lxx. XX "Guinevere."

|l Ibid., lxxxviii. §§ "The Princess."



286 ESTIMATE OF MODERN ENGLISH POETS.
