Poems. By Speranza (Lady Wilde). (James Duffy.)—There is some- thing
very pleasant about a lady's poetical sedition. It is so very ram- pant Of course Lady Wilde is a firm believer in the theory that Ireland would have been benefited by a prohibition of the export of grain in the famine year.
"What see you in the offing?
Stately ships to bear our food away amid the strangers' scoffing." The "our food" is deliciously Irish, and so is the poetical idea that the seamen in the grain brig, who would probably be the only strangers there, were acting out of hate, and would jeer the Irishmen on the quay. The verses are, however, really rhythmical, and eloquent, and vigorous, and red-hot with partizanship. The political verses are much the best. The merely literary poems and translations would hardly have attracted attention.
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