A Minor Poet, and other Verse. By Amy Levy. (T.
Fisher Unwin.)—This is a second edition, containing two pieces not in- cluded in the first, but reproduced from an earlier volume. One is so significant of the author's tone of feeling, that we give it :— "Most wonderful and strange it seems, that I Who but a little time ago was twit High on the waves of passion and of pain, With aching heart and wildly throbbing brain, Who peered into the darkness, deeming vain All things there found if but one thing was lost, Thus calm and still and silent here should lie, Watching and waiting—waiting passively. The dark has faded, and before mine eyes Have long, grey flats expanded, dim and bare ; And through the changing guises all things wear, Inevitab:e Law I recognise ;
Yet in my heart a hidden feeling lies Which half a hope and half is a despair."
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