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London Times.
"IT is the production of a
young man who has fought his way to the Temple-gate sword in hand. May
the summer morning be fair as the spring dawn is bright!"
Athenæum.
"IN him we have a genuine
songster. He has the true facility of creative life..... Few poems
in our recent outgrowth of poetic literature are finer than some of these
lover-verses...... We have quoted enough to show here that here is another poet,—and
one whose story and position as a teacher and preacher clothe him with
unusual interest."
Blackwood's Magazine.
"GERALD MASSEY
has already won for himself a considerable name in lyrical poetry.
He possesses a large share of the poet's stirring inspiration: he has within him
the soul of a poet. What he has already done—and
it is worthy of high praise—we take but as an installment of what he is
yet to
do."
Edinburgh Review.
"Mr. GERALD MASSEY'S
poems have already gone through several editions, and some of them deserve their
popularity. The most fastidious tastes will be most charmed with
such verses as those..... There is a real glow about all that Mr. Massey
writes."
London Quarterly Review.
"HIS love-poetry is very pure and
sweet, and frequently rivals the most genuine strains of Burns."
Spectator.
"THAT a man struggling through such
difficulties should write with a facility, a melody, an elegance of sentiment,
and a breath of thought, quite equal to any of our minor poets, and in these
respects not far short of writers scarcely to be reckoned as minor, is indeed
surprising."
Chamber's Journal.
"IF the extracts we have given do not
suffice to show the promise with which this volume abounds, we must plead guilty
to a misapprehension of what constitutes poetry of a high order, full of
originality and freshness of feeling."
Examiner.
"THIS book contains not a few lines and
passages which may be fairly called immortal verse. We give it our
best letters of recommendation."
New York Tribune.
"GERALD MASSEY
may anticipate a bright career among the modern masters of song..... None but
the sternest or most narrow-minded critics will doubt that Gerald Massey is born
for a poet. He possesses a teaming imagination, which luxuriates in
all the glories of the outward universe. Never before were the joys
of marriage life sung in such glowing strains."
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