It is a place of fugitive resort, an heterogeneous assemblage of sea-mews and stock-brokers, Amphitrites of the town, and misses that coquet with the Ocean.

Bann'd be those musty mews, where we have spent Our youthful days in paled languishment!

Following are a few selected lines to show the spirit of the poem: The hail flew in showers about me; and there I heard only The roar of the sea, ice-cold waves, and the song of the swan; For pastime the gannets' cry served me; the kittiwakes' chatter For laughter of men; and for mead drink the call of the sea mews.

A sound of street music entered the room through the open ventilators, for a band had begun to play in the stable mews at the back of the housethe March from Tannhäuser.

Odd as it may seem that a German band should twice within the space of an hour enter the same mews and play Wagner, it was nevertheless the fact.

Sea-mews and cormorants flew about him restlessly, as if anxious to warn him of his danger.

Then shall this Mount Of Paradise by might of Waves be mov'd Out of his Place, pushed by the horned Flood With all his Verdure spoil'd, and Trees adrift Down the great River to the opning Gulf, And there take root, an Island salt and bare, The haunt of Seals and Orcs and Sea-Mews clang.

From thyme-sweet pastures grey with dews The milch-cows came with swinging tails: And whirling high the wailing mews Screamed

"Done," repeated the man, pulling a handful of silver from his pocket, and assuming the broom at once to enter on his professional labours, ere Puckers had recovered from her astonishment, or Buster could vanish round the corner in the direction of a neighbouring mews.

He was gazing miles away, through the window, through the opposite houses, their offices, their washing-ground, and the mews at the back.

And that's how the War Dogs' Party came to be formed, for when they heard how the land lay some of the influential dogs in our neighbourhood called a meeting in Jorrocks' Mews and elected me chairman.

An' then she says she'd begun to think pretty much that way herself, an' that she had a sister a-livin' down in the Sussex Mews, back of Gresham Terrace, Camberwell Square, Hankberry Place, N.W. by N., an' she thought she might as well go there an' stay while we was here.

" National Gallery and Record Office, on the site of the King's Mews, Charing Cross.

For as the second gate, which is in iron, is approached, your thoughts of rural things are rudely scattered by sight of what seems a London mews.

Murder in the mews.

Britannia mews.

Murder in the mews.

Murder in the mews, by Agatha Christie.

Britannia mews.

You may remember that a ring is formed and the person within the ring who is "it," kneels before someone in the circle and mews or purrs appealingly three times successively.

Then shall this Mount Of Paradise by might of Waves be mov'd Out of his Place, pushed by the horned Flood With all his Verdure spoil'd, and Trees adrift Down the great River to the opning Gulf, And there take root, an Island salt and bare, The haunt of Seals and Orcs and Sea-Mews clang.

The Warrants were these: From the Royal Mews: A waggon with the draught horses, delivered by command without fee.

Each was like a Druid rock, Or like a spire of land that stands apart Cleft from the main and wall'd about with mews.

I stepped out blinking into a covered passage paved with cobbles and apparently leading down to a mews; but it was all in darkness, and I had no time to make any detailed observations, as the carriage had drawn up opposite a side door which was open and in which stood a woman holding a lighted candle.

Different species of birds swarm in these waters: ducks, geese, swans, divers, gulls, sea-mews, and countless similar.

" This sonnet, by Edward Hovell-Thurlow, second Baron Thurlow (1781-1829), an intense devotee of Sir Philip Sidney's muse, was a special favourite with Lamb.

But, although even Ben Jonson addresses him as "the delight of Phoebus and each Muse," we are too far beyond the power of his social presence and the influence of his public utterances to feel that admiration of his poems which was so largely expressed during his lifetime.

It is in a measure distressing that, while I grant with all my heart the claim of his "Muse's white sincerity," the taste inI do not say ofsome of his best poems should be such that I will not present them.

It is but fair to receive his own testimony concerning himself, offered in these two lines printed at the close of his Hesperides: To his book's end this last line he'd have placed: Jocund his muse was, but his life was chaste.

His muse is seldom other than graceful, even when her motions are grotesque, and he is always a gentleman, which cannot be said of his master.

Say, heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein Afford a present to the infant God?

PROLOGUE Our Muse describes no lover's passion, No wretched father, no unthrifty son!

As that august muse, however, does not bury herself with personal details, we will briefly refer to this occurrence.

To see that virtue should despised be, Of such as first were raised for virtue's parts, And now broad-spreading like an aged tree, Let none shoot up that nigh them planted be; O let not these, of whom the muse is scorned, Alive or dead be by the muse adorned.

To see that virtue should despised be, Of such as first were raised for virtue's parts, And now broad-spreading like an aged tree, Let none shoot up that nigh them planted be; O let not these, of whom the muse is scorned, Alive or dead be by the muse adorned.

Before his works are prefixed several copies of verses in his praise, with which we shall not trouble the reader, but conclude the life of this great man, with the following sonnet from his works, as a specimen of the delicacy of his muse.

It would be hard to fancy the intensity of the shock which the school of Pope would have felt on reading this statement of the poor plowman's poetic creed: "Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, though hamely in attire, May touch the heart.

The more beautiful and genial inspirations of his muse were looked upon but as lucid intervals between the paroxysms of an inherent malignancy of nature.

He was enthusiastically received by the Greeks of Argostoli, the principal port, but deemed it prudent to remain there until he could get further intelligence from Corfu and Missolonghi,visiting, in the interval, some of the neighboring islands consecrated by the muse of Homer.

His muse had no objection to a russet attire; but she turned with disgust from the finery of Guarini, as tawdry and as paltry as the rags of a chimney-sweeper on May-day.

Amidst these that fair Muse was placed, like the chaste lady of the Masque, lofty, spotless, and serene, to be chattered at, and pointed at, and grinned at, by the whole rout of Satyrs and Goblins.

To complete the chief incidents in the poet's personal career, we may here record that while Tennyson acquired another home at Aldworth, Surrey,where he died Oct. 6, 1892, followed some four years later by his wife,his happiest days were spent at Farringford, the pilgrimage place of many eminent worshippers of the poet's muse, where was dispensed an unostentatious but open-handed and genial British hospitality.

Witch and imps in a churchInspired PriestessFusseli's night-mareCave of Thor and subterranean NaïadsMedea and her childrenPalmira weeping Group of wild creatures drinkingPoison tree of JavaTime and hoursLady shot in battleWounded deerHarlotsLaocoon and his sonsDrunkards and diseasesPrometheus and the vultureLady burying her child in the plague Moses concealed on the NileSlavery of the AfricansWeeping Muse CANTO IV.

Superficial thinkers have loosely answered, "Inspiration," implying, (according to the literal meaning of the word, "to breathe in"), that some mysterious external force (called by the ancients, "A Muse") enters into the mind of the author with a special revelation.

Who would in such a gloomy state remain Longer than nature craves, when every Muse And every blooming pleasure wait without, To bless the wildly devious morning walk?" Exquisite indeed!

But since it is an unquestionable fact that we are thus totally depraved in taste and feeling, why don't some of our bards, to whom the Muse has not been propitious in other departments of metrical composition, and who, to be blunt, are good for nothing else, such as , or , and many others you know, come out here among the marble-cutters and open an epitaph-shop?

I adjure thee return, By Fielding's best wig, and the ashes of Sterne, Appear at the call of my muse.

Pretty, surely, 'twere to see By young Love old Time beguil'd; While our sportings are as free As the muse's with the child.

Then the too frequent preparations for a Newgate executionbut enough of such details; it is the muse of Mr. Crabbe that alone could do them justice.

He will not allow you to muse over these things, which are reasonably real and true, but will tell you the most marvellous stories, which you cannot believe.