250 THE ISLAND OF NANTtJCKET. 



abroad, containing an account in verse of the experi- 

 ences of Charles Murphy during a whaling voyage. 



Something over a quarter of a century ago Miss 

 Lucy C. Starbuck made a collection of about fifty poems, 

 written by natives of the island, to which the felicitous 

 title of " Seaweeds from the Shores of Nantucket" was 

 given. This little volume was published by Crosby, 

 Nichols & Co., of Boston, and a copy of it can be 

 found at the Athenaeum. From " Seaweeds " came 

 the beautiful poem " The Music of the Tower," before 

 quoted. This poem, and the one entitled " Musings " 

 by George Howland Folger, a well-known merchant 

 of Boston, are perhaps the best in the book, although 

 some of the others are worthy a high place. 



Miss Anna Gardner's book of poems has many good 

 things in it; and although all might not agree with her 

 in regard to certain questions which are now being 

 agitated, yet on the whole her book can be read with 

 pleasure and profit. Want of space forbids the inser- 

 tion of more than a few lines; the first are from " Na- 

 ture." 



" 'Tis now the still and hallowed hour of noon, 

 Not e'en a sound disturbs the deep serene; 

 Hushed is the brook's subdued, low undertone, 



And checkered sunshine slants the rocks between. 

 Throughout the woods a noontide slumber reigns, 

 As hushed to list to sweet angelic strains." 



Spring Flowers. 

 Now bursts the crocus from its night of sleep, 



The daffodil and hyacinth we see; 

 While o'er the plain the trailing laurels creep 

 'Midst the anemone. 



