human
It gives me pleasure to see the poems of B. F. Taylor, issued by your house in a form worthy of their merit. Such pieces as the 'OLD VILLAGE CHOIR,' 'THE SKYLARK,' 'THE VANE ON THE SPIRE,' and 'JUNE,' deserve their good setting.
gpt
I have spent many hours over your book. The 'OLD TIME PICTURE' is crowded with verbal felicities, and the closing portion of it as soul-stirring as the voice of a trumpet. * * 'A WINTER'S PSALM' stands out on these pages with the claim of being your most perfect poem. I have read it again and again. * * It has a natural unfolding; it is at home in its rhythm; it is symmetrical; it is dignified; it is very nearly perfect.
human
Of all the Christmas poems in reach of our readers, let us commend as without compeer the thrilling, tender, and most musical poem, 'THE CHILD AND THE STAR.'
gpt
A poet he is in the true sense; a singer of songs so full of tenderness and melody that their memory lingers like a delicious fragrance. Several of his lyrics have become classic. * * His 'RIVER OF TIME' is one of the most perfect poems in the language, original in conception, full of beautiful imagery, grandly sonorous in rhythm.
human
Mr. Taylor is a word-painter unsurpassed in America. His style is rare, quaint, full of images as a brook of pebbles, and his rhythm waves and undulates as softly and as sensuously as the wind that sways the summer wheat. * * In the fields he sings the songs of the spring, and the passion flowers, of the roses, and the summer time. His are the birds'-notes. He interprets the quaint, low tune of the busy wren, the soaring snatches of the sky-lark, the liquid language of the oriole, the ever-sad and questioning call of the partridge, and the pheasant's everlasting monotone. He makes beautiful pictures. He gives one champagne to drink--strong, effervescing, delightful.