VI. Sonnet for a Picture.
VII. Nephelidia.
All these poems display wonderful power and choice of language, with a perfect mastery of the most difficult forms of metre, such as only a practised poet could achieve.
The Nineteenth Century for May, 1880, contained another of the Laureate's vague rhapsodical poems, entitled De Profundis, of which all the meaning was as well expressed in the following parody as in the original:—
"Awfully deep, my boy, awfully deep,
From that great deep before our world begins;
Awfully deep, my boy, awfully deep,
From that true world within the world we see,