Married Miss Stone. No cards.”
And many an artist, since that day,
Has found his sighs love-laden
Warm into animated clay
The coldest “marble maiden.”
——:o:——
Arundines Cami sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium Lusus Canori. Henricus Drury, A.M. Cambridge. Parker and Son. 1841.
This contains Latin versions of all the most celebrated short English poems, including Gray’s Elegy, the Burial of Sir John Moore, and some nursery rhymes.
Before leaving the Classics mention must be made of a curious branch of poetry entitled Macaronic verse. Examples of this, and many of them very ingenious, are to be found in Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities selected by William T. Dobson. London. Chatto and Windus, 1882.
Octave Delepierre also wrote several essays on the subject, the principal being entitled Littérature Macaronique.