Than the soft star that in the azure East
Trembles with pity o'er bright bleeding day
Was his frail soul.
[Footnote: _A Life Drama_.]

Arnold, likewise, in _Thyrsis_, follows the poetic tradition in
thus vaguely accounting for Clough's death: it of course has left its
traces in the realm of poetry. But here the casualties appear to be
light,--in fact, it is a disappointment to the suffragist to find most
of the blows struck by the female aspirant for glory, with but few
efforts to parry them on the part of the male contingent. Furthermore,
in verse concerned with specific woman poets, men have not failed to
give them their due, or more. From Miriam [Footnote: See Barry Cornwall,
_Miriam_.] and Sappho, [Footnote: Southey, _Sappho_; Freneau, _Monument
of Phaon_; Kingsley, _Sappho_, Swinburne, _On the Cliffs, Sapphics,
Anactoria;_ Cale Young Rice, _Sappho's Death Song;_ J. G. Percival,
_Sappho_; Percy Mackaye, _Sappho and Phaon_; W. A. Percy, _Sappho in
Lenkos._] to the long list of nineteenth century female poets--Mrs.
Browning, [Footnote: Browning, _One Word More, Preface to The Ring and
the Book;_ James Thomson, B. V., _E. B. B._; Sidney Dobell, _On the
Death of Mrs. Browning._] Christina Rossetti, [Footnote: Swinburne,
_Ballad of Appeal to Christina. Rossetti, New Year's Eve, Dedication to
Christina Rossetti._] Emily Bronte, [Footnote: Stephen Phillips, _Emily
Bronte._] Alice Meynell, [Footnote: Francis Thompson, _Sister Songs,
on her Photograph, To a Poet Breaking Silence._] Felicia Hemans,
[Footnote: L. E. Maclean, _Felicia Hemans._] Adelaide Proctor,
[Footnote: Edwin Arnold, _Adelaide Anne Proctor._] Helen Hunt,
[Footnote: Richard Watson Gilder, _H. H._] Emma Lazarus
[Footnote: _Ibid., To E. Lazarus._]--one finds woman the subject of
complimentary verse from their brothers. There is nothing to complain of