There is in the verse a ceaseless melody and perfect finish.
At times there is "the easy elegance of Catullus", always his delight,
and a metrical translation of whose poems he had completed.

Rare endowment with broad culture is evinced in the high intellectual level
always maintained; and the evenness of quality that is always
of the mountain top. He always knows his power, and its range.
His song is always clear and true.

Moreover, with a universality of poetic feeling, he has struck every chord,
and always with a keen sensibility and delicacy of natural instinct.
Among the finest poems, how wide is this range and varied this power!

"The Vision of Poesy", his longest work, written in youth,
essaying the mission and the philosophy of the poetic art,
has some lofty passages, and all the promise of his later power,
felicity, and melody.

"A Year's Courtship" is in its glow, and grace, and music
the perfection of classic art.

The dainty voluptuousness in a "Serenade" kindles with
the luxuriousness of the South.

His "Pr|aeceptor Amat" is warm with the breath of rapturous feeling,
and rich with the fragrance of flowers.

"Ethnogenesis", "the birth of the nation", is regarded by some
his greatest poem. It is prophecy linked with the hope and aspiration
of the newborn nation of the South. A permanent image