=Buchanan=, Robert. The Ballad of Judas Iscariot. (In Stedman's Victorian Anthology.)
The beauty is chiefly in the central idea of forgiveness, but the workmanship of this composition has also a very remarkable beauty, a Celtic beauty of weirdness, such as we seldom find in a modern composition touching religious tradition.--_Lafcadio Hearn._
The body of Judas Iscariot Lay stretched along the snow. 'Twas the soul of Judas Iscariot Ran swiftly to and fro.
=Carleton=, William. Sir Turlough, or The Churchyard Bride. (In Stopford Brooke's A Treasury of Irish Poetry.)
The churchyard bride is accustomed to appear to the last mourner in the churchyard after a burial, and, changing its sex to suit the occasion, exacts a promise and a fatal kiss from the unfortunate lingerer.
He pressed her lips as the words were spoken, Killeevy, O Killeevy! And his banshee's wail--now far and broken-- Murmured "Death" as he gave the token By the bonny green woods of Killeevy.
=Chatterton=, Thomas. The Parliament of Sprites.
"The Parliament of Sprites" is an interlude played by Carmelite friars at William Canynge's house on the occasion of the dedication of St. Mary Redcliffe's. One after another the "antichi spiriti dolenti" rise up and salute the new edifice: Nimrod and the Assyrians, Anglo-Saxon ealdormen and Norman knights templars, and citizens of ancient Bristol.--_H. A. Beers._
The thing attempted in "Christabel" is the most difficult of execution in the whole field of romance--witchery by daylight--and the success is complete.--_John Gibson Lockhart._
About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white.
=Cortissoz=, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson. On Kingston Bridge. (In Stedman's American Anthology.)
'Twas all souls' night, and to and fro The quick and dead together walked, The quick and dead together talked, On Kingston bridge.
=Crawford=, Isabella Valancy. The Mother's Soul. (In John Garvin's Canadian Poets and Poetry.)
Another elaborate variation on the theme of the return of a mother from her grave to rescue her children. Miss Crawford's mother does not go as far as the ghost in Robert Buchanan's "Dead Mother," who not only makes three trips to assemble her neglected family, but manages to appear to their delinquent father, to his great discomfort and the permanent loss of his sleep.