Among them were such diverse poems as _Pippa Passes_; _A Blot in the 'Scutcheon_; _Saul_; _The Pied Piper of Hamelin_; _My Last Duchess_; _Waring_.

I only mention a few (all different in note, subject and manner from one another), in order to mark the variety and range of imaginative power displayed in this wonderful set of little books.

The Bells of poetry's music, hung side by side with the golden Pomegranates of thought, made the fringe of the robe of this high priest of song.

Rarely have imagination and intellect, ideal faith and the sense which handles daily life, passion and quietude, the impulse and self-mastery of an artist, the joy of nature and the fates of men, grave tragedy and noble grotesque, been mingled together more fully--bells for the pleasure and fruit for the food of man.
Yet, on the whole, they fell dead on the public.

A few, however, loved them, and all the poems were collected in 1849.