The Germ

No. 2. (Price One Shilling.) FEBRUARY, 1850.

With an Etching by James Collinson.

The Germ:

Thoughts towards Nature

In Poetry, Literature, and Art.


When whoso merely hath a little thought
Will plainly think the thought which is in him,
Not imaging another's bright or dim,
Not mangling with new words what others taught;
When whoso speaks, from having either sought
Or only found,--will speak, not just to skim
A shallow surface with words made and trim,
But in that very speech the matter brought:
Be not too keen to cry--" So this is all!--
A thing I might myself have thought as well,
But would not say it, for it was not worth!"
Ask : " Is this truth ?" For is it still to tell
That, be the theme a point or the whole earth,
Truth is a circle, perfect, great or small?

London :

AYLOTT & JONES, 8, PATERNOSTER ROW.


G. F. TUPPER, Printer, Clement's Lane, Lombard Street.




CONTENTS.


The Child Jesus: by James Collinson..............................49 
A Pause of Thought: by Ellen Alleyn..............................57
The Purpose and Tendency of Early 
Italian Art: by John Seward......................................58 
Song: by Ellen Alleyn............................................64
Morning Sleep: by Wm. B. Scott...................................65
Sonnet: by Calder Campbell.......................................68
Stars and Moon...................................................69
On the Mechanism of a Historical Picture: by F. Madox Brown......70
A Testimony: by Ellen Alleyn.....................................73
O When and Where: by Thomas Woolner..............................75
Fancies at Leisure: by Wm. M. Rossetti...........................76
The Sight Beyond: by Walter H. Deverell..........................79
The Blessed Damozel: by Dante G. Rossetti........................80
REVIEWS: "The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems:" by Wm. M. 
     Rossetti....................................................84



To Correspondents.


All persons from whom Communications have been received, and who have not been otherwise replied to, are requested to accept the Editor's acknowledgments.


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