Rose and Bessie's Picture, and The Rhyme of the Wedding Ring. His last poems, The Poet's Vision and A New Year Greeting, are poems keyed to a minor and sadder strain than are his usual productions. These shorter poems are however, all, gems of their kind, and show the versatility and real poetic genius of their author, faultless in metre and graceful in style, and yet strong and polished as they are, they are but his minor poems. It is, how ever, by his ballads that Mr. Welty's capacity as a writer must be judged, and the verdict of posterity as to his place as a poet must be based upon his more serious compositions, and so based, we feel the conclusion that this verdict will be, that of the younger generation of American poets, those of the period between the '7os and the '9os he has indeed had few peers and certainly no Superiors.

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