Poems (Truesdell)

"The sentiment that runs through the whole work, is elevating and instructive. There is a sweet spirit and depth of imagination in every sentence, that at once, places the authoress in the front rank of the first poets of the age."

"For the first time, we have seen this unpretending collection of poems, the production of one of Ohio's own daughters. They are chaste and natural in style. Many of the pieces abound in patriotic, and some in humorous sentiment. "

"It is certainly a work of high merit, and one which should be liberally patronized by all."

"The gifted authoress is endowed with a clear perception of the real and the true. Many passages of the work evince a substantial appreciation of the 'poets' art; and bear the unmistakable impress of a vigorous intellect."

"That the book possesses high poetic merit we must allow,—this, by the way, is the concession of our judgment—not the mere mouth-praise of gallantry for the sex. Her style is simple, pure and sweet, tinged with a melancholy spirit, which is often rather a charm to poetry than a defect."

"We may add, that a mere hurried glimpse of two or three of its taste-fully printed pages, has impressed us favorably with the character and powers of the fair and fanciful authoress."

"The poems are smoothly and pleasantly written, and display considerable still."

"A softness, an ease, and a sweet simplicity pervades them, that will reach the unsullied heart and impart pleasure to the reader.

"'The Indian's Bride,' 'The Return,' 'The Parting,' ' The Contrast,' 'A Legend of the South,' and other pieces denote a genuine appreciation of what belongs to the art divine."

"Mrs. Truesdell has recently published a book of Poems, the chasteness of style, the purity of composition, and elevated sentiment of which challenge our admiration, and establish the fame of the fair authoress."

"There is beauty and purity written upon every page, elevating and instructive to the mind of those who delight to drink from the pure streams of poetic fancy and sentiment."

Mrs. Truesdell is fast becoming one of the popular authors of the day; four editions, in so short a time, is honor enough, and we hope money enough, until she gets out her fifth.

Right cheerfully did we drop pen and scissors and turn over this woman's work: and how refreshing it was to rest from our rude toil, and yield ourselves up to the influence of the gentle, the tender, the loving, as it breathes in the sweet simplicity of these natural, truthful, and beautiful heart-paintings.

Mrs. Truesdell's Poems are characterized by a simplicity, purity, and beauty.

We perceive by a western exchange, that the celebrated poetess, Mrs. Helen Truesdell, of Cincinnati, is about issuing a new volume, entitled, "Tales for my Pets;" it is her first prose work. Her volume published some two years since, had a large sale, and securely established her fame in that branch of literature. She is a woman of genius, and nothing from her pen, either prose or verse, can be flimsy or purposeless. We shall look for her new work with much interest.

A sweet spirit, wooing to the better land a depth of imagination winged and giving wings to the reader—patriotic streams, firing to a warmer love of country—humor to banish dull melancholy— a perception of the real and the true, without which rhyme is only rhyme a simple and pure style, reminding of the olden poets —sometimes a melancholy spirit, which adds brightness to the rest, as the clouds of an April day make the sunshine more bright and beautiful, and all impressed upon the soul, mind, and heart of the reader by a vigorous intellect, which never fails in its mission.