Oliver Cromwell"[...] This Mr. Donne is a very good poet, but he's rather hard to understand. I suppose that is being eighty, too. Mr. Herrick is very simple. John Hampden sent me some copies from a friend who knows Mr. Herrick. I like them better than John does. (She takes up a manuscript book and reads: ) Lord, Thou hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell; A little house, whose humble roof[...]." |