Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“ It is curious in all its history to observe, that poetry is a flower which is born and flourishes on what would seem its most ungenial soil. Certainly our English verse is the last accomplishment we should have expected in the youthful Hindoo.
Kasiprasad Ghosh is of high Braminical extraction, and of independent fortune. At the age of fourteen he was sent to the Anglo-Indian College, where he made rapid progress. He soon shewed a marked predilection for our literature ”

“ In the pride of her beauty, how swiftly she flies:
Like a white-winged spirit through topaz-paved skies!
Gold river! gold river! thy bosom is calm,
And o'er thee the breezes are shedding their balm ”

“ At Calcutta, Kasiprasad Ghosh is universally beloved and admired: and we cannot but think that a vast field lies before him. His native literature is full of subjects for poetry of the highest order; subjects, however, requiring much fine taste and much judgment, which could only be acquired by a knowledge of European literature. Now our Indian poet has the material, the talent, and the cultivation; what, therefore, may not be expected from him?
The following little poem will give an idea of his fervid imagination and Oriental style.
THE BOATMEN'S SONG TO GANGA.
Gold river! ”