Poems and Stories in Verse (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Poems and Stories in VerseThe poems in this little volume were written in the scant leisure hours, scattered through busy years of pen-work in more prosaic lines. Only one of them was ever offered to a publisher, those that have been in print appeared in the periodicals I was editing at the time when they were written. Writing them was to me a recreation and a pleasure. They were spontan eous, springing from the feeling, thought or fancy of the hour. Some of them are sombre, but life has more shadow than sunshine, and it is in shadowed ways that we gather the deepest lessons of life, as more fragrant dew is found in the heart of ¿owers that bloom in the shade.Some of the poems have been widely copied and some of the stories in verse seem to have been prized as recitations. Such as they are, I offer these collected bits of verse to my friends, who have so often called for them with words of kindly praise, and to the pub lic, who may not be so generous in their estimate, say ing once more, that they are but as wild ¿owers, sown by the winds of fancy and feeling, between the furrows of more prosaic work in the field of daily duty.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.