The Love Poems of Louis Edited (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Love Poems of Louis EditedTo and about whom the greater number were written might see them in print. Or it may rather have been the desire that our united country, whose welfare had been dear to his dreams, should hold of a steadfast ad mirer and critic some other trace besides the tombstone that stands white and raw in a quiet old village looking seaward across the Hempstead marshes. He wrote severe things, which I have not thought worth while to print, of his country and the commonplace yet singu lar folk thereof. But his love for the woman who helped no little to bring him to his grave was not un like that for his own land. He adored her but hated what he thought were her faults. And he was guileless enough to tell her so. But Iconfess that some of his verses seem to me unjust. His feeling likewise for the Church in which he was baptized, but not buried, was of a piece with this. He loved the Church of Rome. Yet the things he said of the Church and her adminis trators were so severe that in our talks the Protestant was generally found her champion and defender. Sin gular contradiction! One exclaims. And yet - is it so singular? Are not most of us doing something quite as fantastic and contradictory? There is everything else to say about Louis himself, his wit, his character, his charm and there is great temptation to discuss his verses. But this introduction is already too long, those who will care for his work at all will prefer to make their own criticisms and draft their own commentary, a friend often harms by praising unduly.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.