Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Selection of Poems
This little collection of Poems by the late Elizabeth S. Lucas, of Hitchin, is affectionately dedicated to all those who loved and esteemed her.
It is chie?y intended for circulation amongst her relations and friends.
The Frontispiece forms part of a family group of four generations, photographed in 1896, of which the central figures are E. S. L. And her great-grandson Lucas Gilbert Thompson, to whom a sonnet is addressed.
Many of the Poems are taken by kind permission from the Friends' Quarterly Examiner, to which she was a frequent contributor, and others are inserted which have not hitherto been published.
A devotional spirit largely enters into most of her Poems, whilst her love of Nature, in all its varied aspects, and of animals, with descriptions of people and places.
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