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Excerpt from As Twilight Falls, Poems
Of ali the Arts there is no other comparable to the Art of Literature, and the crown and flower of Literature is Poetry. Having always thought the Sonnet - although the least popular to be the most distinguished and the most exalted of all forms of English verse, I have devoted my literary life chiefly to its study and creation. I have published more than five hundred Sonnets in the Miltonic, and the true Guittonian form - besides a few showing structural innovations - and I have written, but not published, a large number of others. The task of creating this amount of Poetry, couched in that most intricate and difficult of forms can be adequately appreciated only by those who have attempted the work, and who have succeeded in doing it. In this contribution to Sonnet Literature over five hundred themes have been treated. The Sonnets in the present volume may be considered a further contribution to my other books in which poetry in this form appears At The Gates of Song The Slopes of Helicon The Fields of Dawn; Echoes of Greek Idyls; Castalian Days; The Fleeing Nymph; My Lady of Dream; Toward The Uplands; Flower and Thorn; and my Collected Sonnets. In addition to Sonnet creation, I have, at intervals, published over two hundred Lyrics, some of which are included in the present collection. This is my Last Book. Illness prevents me from doing more For the work which I have already done the most eminent Literary Authorities, and the magazines and journals of both this country and Great Britain have been exceptionally generous in their praise; and I feel, profoundly, my indebtedness to them. My note has been pure, and my hearers have been appreciative so that, in this parting hour, when, spiritually reminiscent, I dwell upon the years I have passed in close communion with the Muse, I feel that my worship has been reverential; and I exult in that I have left the sacred garland nu sullied on her brow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
