Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Poems and Translations
This edition of Dr. Marvin's Poems and Translations includes three separate books, pub lished at different times, together with a few later metrical compositions. Flowers of Song from Many Lands, being short poems and detached verses gathered from various languages, and ren dered into English, is contained in this edition. It first appeared in 1902. One thousand copies were printed, of which sixty-three contained a portrait of the author on parchment, and were numbered. The book is now out of print, the entire very limited edition having been sold some time ago. A Book of Quatrains is also here included. It was first published in 1909, but has since been revised and enlarged. Most of the original poems in this edition appeared in 1907, but they have since then been revised and rear ranged. 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.
