Author: Amanda Weston

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Published: 2015-07-12

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781331274186

Excerpt from May-Flowers: A Selection of Poems May flowers are too often fragile and short lived; shrinking before the chill blast of early Spring, they fade away and their beauty and fragrance soon disappear. Not so the literary boquet now in the hand of the reader. Its beauty is not merely that of form or color. Its fragrance is something more than a grateful incense wasting its sweetness on the desert air. It is beautiful in the variety and fitness of the truths expressed - it is fragrant with pure affection and elevating sentiment. Such beauty and such fragrance are ever during. The author's preface indicates a degree of modesty in the statement of the origin and the aim of these poems, which is itself fragrant and attractive. Few know what emphasis should be placed on the expression "the active duties of life," to which she refers. The "fragments of time redeemed" therefrom, consisted frequently of the hurrying minutes that lay between the slow weary hours of consant toil. Unless the publisher has much mistaken the merit of these poems, they will surely meet a hearty welcome to the hearthstone of many a family, and furnish happy hours of pure and intelligent enjoyment. 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.