Author: Alice BrothertonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332531646
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Excerpt from The Sailing of King Olaf, and Other Poems What is your art, o poet? Only to catch and to hold In a poor, frail world-mould A little of life; That the soul to whom you show it May say: "With truth it is rife, This poem - I lived it of old." Ah, the light wherein we read Must be the light of the past, Or your poem is nothing at best But an empty rhyme. And to summon back grief what need Of word of yours? - through all time It abides with us to the last. Sing to us of joy, then. Borrow Of life its happiest hours. Sing of love and hope, of flowers, Of laughter and smiles; But not too oft of sorrow! - The song that our grief beguiles Is the best, in this world of ours. 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.