Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sonnets, Reflective and Descriptive: And Other Poems
Over the fair field of descriptive and re?ective poetry it is my delight to wander. I would rather be a worshipper at this shrine of the Muses than journey through realms whose altitudes I may never attain, or dream of the loftier visions of philosophy, which I may never realize. If I can reach the recesses of the heart by one sketch of nature's ever-varying aspect, - strike one chord on that harp which slumbereth not by night ndr by day, -prolong one note inspired by the harmony which dwells around us, - or gladden the soul by one re?ection ere its shadow sink beneath the ceaseless surges of time, - then so far am I a.
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