Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Unforgotten and Other Poems
This modest little volume contains a selection from the poems of one who was a great admirer of nature and loved to contem plate it in its varied forms. She had an eye for its beauties and an ear for its music. It was her delight to be in the country and her contributions to various periodicals breathe with her spirit, and show how well she could look through nature up to nature's God. Upon removing to New Haven in the spring of 1848, it was to her the most painful part of the change that she must leave behind a dear home out of which she had learned to gaze with a poet's eye upon the hills and mountains around. Her first re turn visit in June of the same year, awoke all the finer feelings of her heart and she penned the lines, to My old Home in the Country, which were published at the time and copied into several periodicals. Many of the other effusions have been printed in Magazines and different publications. The scenes are for the most part laid in Cheshire, Conn., where the writer, though born on St. Simon's Island, Georgia. 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.
