Masque of Death, and Other Poems (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Masque of Death, and Other Poems It is with a regretful sense of a broken flight, a race half run, a song silenced in the midst, that I look upon these my collected verses, wrought, for the most part, in the brief and infrequent intervals of uncongenial and imperative labors. I feel that they constantly bear the impress of the weariness and depression which they were intended, in some measure at least, to relieve. This is not said by way of excuse for their shortcomings, which I perceive, perhaps more clearly than another can. To offer ones productions to criticism, and then deprecate it, is an affectation which I shall not be guilty of. But I shall be grateful if, with the perception of their faults, shall be united some appreciation of the endeavor which called them into being. That, I know, has a value and a worth of its own. If it win for me some degree of kindly recognition among thoughtful readers, my hopes will be more than fulfilled. 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.