Poems of Home and Country (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Poems of Home and Country (Classic Reprint) written by James A. Martling and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Poems of Home and Country In compiling a complete collection of the poems of James A. Martling, it has seemed best to include some written in college days, and at a still earlier period, which, I am confident, the author neither valued nor intended to republish; but they have not been excluded from this volume, - first, because of his early friends, by whom they were prized, and also for the reason that so many want to see what a poet wrote in his youthful days. Two or three of his later poems were unfinished, yet were too good to leave out. Some of his published poems have been pronounced "Modern Classics;" and the manner in which London Bridge has been received, - the grateful messages which have reached us from cultured critics like the following: - "How delightfully he sang! And with what moral uplift in his singing he occasionally smites some great note forth from the harpstrings. "'Turbulent our passions roll, Separating soul from soul.' "That is the storm-voice from the seas! "'But the common bond will break, If the strong forsake the weak.' "The old, old plaint from weary centuried time." 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.