Verses From a Vagrant Muse: Joseph Dana Miller (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Verses From a Vagrant Muse: Joseph Dana Miller

Wells were drilled and a marvelous yield Incited the reckless spirit of gain, The thirst of avarice; nights revealed The uneasy heart and the aching brain. Of lives crushed out in that mad pursuit Of piteous moans, and prayers unheard. And lives of women trod underfoot, The voice of rumor says never a word.

Yonder, over that wooded cove, A young girl sprang in her wild despair, Onto the rocks, with a cry that clove The heavy, humid, unwilling air; Dead leaves fell pattering to the ground, The sky was calm, and the air came cool, When in the morning. Her face was found, Framed dead and whitely above the pool.

On Saturday nights, the tavern's din Is frightful as noises that come from hell And wild-faced women go reeling in; Outside are the stars and the dreamy dell.

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Excerpt from Verses From a Vagrant Muse: Joseph Dana Miller

The Verses herewith presented were written for the author's personal gratification, and not because he anticipated either fame or fortune from their publication. They comprise contributions made to amateur and professional journals, the best known of which among the latter are the Boston Transcript, Godey's Lady's Book, Kate Field's Washington, Henry George's Standard, and Puck. The author asks no favors for them at the hands of the critics, saving only the recognition of such merit as the most rigid discrimination can grant. There is, perhaps, a great deal here that is not worthy of preservation between covers, but it is not reasonable to suppose that the author shares that view, deeming even the poorest of them not unworthy of being temporarily preserved in a form that shall recall the gratification he experienced in penning them, which gratification, it may not be entirely impossible, was somewhere shared by somebody who read them.

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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.